The Script Encoding Initiative (SEI),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://linguisticssei.berkeley.edu/sei/ |title=scriptScript encodingEncoding Initiative initiative|website=BerkeleyScript LinguisticsEncoding Initiative |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325131114/https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/ |archive-date= Mar 25, 2023 }}</ref> a project runcreated by Deborah Anderson at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], was founded in 2002 with the goal of funding proposals for scripts not yet encoded in the standard. TheNow projectrun by Anushah Hossain, SEI has become a major source of proposed additions to the standard in recent years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About The Script Encoding Initiative |url=https://www.unicode.org/pending/about-sei.html |access-date=4 June 2012 |publisher=The Unicode Consortium}}</ref> Although SEI collaborates with the Unicode Consortium and the ISO/IEC 10646 standards process, it operates independently, supporting the technical, linguistic, and historical research needed to prepare formal proposals. SEI maintains a database of scripts that have yet to be encoded in the Unicode Standard on the project's website.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Scripts to Encode |url=https://sei.berkeley.edu/scripts-to-encode/ }}</ref>
