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Community Member

This is an entry-level membership. OGC Community Members can participate in a range of activities across the consortium.

Benefits include:

• Access to Standards Working Groups and Domain working Groups.
• Participation in developer code sprints.
• Eligibility for funding in Collaborative Solution & Innovation activities.
• Access to member events, such as webinars, meetings, workshops, and summits.
• Networking benefits with the world’s experts on leading edge knowledge and innovative data and technology practices.
• Increased exposure of your brand and offerings to potential partners, investors, and customers via the OGC website.

Community Member fee structure:

• $1,500 / individual.
• $2,500 / start-up, university, association, not for profit.
• $5,000 / small business, sub-national government agency.
• $12,000 / medium business, national government agency.
• $18,000 / large business.

Voting Member

Voting Members of OGC drive change throughout the consortium with the power of their vote, and they participate in the Technical Committee, the backbone of the OGC consensus-based process. As a Voting Member, gain access to all the benefits of a Community Member.

Benefits include:

• Access to standard setting, voting and decision processes from beginning to end.
• Ability to influence which standards are advanced, considering your area of business activity.
• Ability to influence which standards are implemented, considering your specific business needs.
• Ability to access one of the world’s best and largest technical community of experts, to help resolve some of your most pressing interoperability challenges.
• Recognition for technical leadership and influence.

Voting Member fee structure:

• $12,000 / small business, start-up, sub-national government agency, university, association, not for profit.
• $18,000 / medium business, national government agency.
• $27,000 / large business.

Principal Member

OGC’s Principal Members lead through innovation, and shape the future of the consortium’s technology roadmap. They oversee and are the final approver on trends, the OGC technology roadmap, board of directors members, and so much more. As a Principal Member, gain all of the benefits of Community and Voting Members.

Benefits include:

• Seat on the Executive Planning Committee.
• Final approval of identified and emerging data, technologies, and associated standards at the front-end of the OGC technology roadmap.
• Final approval of globally relevant standards in a highly competitive industry.
• Access to and shaping of leadership opportunities in specific testbeds and pilots for global technology and innovation potential.
• Approval of Board of Directors.
• Networking at the executive level of the consortium.

Principal Member fee structure:

• $65,000 / business, government, academia, not for profit.

Strategic Member

Strategic Members build the future of OGC. The biggest players in geospatial, they invest in the future of the consortium to ensure the future of key innovative technologies and standards that are core to their missions. Strategic Members leverage our community of experts to build the future. As a Strategic Member, get access to all of the benefits of Community, Voting, and Principal Members.

Benefits include:

• Seat on the Strategic Advisory Committee.
• Power to define the requirements and priorities of the OGC Collaborative Solution an Innovation program.
• Leverage of pooled resources to accelerate the pace of activities and standards directly relevant to your mission and your market.
• Ability to mobilize world class experts to prototype solutions specific to your use cases.
• Ability to outsource your research needs to global experts.
  Demonstration of the highest level of commitment to open standards, FAIR principles and collective problem solving.

Strategic Member fee structure:

• $255,000 / business, government, academia, not for profit.