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ISESCO aims to promote the separate and distinct educational, scientific and cultural heritage that combines the 57 OIC member countries. The primary purpose of the organisation is to coordinate the activities of specialist agencies responsible for similar functions within each of the OIC member countries.

ISESCO has helped develop a number of action plans and strategies on an OIC-wide basis in areas such as water resources, university education and Islamic culture. ISESCO has also started awarding prizes in education and literacy, sciences and university research, and culture and communication to individuals within the OIC member countries.

JCOM is an online journal on scientific communication, which is trying to become an interdisciplinary melting-pot capable of providing some theoretical guidelines for science communication. Each article undergoes multidisciplinary peer-reviewing by experts belonging to different areas of competence such as science, communication and theory of communication.

The Communication of Science and Technology network (PCST) Academy is responsible for the creation of the documentary basis of the Public Communication of Science and Technology network (PCST) and its main task is the selection and organized collection of reports on particular topics in the field of communication and social understanding of science.

The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) COMSTECH is an entity created by the OIC in January 1981 to promote cooperation among the 57 OIC member states and to draw up programmes and proposals for increasing the capability of the Muslim countries in the fields of science and technology.

COMSTECH provides human and material resources to further the scientific and technological capabilities of OIC member countries. It aims to assess countries' scientific resources and build indigenous scientific capacity. COMSTECH has facilitated literature search services for young scientists in its member countries, inter-library networks, a visiting scholar programme and a grants programme for young scholars of its member countries.

STEMARN is a non-profit organisation, founded by UNESCO. Headquartered at the Arabian Gulf University of Bahrain, it provides a forum for promoting regional technology development and science and technology management.

STEMARN carries out training programmes and studies into Arab science and technology. The network is funded by a number of donors from the Arab world, namely the Arab Fund for Social and Economic Development and the Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Science.