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Professional Organizations: This page offers links to professional organizations in the field that you may want to pursue membership in in order to help you network, find employment, or obtain certifications.
A private, non-profit organization that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. The Institute's mission is to enhance both the global competitiveness of U.S. business and the U.S. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.
A worldwide federation of national standards bodies from more than 140 countries. ISO's mission is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity.
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving pictures, audio and their combination.
A non-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). NISO identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information. NISO standards apply to traditional and new technologies and to the full range of information related needs, including retrieval, re-purposing, storage, metadata, and preservation.
A non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration. NIST develops and promotes measurements, standards, and technology for a wide range of products and services to enhance productivity and facilitate trade.
Standards created by an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.
The world's leading certification body for information and communications technology (ICT) professionals. Training and testing information for certification.
ISACA provides a certification and badges on a variety of IT skills including audits, risk, strategic enterprise governance, cybersecurity, and privacy protection.
Information about Project Management Professional (PMP), and Certified Associate in Project Mangement (CAPM) certifications, including handbooks and applications for examination.
Microsoft offers certification programs for people in several roles working with Microsoft products including developers, administrators, solution architects, data engineers, data scientists, AI engineers, DevOps engineers, Security engineers, and functional consultants.