About Us
The Biometrics Institute is an independent not-for-profit membership organisation, founded in July 2001 in Australia with initial funding from the Australian Government through the Department of Communications, Information and the Arts (DCITA).
The organisation is unique in that it has been set up as a user group with a majority of user members such as government departments and organisations using or planning to use biometrics running the association.
The organisation's constitution requires the majority of the Board of Directors, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman to be user representatives. The Biometrics Institute has been set up to give more voting rights to its user and government members. Nonetheless, the Biometrics Institute encourages vendors of biometric and other related products and services to join the organisation.
The primary members are government and users of biometric services and products, with other membership categories for vendors.
The members are from Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the USA and we are currently expanding membership into the wider Asia-Pacific region.
Further reading:
"Biometrics: The body and soul of security" by Jeanne-Vida Douglas, ZDNet Australia, 14 February 2002
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