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About Conference Co-Sponsors
Coalition for Networked Information
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization designed to advance the transformative promise of networked information technology for the improvement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. Since its founding in 1990 CNI has addressed a broad array of issues related to the development and use of networked information in the research and education communities. The Coalition is a program of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE, which provide oversight and appoint the Steering Committee that guides CNI's activities. Membership in CNI is by institution. Some 200 higher education and library institutions, professional and scholarly organizations, and publishing and information technology companies comprise the Coalition. CNI's semi-annual Task Force Meetings bring together representatives of these consituencies to discuss ongoing and new projects and plan for future initiatives. CNI also hosts a variety of networked information projects.
Internet2
Internet2 is a consortium being led by over 180 universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today´s Internet in its infancy. The primary goals of Internet2 are to: create a leading edge network capability for the national research community; enable revolutionary Internet applications; and ensure the rapid transfer of new network services and applications to the broader Internet community.
Southeastern Universities Research Association
The Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) is a consortium of colleges and universities in the southern United States and the District of Columbia established in 1980 as a nonstock, nonprofit corporation. SURA serves as an entity through which colleges, universities, and other organizations may cooperate with one another and with government in acquiring, developing, and using laboratories and other research facilities and in furthering knowledge and the application of that knowledge in the physical, biological, and other natural sciences and engineering.
ViDe
The Video Development Initiative (ViDe) promotes the deployment of digital video in higher education by leveraging collective resources and expertise to solve challenges to deployment such as poor interoperability, volatile standards and high cost. ViDe members represent The Georgia Institute of Technology, Southeastern Universities Research Association, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, The University of Tennessee, University of Alabama at Birmingham, CANARIE, Ohio State University, The University of Hawaii, Indiana University, The University of South Carolina, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University. ViDe projects include: ViDeNet, the global, virtual network providing video and voice-over-IP to advanced networking communities; the Video Conferencing Cookbook; and Data Collaboration, Video Streaming, and Video Asset Management working groups.