• The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Science & Intellectual Property in the Public Interest (SIPPI)
  In 2002 the Directorate for Science and Policy Programs initiated a multi-year project to bring a public interest perspective to science and intellectual property issues. Through this perspective the project examines the scope of the public domain in science, emphasizes equity in access to the benefits of science, and encourages broad participation in deliberations on matters of intellectual property policy.

• ActionAid is one of the UK's largest development agencies. ActionAid works in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean alongside poor and marginalised communities to help them recognise, promote and secure their basic rights, enhance their control over development work, and their ability to defend their interests.

• Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC), formerly Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI), is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights. To this end, ETC group supports socially responsible developments of technologies useful to the poor and marginalized and it addresses international governance issues and corporate power.
  

• Bioresources Development & Conservation Programme (BDCP) is a non-for-profit, non-governmental, knowledge based organization dedicated to creating innovative mechanisms for sustainable development that encompass the interface between health and the environment. The goal is to provide communities with the tools and information they need to preserve their self-sufficiency in an increasingly industrialized world, while retaining as much of their cultural framework as possible.

• Biological Innovation for Open Society (BIOS) is an initiative that will develop and validate a new means for the cooperative invention, improvement and delivery of biological technologies, drawing inspiration from the open source software movement to forge a 'protected commons' of knowledge and technology.

• Call of the Earth: Ancient Wisdom for Sustaining Culture, Livelihoods and Environments - a new, independent Indigenous Peoples' initiative on intellectual property policy.



• Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm founded in 1989 to strengthen international and comparative environmental law and policy around the world. CIEL provides a full range of environmental legal services in both international and comparative national law, including: policy research and publication, advice and advocacy, education and training, and institution building.



• Center for the Management of IP in Health R&D (MIHR)'s concern is with health in the developing countries and among the poor. It seeks to find constructive ways to promote collaboration among all sectors involved in improving access to needed drugs, vaccines, diagnostics and other important health technologies.



• Center for the Public Domain (CPD), a philanthropic foundation based in Durham, North Carolina, is dedicated to the preservation of a healthy and robust public domain . Its work is based on the conviction that new legal regimes, social institutions and transparent technologies must be created to reinforce the information commons. The Center uses as a slogan the famous Abraham Lincoln phrase: "Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, the former must prevail".



• Centre for the Application of Molecular Biology to International Agriculture (CAMBIA) is an international, independent non-profit research institute pioneering Biological Open Source (BiOS) and Informatics to support Patent Transparency. For more than a decade, CAMBIA has been creating new enabling tools to foster innovation and a spirit of collaboration in the life sciences.



• Consumer Project on Technology (CPT) focuses on issues concerning the production of and access to knowledge, including medical inventions, information and cultural goods, and other knowledge goods. Much of this work concerns intellectual property policy and practices, as well as different approaches to the production of knowledge goods and new incentive systems for investments in medical and agricutural inventions.



• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) "is a group of passionate people — lawyers, volunteers, and visionaries — working in the trenches, battling to protect your rights and the rights of web surfers everywhere. The dedicated people of EFF challenge legislation that threatens to put a price on what is invaluable; to control what must remain boundless".



• Environnement et Développement Durable (Envirodev). Ce site portail mobilise un réseau durable et actif sur les enjeux actuels de l'économie de l'environnement. Il constitue un système d'information solidaire francophone sur les négociations commerciales multilatérales. Il permet aux points de vue de la Communauté Francophone de pouvoir se faire connaître dans les débats internationaux.



• Foundation for International Enviornmental Law and Development (FIELD) is a non-governmental organisation bringing together public international lawyers committed to the promotion of environmental protection and sustainable development through law.



• Friends of the Earth (FoE) is a national environmental organization dedicated to preserving the health and diversity of the planet for future generations. As the largest international environmental network in the world with affiliates in 63 countries, Friends of the Earth empowers citizens to have an influential voice in decisions affecting their environment.



• Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit and (in some countries) charitable non-governmental organization dedicated to Free Software as in freedom.



• Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN) is an international non-governmental organisation which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge.



• Global Forum for Health Research is an organization focused on correcting the 10/90 gap by focusing research efforts on diseases representing the heaviest burden on the world's health and facilitating collaboration between partners in both the public and private sectors.
  
  
• Health Action International (HAI) is a non-profit, global network of health, development, consumer and other public interest groups in more than 70 countries working for a more rational use of medicinal drugs. HAI represents the interests of consumers in drug policy and believes that all drugs marketed should be acceptably safe, effective, affordable and meet real medical needs. HAI also campaigns for better controls on drug promotion and the provision of balanced, independent information for prescribers and consumers.

• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.



• Intellectual Property Institute (IP Institute)'s purpose can be described briefly as follows: "increasing the contribution of IP to economic well-being to timely, relevant and authoritative research and informing policy makers and public debate".



• Intellectual Property Watch: Transparency for Public Interest. Intellectual Property Watch reports on the interests and 'behind the scenes' dynamics which influence the design and implementation of intellectual property policies. A non-profit initiative, Intellectual Property Watch aims to increase transparency, accountability and fairness in global intellectual property policymaking.



• Intermediate Technology Development Group – aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries.



• International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI) is an international development organisation and think tank dedicated to promoting sustainable economic growth in all countries through the use of healthy intellectual property systems.


• IP Justice is an international civil liberties organization that promotes balanced intellectual property law in a digital world.



• IPDEV is an EU research project, led by Chatham House in the UK, to assess the impact of IPR rules on economic growth, environmental protection and social goals.



• Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Germany, is entrusted with the task of comparative research in the field of national, european and international intellectual and industrial property law, i.e. the legal field devoted to the promotion and protection of technical inventions, designs and models, works of literature, art and science, trade marks and trade names as well as fair competition. The Max Planck Institute is a research institute within the Max Planck Society For The Promotion Of Science, but does not undertake teaching or legal training.



• Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 80 countries.



• Oxfam is a confederation of twelve non-governmental organizations working together in more than 80 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice. The Oxfams are strategic funders of development projects; provide emergency relief in times of crisis; and campaign for social and economic justice.



• Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisors Inc. (PIIPA) is an international non-profit organization that makes intellectual property counsel available for developing countries and public interest organizations who seek to promote health, agriculture, biodiversity, science, culture, and the environment.



• Public-Sector Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture is an initiative by universities, foundations and non-profit research institutions to make agricultural technologies more easily available for development and distribution of subsistence crops for humanitarian purposes in the developing world and specialty crops in the developed world.
• Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) is a non-governmental organisation focusing on human rights, refugees, peace and disarmament, and trade and development.



• Science and Technology Programme of Harvard University (STPHU) has a Sub-Programme on Biotechnology and Globalization (SPBG). The overall aim of the SPBG is to undertake research, promote policy consultations and disseminate information on the implications of biotechnology for development.



• Sustain, "The alliance for better food and farming" advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity. They represent over 100 national public interest organisations working at international, national, regional and local level.



• UNU-IAS Biodiplomacy Initiative: The Biodiplomacy Initiative identifies a number of challenging research topics which are at the cutting edge of international debates relating to the links between biological and genetic resources and human, sovereign and cultural rights.



• UNU-INTECH conducts research and policy-oriented analysis and undertakes capacity building in the area of new technologies, the opportunities they present, the vectors for their generation and diffusion and the nature of their economic and social impact, especially in relation to developing countries.
  
  

• The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) is a new and unique not-for-profit foundation facilitating and promoting partnerships with public and private sector entities designed to remove many of the barriers that have prevented smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa from gaining access to existing agricultural technologies that could help improve food security and reduce poverty. AATF's operations are based in Africa and are led, managed and directed by Africans.
  
  
• Biowatch South Africa is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to monitoring and researching the implementation of South African obligations towards the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and related international agreements. The overall aims of the organisation are to research and monitor the commercialisation of biological diversity, to develop national and international networks to enable this, and to disseminate information on this topic.



• East African Regional Programme and Research Network for Biotechnology, Biosafety and Biotechnology Policy Development (BIO-EARN). The mission of the BIO-EARN Programme is to build capacity in biotechnology in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and promote appropriate research and related policies. The Programme aims to use biotechnology in a sustainable manner in order to help improve livelihoods, ensure food security, and safeguard the environment.



• Equinet, Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa, is a network of research, civil society and health sector organisations. Equinet's main aim is to build alliances leading to positive policies on health both the local and regional levels. This is achieved by disseminating information and stimulating an informed debate on equity in health in southern Africa.



• Innovative Lawyering is a Nairobi-based firm which conducts research, training, publishing and consulting in Intellectual property (Including Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property) in Kenya and Africa.



• Scientific & Industrial Research & Development Centre (SIRDC), Zimbabwe, is a National Technology Center which makes prudent use of the tools of Science and Technology to provide Research and Development services to industry to develop competitive products and services that meet international standards of quality. The overall goal of this mission is to enhance the competitiveness of industry and promote sustainable development of the country.



• Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Initiative (SEATINI) is an African initiative to strengthen Africa's capacity to take a more effective part in the emerging global trading system and to better manage the process of Globalization. It become an institute through the resolution of the Board of Trustees at their meeting on the 4th of August 2001. The mission is to strengthen Africa in World Trade: For an open, equitable, rule-based, transparent, secure, non-discriminatory and predictable trading system.



• Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (TRALAC) is an independent not-for-profit company.The organisaiton provides in-depth research on international trade law matters, access to trade law information and news, advice on trade law matters via the web, as well as workshops and short training courses on a range of trade issues.



• Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC) is a non-profit organisation in Zimbabwe. TARSC provides training, information, research and capacity support on areas of public health, social policy, food security, social protection, social and economic rights, reproductive, gender and child rights and on civic-state relations. TARSC works mainly in southern Africa and networks with non government, government and academic organisations.



• Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was launched on 10 December 1998, International Human Rights Day. Its main objective is to campaign for greater access to treatment for all South Africans, by raising public awareness and understanding about issues surrounding the availability, affordability and use of HIV treatments. TAC campaigns against the view that AIDS is a ‘death sentence’.

• Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS), India - Gene Campaign is a national level organisation in India working in the area of genetic resources. It opposes the privatisation of the world’s genetic resources and is working to help secure the rights of the custodians of these resources: tribal communities and farm men and women of the developing countries. The biological wealth of developing nations is under attack from MNCs who are demanding patent rights as an instrument of access and control for one of the most sought after raw materials of the world.



• Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP), Tokyo. The objectives of the Institute are to conduct study and research concerning various domestic and overseas issues and to collect and supply information for the purpose of promoting appropriate protection and international harmonization of the intellectual property and thereby contributing to the development of the industry and economy of Japan.



• Korea Intellectual Property Research Center (KIPRC)'s objectives are to study the domestic and international trend of IP as well as newly emerging IP issues; to come up with efficient countermeasures for domestic and international disputes on intellectual property; to help the government and industries set up their intellectual property strategies and policies.



• Kalpavriksh (KV) is a Indian voluntary group working on environmental education, research, campaigns, and direct action.



• M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), India. The basic mandate of MSSRF is to impart a pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women orientation to a job-led economic growth strategy in rural areas through harnessing science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development.



• Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI), India, is a non-governmental organisation set up to strengthen the creativity of grassroots inventors, innovators and ecopreneurs engaged in conserving biodiversity and developing eco-friendly solutions to local problems.



• South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) is a recognised, registered, non-profit, non-governmental organisation launched in 1994. It aims to enable South Asian communities to benefit from and minimise the harms of changing regional and global economic paradigm.



• Southeast Asia Regional Institute for Community Education (SEARICE) focuses its efforts on the community-based conservation and development of plant genetic resources, and on policy advocacy and lobbying work related to the issues in agricultural bio-diversity, bio-technology, intellectual property rights and access to genetic resources. These activities are implemented at varying degrees in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.



• Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan. The SDPI's mission is to catalyse the transition towards sustainable development, defined as the enhancement of peace, social justice and well-being, within and across generations. The Sustainable Development Policy Institute provides the global sustainable development community with representation from Pakistan as well as South Asia as a whole.



• Third World Network, Malaysia, is an independent non-profit international network of organisations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-South issues. Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to organise and participate in seminars; and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern interests and perspectives at international fora.



• Yayasan Kehati (Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation). Its mission is in particular to support efforts of biological diversity conservation and the sustainable utilization of biological resources, yielding benefits to be more widely and equitably; to assist in the endeavor of securing the empowerment of communities and interest groups holding stakes in biological diversity conservation; to support the development, enactment and adoption of sustainable development policies.
  
  

• Asociación Interamericana de Propiedad Industrial (ASIPI)

• Associação Brasileira da Propriedade Intelectual (ABPI) é uma associação sem fins lucrativos congrega empresas, escritórios de agentes de propriedade industrial, escritórios de advocacia e especialistas. Tem como objetivo o estudo da propriedade intelectual, em todos os seus aspectos, notadamente o direito da propriedade industrial, o direito autoral, o direito da concorrência e a transferência de tecnologia, inclusive outros ramos que tenham relação ou afinidade, pugnando pelo aperfeiçoamento da legislação, doutrina e jurisprudência desses ramos do direito, e se empenha na promoção de conferências, congressos, seminários, simpósios e certames, editando inclusive publicações sobre essas matérias.

