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Current GBIF Participants (members)

GBIF's "members" are officially called Participants by the GBIF Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU is open for signature to any country or relevant international organisation.

Institutions, individuals and regional/national/sub-national organisations that wish to share their data via the GBIF network do not have to sign the MOU (instead, see Become a Data Provider). GBIF's current Data Providers are listed here.

The procedure for a country or international organisation to apply for Participant status is described in the document How to Become a GBIF Participant.

Inquiries concerning Participation in GBIF, or Letters of Intent to do so, may be sent by e-mail to gbif@gbif.org and should be addressed as follows:

Chair of the GBIF Governing Board
GBIF Secretariat
Universitetsparken 15
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
Denmark

The current GBIFMemorandum of Understanding (MOU 2007-2011) went into effect 1 January 2007.

Voting Participants

	Date Joined	Comment
1. Argentina	Mar 2002	Argentina became Voting Participant in Sep 2007. From Mar 2002 - Aug 2007 Argentina was an Associate Participant
2. Australia	Feb 2001
3. Belgium	Feb 2001
4. Canada	Mar 2001	Has sent letter of intent but not yet signed the MOU 2007-2011
5. Costa Rica	May 2001
6. Denmark	Jan 2001
7. Equatorial Guinea	Mar 2005
8. Estonia	Sep 2003
9. Finland	Apr 2001
10. France	Mar 2001
11. Germany	Feb 2001
12. Iceland	Jun 2001
13. Ireland	Jan 2008
14. Japan	Feb 2001
15. Korea, Republic of	May 2001
16. Mexico	Mar 2001
17. Netherlands	Feb 2001
18. New Zealand	Feb 2001
19. Norway	Mar 2004
20. Peru	Sep 2002
21. Portugal	Jun 2001
22. Slovakia	Aug 2001	Slovakia became Voting Participant in Apr 2007. From Aug 2001 - Mar 2007 Slovakia was an Associate Participant
23. Slovenia	Feb 2001	Has sent letter of intent but not yet signed the MOU 2007-2011
24. South Africa	May 2003
25. Spain	Feb 2001
26. Sweden	Feb 2001
27. Tanzania	Sep 2002	Tanzania became Voting Participant in Jan 2007. From Sep 2002 - Dec 2006 Tanzania was an Associate Participant
28. United Kingdom	Aug 2001	Has sent letter of intent but not yet signed the MOU 2007-2011
29. USA	Jan 2001	Has sent letter of intent but not yet signed the MOU 2007-2011

Associate Country Participants

	Date Joined	Comments
1. Austria	Sep 2001
2. Benin	Dec 2004
3. Bulgaria	Aug 2001	Has sent letter of intent but not yet signed the MOU 2007-2011
4. Burkina Faso	Jan 2007
5. Cameroon	Mar 2005
6. Colombia	Sep 2003
7. Ghana	Mar 2001
8. Guinea	Mar 2005
9. India	Aug 2003
10. Indonesia	Nov 2004
11. Kenya	Jul 2008
12. Luxembourg	May 2008
13. Madagascar	Jan 2003
14. Morocco	Jun 2003
15. Nicaragua	Jun 2001	Changed from Voting to Associate Participant as of July 2008
16. Pakistan	Aug 2001
17. Philippines	Mar 2005
18. Poland	Mar 2001
19. Switzerland	Feb 2001

Other Associate Participants

	Date Joined	Comments
1. Andean Network of BioNET-INTERNATIONAL (AndinoNet)	Oct 2007
2. BioNET-ASEANET	Oct 2002
3. BioNet-EASIANET	Oct 2002
4. BioNET-INTERNATIONAL	May 2001	Has sent letter of intent but not yet signed the MOU 2007-2011
5. BioNet-SAFRINET	Jul 2003
6. Bioversity International	Jul 2006
7. Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)	Aug 2004
8. CABI Bioscience	Sep 2001
9. Chinese Taipei	Mar 2001
10. Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo (CYTED)	May 2006
11. Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL)	Mar 2005
12. Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF)	Jun 2007
13. Discover Life	Feb 2008
14. DIVERSITAS	May 2007
15. Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)	Jan 2008
16. ETI Bioinformatics	Mar 2001
17. Finding Species	Dec 2003
18. Freshwater Biological Association - FreshwaterLife	Oct 2003
19. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)	Mar 2001
20. Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN)	May 2001
21. International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)	Mar 2004
22. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN)	Jun 2005
23. International Species Information System (ISIS)	Jun 2006
24. Major Systematic Entomology Facilities (MSEF)	Mar 2006
25. Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA)	Dec 2004
26. NatureServe	May 2001
27. Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NORDGEN)	Mar 2004
28. Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)	Jun 2001
29. Pacific Biodiversity Information Forum (PBIF)	Sep 2004
30. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)	Feb 2008
31. Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC)	Jan 2007
32. Species 2000	Mar 2001
33. Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG)	Mar 2002
34. United Nations Environment Programme - WCMC	May 2001
35. Wildscreen	Jan 2003
36. World Data Center for Biodiversity and Ecology (WDCBE)	Apr 2005
37. World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC)	Oct 2002

To see the full list of Participants under the MOU 2001-2006, please click here.

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