The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and the Department of Information Technology, Government of India invite your participation in the forthcoming World IT Forum (WITFOR 2012) to be held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, India on 16th -18th April 2012. For more details, see http://www.witfor.org/

Conference Proposal: Shaping the Future of ICT Research: Methods and Approaches, to be held at University of South Florida, Tampa, FL December 13-14, 2012.

Due to problems with the submission system, the due date for OASIS workshop submissions has been moved to 29 September 2011. You can read the call for the workshop here and submit here.

IFIP has posted a call for papers for the first IFIP World CIO Forum to be held in Shenzhen, China on 1-4 November 2011. The Forum is "a global platform to discuss relevant IT related issues and topics in national policy formulation, business sustainability and environmental conservation". You can see the full call at http://www.ifip.org/Cfp/WCF%20Call%20for%20Paper.pdf.

Call for Short Contributions

Experience Reports, Position Statements, Extended Abstracts, Panel Proposals, Posters

Submissions Due March 14, 2011

Join us for the upcoming IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Governance and Sustainability in Information Systems: Managing the Transfer and Diffusion of IT

Hamburg, Germany, September 22-24, 2011

http://www.ifip86.uni-hamburg.de/

The following IFIP proceedings are available for sale from the IFIP Secretariat (eduard.dundler@ifip.org):

Mr Leon Strous is the new President of IFIP, for the period from September 2010 to September 2013, replacing professor Basie von Solms. Mr Strous is an IT Auditor employed by De Nederlandsche Bank, which is the Dutch central bank. He has been a Vice-President of IFIP from 2007 – 2009 and the President-elect from 2009 – 2010. From 2001 – 2007 he has been the chair of IFIP’s Technical Committee 11 covering the aspect of Information Security. He is the national representative in IFIP for the Dutch Computer Society (NGI). Please see the attached press release for more details.

For your information, attached is a press release from the International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3), a project of IFIP, regarding mutual acceptance of professional certifications by accredited IFIP Member Societies.

We've learned that the AIS registration system has a technical glitch that is showing the OASIS workshop as full, and participants are not currently able to register for the workshop as a result. AIS is working on solving this problem, but rest assured that the workshop is not full and we welcome your participation in Phoenix next month! An announcement will be posted on this site when workshop registration becomes available and we expect to be able to take late registrations at the door, although pre-registration is preferred.

Sustainable Development Programme (SDP) is an IFIP (International Federation For Information Processing) funded programme. The aim is to offer young IT professionals and students the opportunity of building up their knowledge of developing countries and development issues. The programme aims at promoting internationalization of education by providing young people with the opportunity of establishing contacts with institutions and organizations.