06. ICTswitzerland and IFIP

IFIP FULL MEMBER SOCIETY REPORT 2005
to the General Assembly, Gaborone (after WITFOR’05)

SVI/FSI becomes ICTswitzerland

1. Change of Name and By-Laws

As reported last year the name of the Swiss Member of IFIP is now ICTswitzerland. The main change was the important enlargement of scope from IT to ICT. Todate it encompasses 20 organizations with roughly 9’000 personal and 2’000 corporate members. It performed 2 in-depth economical studies in Software and Telecom in Switzerland.

ICTswitzerland is also member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering sciences (SATW) – see below- and as full member of IFIP is the voice of our country at this level.
www.ictswitzerland.ch/de/index.asp

2. The Swiss Representation within IFIP managed by SARIT and supported by SATW and SARIT

One of the member societies of ICTswitzerland is SARIT (Swiss Association for Research in Information Technology) of which all Swiss university professors in Computer Science are members. SARIT is the natural body to take care of the scientific international contacts of ICTswitzerland, including those to IFIP and to ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics). Its Board has now the delegated responsibility for the operational duties of the Swiss representation to IFIP. SARIT and SATW pay a part of the costs of the Swiss representation in IFIP. Within SARIT the "Swiss IFIP Committee" (SIC) – see below -encompasses the Swiss Delegates to IFIP’s General Assembly and TCs.
http://www.sarit.ch/ifip/index.html and
http://www.ictswitzerland.ch/de/organisation/ifip/kommission-ifip.asp

Main functions of a Swiss IFIP TC representative :

• provide information to the Technical Committee about latest developments and concerns in Switzerland in order to ensure an international focus for the TC activities,

• provide information to the interested parties in Switzerland about the TC activities,

• attend annual meetings of the TC,

• organise TC meetings and events in Switzerland when feasible, etc...

For more information :

• Tasks of the delegates, and
• Rules how Swiss delegates are nominated and elected.

Current Delegates to IFIP (GA and TC’s)