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28April, 2021

Daoliang Team Wins Gold Medal at 48th Geneva International Invention Exhibition

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A team led by Professor Daoliang Li, Chair of IFIP Working Group 5.14, won the gold medal at the Geneva International Invention Review Days (formerly Geneva International Invention Exhibition) in March.

Judged through an online review process, the winning project was entitled “The key technologies and smart equipment for precision measurement and control of industrialized aquaponics […]

28April, 2021

IFIP Networking Conference – 21-24 June 2021

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The 20th Annual IFIP Networking Conference will take place online on 21-24 June 2021.

Organised by TC6, the event was originally planned as an on-site conference at Aalto University in Finland, but will now occur fully online.

Organisers plan to utilise the Zoom platform for a series of presentations, keynotes and workshops while Slack will be used […]

30March, 2021

“Unimagined Futures” Now Available

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Download the First of Two IFIP Jubilee Books

 

The first of two planned Jubilee Books to celebrate IFIP’s 60th Anniversary is now available for free download.

The title “Unimagined Futures: ICT Opportunities and Challenges” reflects the fact there were many futures in the past that happened without our having envisaged them, and there are multiple futures […]

30March, 2021

IFIP TC9 Announces Call for Papers for HCC15 in September 2022

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15th Human Choice and Computers Conference (HCC) to explore “Human Choice and Digital by Default: Autonomy vs Digital Determination”

Since the advent of COVID-19, whole sectors of the economy in many countries, or at least   those that can, have been working remotely, from home.  This has brought a whole new meaning to the maxim ‘digital by […]

30March, 2021

TC9 Seeks Affiliated Groups Dedicated to ICT and Society

By |March 30th, 2021|IFIP, Research|0 Comments

Technical Committee 9 (TC9), which is dedicated to supporting research into ICT and Society, is preparing a handbook for current and future researchers. The TC’s active working groups will prepare histories of their various Working Group’s origins, summaries of their activities and publications, and an overview of their research opportunities and challenges.

TC9 would like to […]

30March, 2021

IFIP WG10.4 Stages First Workshop on Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security

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IFIP Working Group 10.4 (Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance) staged a virtual workshop on Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security (IVDS) from 29 Jan-1 Feb 2021, attracting over 60 attendees from 18 time zones spanning North America, Europe, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Taiwan.

The vision of the IVDS project is to realise highly dependable and secure operation […]

26February, 2021

IFIP WG 9.10 Members Win International Cyber Security Competition

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Three members of IFIP Working Group 9.10 (ICT Uses in Peace and War) were part of a team that won the Strategy and Policy track of the Global Cyberpeace Challenge 2.0. The team comprised Dr Brett van Niekerk, Dr Trishana Ramluckan, Mrs Noëlle van der Waag-Cowling, and a master’s candidate.

The team was multi-disciplinary, with Dr […]

26February, 2021

IITPSA Says Failure to Patch and Update Software a Noteworthy Fail

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ICT professionals, security and governance teams have a duty of care to ensure that the systems people depend on are properly patched and updated, and failure to do so might be seen as a failure of both ethics and internal controls.

So says the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA), which was responding to […]

30January, 2021

IFIP Launches Global Code of Ethics for ICT Sector

By |January 30th, 2021|Ethics, IFIP, Professionalism in ICT|0 Comments

Code Sets New Standards for Ethical and Professional Conduct by ICT Practitioners

IFIP, the global professional body for people working in the ICT sector, has announced the launch of its new Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.

IFIP President, Professor Mike Hinchey, said the new Code of Ethics provides a much-needed global standard for the fast-moving technology […]

29January, 2021

IFIP Joint Working Conference 2020 held online

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A Joint Working Conference of IFIP Working Groups 8.2, 9.1 and 9.4 was successfully organised in an online mode from 10-11 December 2020.

The conference took the theme, “The future of digital work: The challenge of inequality”, garnering enthusiastic participation from 108 scholars across 29 countries.

Twenty-two papers were presented in eight presentation sessions and 42 research-in-progress […]