Location Interoperability Forum (LIF)
LIF, a global industry initiative, was formed in September 2000 with the purpose of developing and promoting industry common solutions for Location Based Services (LBS). The recommendations of the LIF to the mobile community are both network protocol and positioning technology independent with the goal of addressing interoperability issues and accelerating time to market of location-based services. Membership is open to companies worldwide, including application and content providers, infrastructure vendors, device manufacturers and mobile operators. There are currently over 100 members, and LIF also works with partner organizations within the wireless industry such as the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) and 3GPP. Founding members include Motorola, Ericsson and Nokia.

World Wide Web Consortium )W3C)
The mission of W3C Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) is to make Web access from a mobile device as simple as Web access from a desktop. MWI is led by key players in the mobile production chain, including authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, adaptation providers, browser vendors and mobile operators Ericsson, France Telecom, HP, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, TIM Italia, Vodafone, Afilias, Bango, Drutt Corporation, Jataayu Software, Mobileaware, Opera Software, Segala, Sevenval, and Volantis. MWI participants are building a open database of device descriptions and developing best practices for the creation of mobile friendly Web sites.