The International Biometrics & Identification Association (IBIA) promotes using technology effectively and appropriately to determine personal identity and enhance the security, privacy, productivity, and convenience for individuals, organizations, and governments worldwide. With biometrics and other identification technologies as the core focus, the IBIA provides a forum for discussion, education, advocacy, and public policy. For more information, please go to www.ibia.org.

The Biometrics Institute is an independent not-for-profit organisation based in Australia providing THE meeting place for any organisation interested in biometrics. It has over 110 membership organisations from Australia, New Zealand and beyond including Australian Customs Service, Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and New Zealand Customs to name a few. The mission of the Biometrics Institute is to be a forum for biometric users and other interested parties and to facilitate the responsible use of biometrics.

For more information visit www.biometricsinstitute.org.

The BioAPI Consortium is a group of over 120 organizations that have a common interest in promoting the growth of the biometrics market through standardization. The Consortium has developed a specification for a standardized Application Programming Interface (API) that is compatible with a wide range of biometric applications programs and a broad spectrum of biometrics technologies. The BioAPI Specification was approved as an ANSI standard in 2002 and an ISO standard in 2006. The organization now focuses on promoting its adoption and disseminating information and resources.

For more information, go to www.bioapi.org.

BiometricUpdate.com is the leading news property that publishes breaking news, analysis, and research about the $7 billion global biometric market.

Each day, you will find original articles, interviews, videos, and podcasts that focus on global developments in biometric technology, such as: fingerprint identification, earlobe, voice, DNA, iris, and facial recognition, civil and criminal ID, retina scans, hand geometry, point of sales authentication, signature verification, video surveillance and gait recognition.

Our news coverage places special emphasis on national security, privacy and regulatory issues, along with examining the latest industrial, commercial and residential applications for biometric technology.

For more information go to: http://www.biometricupdate.com/.

Planet Biometrics is a free-to-access portal designed to shine a light on the biometric industry, promote the industry’s expertise, give critical analysis, uncover breaking news, and, most importantly, provide educational information and advice for end users.

The Planet Biometrics portal and its newsletters are designed to be the best in the business. The professional, content-rich site will contain cutting-edge news, case histories, white papers, analysis, a directory and more. High-quality, informed information will be the hallmark of this site, which is targeted at decision makers in the government and commercial sectors.

For more information go to: http://planetbiometrics.com/.

BioPortfolio is a leading news, information and knowledge resource covering the global life science industries impacted on by biotechnology. The site aims to provide the lay person, the researcher and the management executive with a single location to source core information on specific bio-related topics, to collate relevant data associated with each topic and to point the user to relevant knowledge resources.

We publish up to the minute news (see biotechnology news categories) and regularly update content across our information databases.  BioPortfolio promotes and sell market research and management reports from 30+ publishers - please review biotechnology report categories.  In addition our unique corporate database lists 40,000+ companies and organization - please review biotechnology organizations by category.

For more information go to: http://www.bioportfolio.com/.

findBIOMETRICS.com is the leading Biometrics Industry Resource providing free information on all biometric identification and identity verification systems and solutions. findBIOMETRICS has the latest daily news from the global biometric business community, as well as comprehensive vendor lists, informative articles, interviews with industry leaders, useful links to Biometric associations and a current list of related industry events and conferences.

For more information, go to: http://www.findbiometrics.com/.

Biometric Technology Today is the most established source of authoritative news, analysis, features and surveys on the international biometrics market. Published ten times a year, it is committed to providing unbiased, intelligent comment as well as extensive and fully researched worldwide news coverage on all aspects of the biometrics market.

For more information, go to: http://www.elsevierscitech.com/nl/btt/home.asp.

ContingencyToday.com is dedicated to the challenges and opportunities of Critical National Infrastructure protection. Its readership includes policy-makers, decision-influencers and middle management implementers engaged in emergency planning, disaster recovery and infrastructure protection including electronic attack and the sophisticated misuse of computer systems; physical attacks by terrorist organisations and other criminals; the effects of climate change; and other natural disasters, including pandemics, fire and flood.

For more information, go to: http://www.contingencytoday.com/index.php

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