IFIP

• is the leading multinational, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Sciences
• is recognized by United Nations and other world bodies
• has a formal consultative partnership relation with UNESCO
• represents IT Societies from 56 countries or regions, covering all 5 continents with a total membership of over half a million
• links more than 3500 scientists from Academia and Industry, organized in more than 101 Working Groups reporting to 13 Technical Committees
• sponsors 100 conferences yearly providing unparalleled coverage from theoretical informatics to the relationship between informatics and society including hardware and software technologies, and networked information systems