-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_tcchairs@ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_tcchairs@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Klaus Brunnstein Sent: terça-feira, 23 de Dezembro de 2003 13:22 To: IFIP-TC-Chairs (IFIP TC Chairs) Cc: Klaus Brunnstein Subject: [IFIP TC chairs] IFIP issues and Seasons Greetings
Dear TC chairs,
at the end of Y2003, I am glad to inform you that projects in 2003 have been mostly very successful:
World Computer Congress 2002: while the legal case concerning open reimbursements are still not finally solved, the issue of the open loan has been settled.
WITFOR-2003 was a great success, both concerning numbers and level of participants (strong Lithuanian and UN involvement, more than 10 ministers, >750 participants). Vilnius Declaration was very well discussed both in UNESCO General Conference (Paris, October 2003) and in the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS-2003).
WSIS-2003: organised by Raymond Morel and Bernard Cornu (TC-3), IFIP made very visible contributions in a roundtable "Education and Knowledge Societies" and 2-day conference
"Engineering the Knowledge Society", and papers of the latter will be published at KAP. Moreover, IFIP´s WCC2-2002 Montreal "Youth Declaration" and WITFOR-2003 "Vilnius Declaration" were ingrediences of UNESCO´s contributions
to the Summit´s final declaration.
Moreover, ongoing projects are well underway:
World Computer Congress 2004: IPC work is well underway, thanx to Jean-Claude (OC chair) and Reino (IPC chair), as you can see when visiting its website: www.wcc2004.org
WIFFOR-2005 and beyond: thanx to Dipak, the WITFOR process continues at high momentum, with WITFOR-2005 being well in preparation. As more interest has been notified even for WITFOR-2007, Dipak has prepared a draft document guiding WITFOR future selection processes.
Publications: following the very good preparation, we received 6 applications including 2 separate ones from the future "new Springer" formed from Kluwer and Springer. Following an evaluation process for which I wish to esp. thank Basie and Dewald who both invested much energy and intelligence, we have selected new Springer (KAP, Springer) and Wiley for indepth discussions. For the new contract, our strategic goals are: IFIP publications as IFIP book series, built upon 250+ IFIP books technical quality of publications electronic distribution of material towards an IFIP Digital Library marketing IFIP as brand name AND sufficient income from royalties.
With Basie and Prince as advisors, I have aksed Roger and Leon (representing TC chairs) to join me in contract discussions primarily with "new Springer". Our goal is to have a draft agreement ready for discussion in Council-2004.
Membership: a solution for the Spanish membership is underway, and ongoing contacts may revive previous memberships (Nigeria, Russia). More contacts may help to improve numbers of members.
Secretariat: we had a first discussion with a potential "head of secretariat". As this was not sucessful, we will now publish a job description in a Viennese newspaper and on IFIP website. Thanx to Roger as well as to Dorothy and Brigitte, secretariat operations are well underway but we hope to support our ladies on-site very soon with a new "head of IFIP secretariat".
With my best wishes for a happy Christmas and a Healthy Year 2004, I hope that IFIP´s progress in 2004 will be at least as good as it was in 2003. Best wishes: Klaus (December 23, 2004)