As of June 2025, the NDSA Leadership recommended welcoming its three most recent applicants into the membership:

The Isivivane SoLwazi – Digitisation Dialogue Coalition (ISDDC) is an initiative on the African continent, dedicated to establishing a technical forum that addresses the critical challenges and developmental hurdles within Africa’s digital archive landscape. As a government-led programme supported at the national level, ISDDC seeks to foster collaboration, knowledge exchange, and resource sharing among diverse stakeholders in the GLAM sector. This coalition serves as a platform for dialogue, bringing together archival institutions, policymakers, and technical experts to collectively tackle digitisation and digital curation challenges. Through informal discussions, practical workshops, and strategic partnerships, ISDDC facilitates the sharing of best practices, the development of standardized workflows, and the enhancement of efficiency in digital preservation efforts across South Africa.

The Permanent Legacy Foundation seeks to join NDSA to strengthen our commitment to ethical, accessible, and long-term digital preservation. As a nonprofit dedicated to providing secure, permanent cloud storage for individuals and organizations – particularly those preserving underrepresented histories – they align with NDSA’s mission to advance digital stewardship best practices. They hope to contribute expertise in community-driven archiving while integrating leading preservation strategies into their platform, and to collaborate with fellow NDSA members to address challenges in digital longevity, sustainability, and access. The Permanent Legacy Foundation looks forward to the opportunity to engage with this network and support the broader effort to preserve the world’s digital heritage.

Preserve Together offers a broad range of training and consultancy services to help organizations build their capacity and skills for digital preservation. Consultants Sharon McMeekin and Paul Wheatley bring more than 40 years’ experience at prominent organizations, where they played a leading role in advancing digital preservation good practice. They work with organizations around the world to solve preservation challenges relating to procurement, advocacy, file formats, storage architecture, capability audit, and more. They also deliver professional development for both individuals and organizations via services such as skills audits and through in-house and online training. They believe community and people are at the heart of digital preservation, and that is a core tenet of how they approach their work. 

Each organization participates in one or more of the various interest and working groups – so keep an eye out for them on your calls, and be sure to give them a shout-out. Please join me in welcoming our new members! You can review the list of members on our website

– NDSA Membership Working Group