• Associação Paulista da Propriedade Industrial (ASPI). A ASPI tem como principal finalidade difundir a Propriedade Intelectual e colaborar no aperfeiçoamento dos profissionais que atuam na área, por meio da organização de cursos, palestras, seminários e grupos de estudos, organizados por seu Departamento Cultural, bem como patrocinar e defender os interesses dos seus associados perante os órgãos públicos e privados, especialmente perante o Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial - INPI.

• Bioamazônia is a private non-profit institution that, on one side, protects the public interest in Brazil by acting on projects of relevant social value (especially R&D in science); on the other, it counts on an innovative organization, and a business oriented managing structure which allows for the agility and flexibility needed to perform well in the private sector. Its mission is to ensure that the products extracted from the forest are submitted to a complete R&D process to become industrialized goods of high aggregate value, potentially competitive in the world market of bioproducts. The use of natural resources will be done in a sustainable way, and with full respect for the rights of the peoples involved in screening.

• Centro de Derecho Ambiental y de los Recursos Naturales (CEDARENA) - The Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center, Costa Rica. The purpose of CEDARENA is to harmonize the relationships between human beings and nature to improve the quality of life. The mission of the association is to consolidate environmental sustainability principles and values through the development and practice of Law and Policy. Toward this end, CEDARENA carries out a wide variety of projects dealing with different aspects of environmental law.



• Centro Internacional de Política Económica para el Desarrollo Sostenible (CINPE), Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica. Es un instituto transdisciplinario de investigación especializado en Política Económica, que también desarrolla actividades de docencia, actualización profesional y venta de servicios. Guiado por el objetivo de promover el desarrollo sostenible, emplea como ejes orientadores el derecho a una mejor calidad de vida, el aprovechamiento sostenible de los recursos naturales, la paz, la democracia, el respeto a la diversidad étnico-cultural y los derechos de las generaciones futuras.


• Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (CEMDA) es una organización mexicana que tiene como principal objetivo fungir como un CENTRO, a través del cual los distintos sectores sociales puedan apoyarse para comprender mejor el Derecho Ambiental y darle una aplicación útil en sus actividades propias, con una visión de desarrollo sustentable.



• Coordinating Body for the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), Ecuador. COICA is a group that brings more than four hundred indigenous people together. It was founded in Lima Peru in 1982 in order for native people to be able to defend their rights, fight for the survival of their culture, and to exchange experiences in to find solutions to their various problems.



• Copyleft is an open source website in Spanish.



• Fundacao Getulio Vargas. Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade O CTS é o Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade da Escola de Direito da Fundação Getulio Vargas no Rio de Janeiro. Sua missão institucional é estudar as implicações jurídicas, sociais e culturais advindas do avanço da tecnologia da informação, desenvolvendo projetos relacionados àquelas áreas. O termo "sociedade" denota, assim, a abertura disciplinar do CTS para as áreas não jurídicas. O CTS desenvolve estudos e projetos principalmente nas seguintes áreas: Propriedade Intelectual, Software Livre, Governança da Internet e Privacidade na Internet.



• Fundación Ecuatoriana de Estudios Ecológicos (EcoCiencia), Ecuador. Su misión es “conservar la diversidad biológica mediante la investigación científica, la recuperación del conocimiento tradicional y la educación ambiental, impulsando formas de vida armoniosas entre el ser humano y la naturaleza”.



• Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt. The mission of the Humboldt Institute is to promote, to coordinate and carry out research that contributes to the conservation and sustainable use of the biological diversity in Colombia.

• Instituto Latinoamericano de Servicios Legales Alternativos (ILSA), Colombia. Es una organización no gubernamental que promueve una red de servicios jurídicos populares alternativos en América Latina y el Caribe. ILSA es abierta a la región, al servicio de las prácticas jurídicas populares en todos los países, cuyo fortalecimiento y cualificación se busca a través de la integración y extensión de una red internacional que tiene como área de trabajo el derecho desde un enfoque crítico y alternativo.

• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), Costa Rica. INBio is a scientific institution with social orientation. It is non-profit and for the public good. Its mission is promote a new awareness of the value of biodiversity, and thereby achieve its conservation and use to improve the quality of life. It is an institution leader in the search and popularization of the knowledge about biodiversity and its sustainable uses.

• Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (SPDA), Peru. La SPDA es una organización privada sin fines de lucro integrada por profesionales en Derecho. Trabaja al servicio de la comunidad peruana y también en el ámbito internacional, con especial énfasis en la región latinoamericana, a efectos de proteger el patrimonio ambiental de nuestros países, de promover el uso sostenible de sus recursos naturales y una calidad ambiental adecuada para beneficio de todas las poblaciones, particularmente las menos favorecidas, que requieren de urgente apoyo para alcanzar un nivel de vida digno.