International

1
International Federation for Information P
rocessing A Global Alliance providing THE
FORUM FOR THE INFORMATION AGE
2

• Aims
• Founded January 1960
• in 2004 51 Full Members,
• 3 Corresponding Members
• 9 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.
  

3
IFIP Membership ANDORRA AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA
BELGIUM BOTSWANA BRAZIL BULGARIA CANADA
CHILE CHINA CLEI CROATIA CYPRUS CZECH
REPUBLIC DENMARK EGYPT ETHIOPIA FINLAND
FRANCE GERMANY GREECE HUNGARY
INDIA IRELAND ITALY JAPAN KOREA LITHUANIA
MALAYSIA NETHERLANDS NORWAY NIGERIA OMAN POLAND
PORTUGAL RUSSIA SINGAPORE SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SOU
TH 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 IJCAII IMIA INFORMS SEAR
CC VLDB
4

• Technical Work
• 13 Technical Committees with 97 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.

5

• 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

6

• TC3 Working groups
• WG 3.1 Informatics education at the secondary
  level
• WG 3.2 Informatics education at the university
  level
• WG 3.3 Research on education applications on
  information technologies
• WG 3.4 Vocational education and training
• WG 3.5 Informatics in elementary education
• WG 3.6 Distance Learning
• WG 3.7 Information Technology in Education
  Management
• SIG 3.8 LifeLong Learning

7

• 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

Springer SBM Jennifer EVANS, IFIP Editor 101
Philip Drive, Assinippi Park, Norwell, MA 02061,
U.S.A Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
e-mail jennifer.evans_at_springer-sbm.com
http//www.springer.com/series/6102
8

• 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.org/cal_even/htm

9

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