SITC Membership
The Security Innovation and Technology Consortium Ltd (SITC) is a membership organisation incorporated as a not for profit company limited by guarantee (Companies House Registration No. 6455733).
Membership is open to organisations (companies, institutions, partnerships, sole traders) operating in the information security, homeland security or related technology sector, or who have a legitimate interest (as buyers, end users or experts) in developing innovative technology solutions in these sectors.
By completing the SITC Member Consent Form (or on-line application process) you are consenting to your organisation becoming a SITC Member.
SITC reserves the right to reject applications for SITC Membership from organisations that it considers to fall outside of the scope of relevant Security Sector operational engagement or interests as set out above.
SITC also reserves the right to withdraw SITC Membership from any SITC Member whose operations or interests change so that they are no longer within the relevant Security Sector scope or where the SITC Member fails to behave in accordance with the SITC Member's Obligations (set out below).
SITC currently has a single class of Member and Membership is free of charge. However, SITC reserves the right to alter its policy on membership to create different classes of Member and/or charge annual fees for Membership, as necessary to ensure its meets its long term objectives.
SITC Members must agree to contribute an amount (not exceeding £1) to SITC's assets, in the event of SITC being wound up during their Membership, or within one year of the cessation of their Membership.
SITC is constituted in this way to ensure that SITC Members have a legal stake in SITC and consequently have the right to vote on SITC policy at SITC General Meetings.
SITC Members each have one vote (i.e. one vote per organisation) which can be exercised through the Lead Contact (normally the person who is named as such on the Member Consent Form or completes the online application process).
The intention is for SITC, and its Board of Directors, to be directly accountable to the Security Sector it serves (as defined by the scope of relevant operational engagement or interests set out above). SITC Members are therefore encouraged to exercise their rights to inflence SITC Policy in this way.
SITC's Obligations
SITC will endeavour to act in the economic interests of the Security Sector it serves (relevant scope set out above) and its Members who represent this industry sector. In doing this, SITC will also endeavour to meet and exceed its contracual commitments to its primary sponsor (the South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA)) in supporting the economic development of the sector in the South East of England.
SITC's Executive Team and Directors will be expected to:
SITC Director's Oranisations are not precluded from engaging as SITC Members in SITC supported activities and seeking to derive commercial benefit from this engagement with SITC, provided any conflicts of interest are declared and not allowed to inflence SITC policy or decisions.
SITC will publish (primarily via its website) information on opportunities and activities considered relevant to SITC Members and the Security Sector as a whole. It will seek to ensure that all SITC Members have equal access to relevant information.
SITC Member's Obligations
SITC is intended to provide a context in which SITC Members have the opportunity to derive mutual benefit from sharing information, participating in SITC activities and engaging in commercial or R&D partnerships and collaborations with other SITC Members.
SITC Members will be expected to be willing to:
Any failure to act according to the spirit of these obligations would form grounds for complaint to the SITC Board and possible revocation of SITC membership.
*Please note that only organisation name, website and short activity descriptions from SITC Member profiles on the website will be accessible by non-SITC Members. Other profile content will only be accessible via the SITC Members only area of the website. If members choose to, they can hide all personal contact information from other SITC Members so contact can only be made via the SITC Executive Team. SITC reserves the right to edit all content on the SITC website (including oganisational and individual profiles) where necessary to ensure consistency of style. Any material edits of profiles will be notified and agreed.