ESI is a non profit foundation set up in 1993 by the European Comission for the purpose of contributing to the development of the Information Society and increasing Industrial Competitiveness through Knowledge, Innovation, Promotion and Dissemination in the field of Information Technologies.
The CTIC Foundation is a non profit institution specialising in the Information Society, Internet Standards and specifically Web Content Accessibility. It hosts the Spanish office of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)