International

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International Federation for Information P
rocessing A Global Alliance providing THE
FORUM FOR THE INFORMATION AGE
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• Aims
• Founded January 1960
• in 2004 51 Full Members,
• 3 Corresponding Members
• 10 Affiliated International Organizations
• IFIP was founded in 1960 under the auspices of
  UNESCO.
• Its basic aims are to promote information in
  science and technology by fostering international
  cooperation, by stimulating research, development
  and the applications of information processing in
  science and human activity, by furthering the
  dissemination and exchange of information and by
  encouraging education in information processing.
  

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IFIP Membership ANDORRA AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA
BELGIUM BOTSWANA BRAZIL BULGARIA CANADA
CHILE CHINA CLEI CROATIA CYPRUS CZECH
REPUBLIC DENMARK EGYPT FINLAND
FRANCE GERMANY GREECE HUNGARY
INDIA IRELAND ISRAEL ITALY JAPAN KOREA LITHUAN
IA MALAYSIA NETHERLANDS NORWAY NIGERIA OMAN POLA
ND PORTUGAL RUSSIA SINGAPORE SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA S
OUTH AFRICA SPAIN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND SRI
LANKA SYRIA THAILAND UNITED KINGDOM USA based
ACM USA based IEEE ZIMBABWE CLEI
ARGENTINA ICELAND NEW ZEALAND
CEPIS FACE IAPR IASC ICCC IJCAII IMIA INFORM
S SEARCC VLDB
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• Organization
• A General Assembly of all IFIP Members takes
  place annually and
• has overall responsibility for IFIPs strategy,
  finances and
• activities. It elects a President, four
  Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, a
• Secretary and eight Trustees who together form
  the IFIP Council.

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• Technical Work
• 13 Technical Committees with 89 Working Groups
  organizing yearly over 70 international events.
• At the heart of IFIP lie its Technical Committees
  that count on the active participation of over
  two thousand people world-wide. There are
  thirteen such Committees. Each, in effect, is a
  management team responsible for a given field of
  activity and for the work of its Working Groups.
  These groups work in a variety of ways to share
  experience and to develop their specialized
  knowledge. These include open conferences,
  smaller working conferences, seminars and
  tutorials, circulated papers and, increasingly,
  as befits our subject, electronic conferencing
  and e-mail.

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• Technical Committees
• TC 1 Foundations of Computer Science
• TC 2 Software Theory and Practice
• TC 3 Education
• TC 5 Computer Applications in Technology
• TC 6 Communication Systems
• TC 7 System Modelling and Optimization
• TC 8 Information Systems
• TC 9 Relationship between Computers and Society
• TC 10 Computer Systems Technology
• TC 11 Security and Protection in IP Systems
• TC 12 Artificial Intelligence
• TC 13 Human - Computer Interaction
• SG 16 Specialist Group on Entertainment Computing

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• Publications
• Books - Journals -Technical Committee Reports -
• Newsletters - Information Bulletins - Other
• Many IFIP events generate publications and there
  are annually some 35 to 40 IFIP books and
  associations with several Journals. Our principal
  publisher is

Kluwer Academic Publishers Jennifer EVANS, IFIP
Editor 101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park,
Norwell, MA 02061, U.S.A Tel [phone]
Fax [phone] e-mail jennifer.evans_at_spri
nger-sbm.com http//www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/IFI
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• Congresses Major Conferences
• IFIP's flagship event is its World Computer
  Congress
• The 18th Congress was held in August 2004 in
  Toulouse, France
• The 19th Congress is scheduled for August 2006
  in Santiago Chile
• There are many other major events organized by
  IFIP and included in the IFIP Calendar
  http//www.ifip.or.at/cal_even/htm

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World Information Technology Forum 200531 Aug
2 Sept 2005
www.witfor.org.bw
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• Key Data for 2004
• 52 conferences and events
• 18th IFIP World Computer Congress in Toulouse
• 31 IFIP books published
• IFIP Newsletter

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• Affiliations

IFIP holds a Formal Consultative status with
UNESCO and maintains formal relations with
other agencies of the UN System During WCC 2002
a joint UNESCO - IFIP World Computer Congress
2002 Declaration on Youth and ICTs was discussed
and accepted IFIP is a Scientific Associate
with the International Union for Science and
maintains contacts with the International
Federation of Automatic Control, the
International Association for Mathematics and
Computers in Simulation, the International
Federation of Operational Research Societies and
the International Measurement Confederation.

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• Secretariat
• Head of Secretariat Eduard Dundler
• Administrative Assistant Christine McKenzie
• Administrative Assistant Brigitte Brauneis
• Hofstrasse 3
• A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
• http//www.ifip.or.at email
  ifip_at_.ifip.or.at
• Tel. [phone] Fax [phone]