Final GSDI Organisational Members (2017)

The following organizations were Organisational Members of the GSDI Association in its final year of operation.

The following organizations and individuals are recognized as the permanent Founding Members and Sponsors of the GSDI Association. The list includes those who early on subscribed to the ideals and goals of the organization as set forth in the Bylaws and joined as members or sponsors prior to July 2003 in order to help ensure a solid start for the organization. Some founding members and sponsors may have chosen to remain anonymous.

Founding Full Members

Atlantic Institute

CIESIN - Columbia University

Committee on Development Information (CODI)-Geo

Delft University of Technology

Department of Science and Technology

Esri

EuroGeographics

European Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information (EUROGI)

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)

GISPOL - National Land Information System Users Association

Hungarian Association for Geo-information (HUNAGI)

Indian Space Research Organisation Headquarters

Intergraph Corporation

International Society on Digital Earth

National Geographic Information Infrastructure Programme, Survey Department

National Land Survey of Finland

Natural Resources Canada

Open Geospatial Consortium

State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping of China (SBSM)

University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)

Founding Associate Members

The GSDI Association had two categories of membership - GSDI Organisational Members and GSDI Individual Members.

Organisational Members included government agencies, academic and research institutions and departments, commercial firms and not-for-profit organisations and NGOs.

Individual Members included professionals from the geo community and students at institutions of higher learning.

GSDI Organisational Members had one official representative Delegate on the GSDI Council, which was the ultimate decision-making body of the Association. Each Organisational Member had one vote on matters that required a vote of Council. GSDI Board of Directors members were chosen from the Delegates of the Councl.

GSDI Individual Members were formerly members of the International Geospatial Society (IGS) which was a separate wing of the GSDI Association, discontinued in 2015 as part of the 5-year GSDI Strategy and Action Plan 2015-2020, due to confusion that arose from some stakeholders, members and supporters concerning the role and legal status of IGS versus the Association.

GSDI Individual Members collectively had one vote on the GSDI Board of Directors via the 'Director, Individual Member Representative'.

 See the list of GSDI Founding Members from 2004 - Founding Members.