Initiated as an EU-funded project in 2004, MINDS International (Mobile Information and News Data Services) was founded as an Association in fall 2007 by 11 news agencies from Europe and the USA. MINDS International acts as a research and development unit for innovations in the field of digital information and communication solutions for the media industry and supports technology exchange between the agencies.

The MINDS network comprises the following agency partners:

• aap - australian associated press
  Australian Associated Press
  Australian Associated Press is Australia's national news agency. The organisation was established in 1935 by Fairfax and The Herald and Weekly Times.AAP employs more than 175 journalists who work in bureaux in all Australian states and territories...
  
   (Australia)
• AFP - Agence France-Presse
  Agence France-Presse
  Agence France-Presse is a French news agency, the oldest one in the world, and one of the three largest with Associated Press and Reuters. It is also the largest French news agency. Currently, its CEO is Emmanuel Hoog and its news director Philippe Massonnet...
  
   (France)
• ANP - Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau
  Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau
  The Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau is the largest news agency in the Netherlands. ANP was founded on December 11, 1934 by the association of Dutch newspapers NDP...
  
   (The Netherlands)
• AP - Associated Press
  Associated Press
  The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
  
   (USA)
• APA - Austria Presse Agentur (Austria)
• Belga - Agence Telegraphique Belge de Presse
  Belga (news agency)
  Belga is a Belgian news agency. Belga was founded in 1920 as "Agence télégraphique belge de presse" by Pierre-Marie Olivier and Maurice Travailleur. Seat : 8B Frédéric Pelletier Street, 1030 Schaerbeek - External link :*...
  
   (Belgium)
• CTK - Česká tisková kancelář (Czech Republic)
• dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
  Deutsche Presse-Agentur
  Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH is a news agency founded in 1949 in Germany. Based in Hamburg, it has grown to be a major worldwide operation serving print media, radio, television, online, mobile phones, and national news agencies. News is available in German, English, Spanish, and Arabic.The DPA...
  
   (Germany)
• EFE - Agencia EFE
  EFE
  EFE is a Spanish news agency created in 1939 by Spain's former minister of the press and propaganda Ramón Serrano Súñer and Manuel Aznar Zubigaray....
  
   (Spain)
• Kyodo - Kyodo News (Japan)
• Lusa - Agência de Notícias de Portugal (Portugal)
• MTI - Magyar Távirati Iroda
  MTI
  MTI may stand for:* MTI, Message Type Indicator.* MTI Consulting, a consulting firm based in Bahrain.* MTI Consultancy, Machwuerth Team International Group, a consultancy based in Germany.* Magyar Távirati Iroda, a Hungarian news wire agency....
  
   (Hungary)
• NTB - Norsk Telegrambyrå (Norway)
• PAP - Polska Agencja Prasowa  (Poland)
• PA - Press Association
  Press Association
  The Press Association is the national news agency of the United Kingdom and Ireland, supplying multimedia news content to almost all national and regional newspapers, television and radio news, as well as many websites with text, pictures, video and data content globally...
  
   (UK)
• RIA Novosti - Russian News and Information Agency (Russia)
• Ritzau - Ritzaus Bureau I/S
  Ritzau
  Ritzaus Bureau I/S, or Ritzau for short, is a Danish news agency founded in 1866 by Erik Nicolai Ritzau. It is the largest independent Danish news agency, and also collaborates with three other Scandinavian news agencies to provide Nordic News, an English-language Scandinavian news service...
  
   (Denmark)
• SDA - Schweizerische Depeschenagentur
  Schweizerische Depeschenagentur
  Schweizerische Depeschenagentur AG is the national press agency of Switzerland, founded in 1894. The SDA is a non-profit organization, but is owned privately....
  
   (Switzerland)
• STT - Suomen Tietotoimisto
  Suomen Tietotoimisto
  Oy Suomen Tietotoimisto – Finska Notisbyrån Ab is a Finnish news agency, established in 1887 and based in Helsinki. Its largest owners are Alma Media, Sanoma and Turun Sanomat. YLE also owns a part of it....
  
   (Finland)
• TM News (Italy)
• TT - Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå AB
  TT
  TT, Tt, tt, or .tt may refer to:- Organizations :* Texas Tech University, a university in Lubbock, Texas, United States* Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå, a Swedish news agency* Türk Telekom, a Turkish telecommunications company...
  
   (Sweden)
• Yonhap - Yonhap News
  Yonhap
  Yonhap News Agency is South Korea's largest news agency. It is a publicly-funded company, and based in Seoul, South Korea. Yonhap supplies domestic, foreign news and other information to newspaper, TV broadcast and other media in South Korea.-History:...
  
  (South Korea)

MINDS’ Mission Statement: MINDS International is a global network and platform of equal news agencies sharing ideas and exchanging knowledge to put business concepts forward in order to raise revenues and save costs in digital markets.