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Eurosolar

Eurosolar is the non-profit European Association for Renewable Energy that conducts its work independently of political parties, institutions, commercial enterprises and interest groups.

Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation

The Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation (JAACD) is an interest group founded in 2005 by Don Feder in the United States formed to combat anti-Christian prejudice in Hollywood, the news media, academia, politics and the courts.

Rick Nowlin

Among his classmates was Dan Richey, who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House (1976–1980) and the Louisiana Senate (1980–1984), and is now affiliated with the Louisiana Family Forum, a conservative interest group which supported Nowlin in his legislative campaign.


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BroadR-Reach Ethernet standard

The OPEN Alliance SIG is a special interest group formed by BMW, Broadcom, Freescale, Harman, Hyundai and NXP to establish BroadR-Reach® as an open standard and to encourage wide scale adoption of automotive Ethernet as the connectivity standard in automotive networking applications.

Charles G. Boyd

From May 1, 2002 until December 31, 2009, he was the president and CEO of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a national security public interest group.

E. Jennifer Monaghan

In 1975 Monaghan founded the History of Reading Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association, and was for many years an active member of its executive board.

Ernie Alexander

He held membership in the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, the National Federation of Independent Business, Better Business Bureau of Acadiana, and the Public Affairs Research Council, a nonpartisan "good government" interest group.

Gorgeous Geeks

The Gorgeous Geeks (GG) is an interest group based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Groupement d'intérêt économique

A Groupement d'intérêt économique (abbreviated GIE; in English Economic Interest Grouping or Economic Interest Group, abbreviated EIG) is a Francophone consortium of related businesses, companies, foundations, organisations or institutes which are formally pooling their efforts for competitive advantage.

Heimar de Fátima Marin

Heimar Marin is also the President of Brazilian Society of Health Informatics (2002–2008); Associate-editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics; and Vice-chair and Elected Chair (2009–2012) of the International Medical Informatics Association Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group (IMIA NI SIG).

John H. Hannah, Jr.

Returning to private practice, Hannah would later serve as legal counsel to the Common Cause public interest group, where he was instrumental in defining the Open Meetings Act and the Lobby Control Act, among other reforms, and helped to create the Texas Public Utilities Commission.

Karjalan Liitto

Karjalan Liitto (in English: Karelian Association) is an interest group for Karelian evacuees.

Origins Game Fair

The Interest Group Baltimore, a local wargaming club, worked with the Baltimore-based Avalon Hill game company to put on the first show that year at Johns Hopkins University.

Ratfiv

Ratfiv was developed by Bill Wood at the Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, PA in the early 1980s and released on several DECUS (Digital Equipment Users Group) SIG (Special Interest Group) tapes.

SIGIR

Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) concerned about information retrieval

SIGMDSE

This special interest group focus on model driven (or model based) and architecture centered software engineering techniques and tools, e.g. OMG's MDA (Model Driven Architecture).

Steven Flanagan

He holds a major TBI grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research; is chairman of the Brain Injury Special Interest Group of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R); and is a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Brain Trauma Foundation.

Telecommunications Society of Australia

In 2007 TSA was absorbed into the Australian Computer Society as its Telecommunications Special Interest Group (SIG), now known as the ACS-TSA under the ACS Telecommunications Board.

Wakefield Europort

The site has been identified by the Railfreight Investment Interest Group (RIIG) as one of three 'Strategic Railfreight Interchanges' (SRFI) in England (2009) together with Hams Hall and DIRFT.