Team South Africa’s Minkyum Kim from Reddam House Durbanville has earned a bronze medal at this year’s International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in Indonesia.
The event, held in in Yogyakarta in Indonesia in mid-August, attracted 349 contestants from 88 countries to participate in six tasks that tested their abilities.
The South African team was selected from among […]
1. Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Smart Business Management
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a revolutionary technology that can learn on its own by analysing and discovering patterns in massive amounts of (big) data. It is the theory and practice of building machines capable of performing tasks that seem to require intelligence. AI is […]
UbiComp 2022, 11—15 Sept.
The 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing will feature workshops on mental health, computing for well-being, technologies for education and learning, physical- and data-driven knowledge, and more. This year UbiComp will again be collocated with the ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), with shared workshops and tutorials. This event […]
ITPNZ (IT Professionals New Zealand) and ACS (Australian Computer Society) have both appointed new CEOs this year after rigorous search processes.
New Zealand – Victoria MacLennan took over the reins at ITPNZ in March this year. She was previously Managing Director of OptimalBI.com (data and information specialists) and OptimalPeople.co.nz (financial services) alongside an equity and inclusion […]
IFIP leaders travelled to Geneva last month to attend the WSIS Forum 2022 organised by ITU. It was wonderful to attend in person and participate after a gap of almost two years.
As part of IFIP’s contribution, its International Young ICT Group – InterYIT – organised a Thematic session on Intellectual Property Rights for Information and […]
On July 7, 2022, UNESCO and the International Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ai movement of the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) in Morocco signed a Strategic and Financial Partnership Agreement for a period of three years to develop a strategic cooperation for capacity building in AI in Africa.
Professor Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Director of […]
IFIP representatives from the ACS (Australian Computer Society), the Australian member society of IFIP, attended a workshop in Sydney on 30 June 2022.
The group discussed the Mission of #IFIP, created under the auspices of UNESCO: to achieve the worldwide professional and socially responsible development and application of information and communication technologies.
Sharon Singh, secretary for TC3 – Education, shared a […]
The Nigeria Computer Society will stage its 2022 International Conference from 2-4 August 2022 at Abeokuta in Ogun State.
With an average of 2000 delegates, the International Conference has become the largest gathering of IT Professionals in Africa and has been pivotal in enabling the NCS to champion and promote IT development in Nigeria.
The 2022 International […]
View ACM’s 75th Anniversary Panels and Talks On Demand
ACM’s 75th Anniversary Celebration was held June 10 in San Francisco. This memorable occasion was not only a remembrance of ACM’s past, but of its current and future endeavors with a full day of panels and speakers discussing some of the most significant topics in computer science […]
Australian tech job numbers continue to boom, with over 1.2 million people expected to be working in the sector by 2027, according to the new ACS Australia’s Digital Pulse 2022 report released in mid-July.
Digital Pulse 2022 reveals technology jobs are paying better than equivalent industries and proposes ways the nation can address the chronic IT worker shortage, […]