International Federation for Information Processing
<body> A multinational federation of professional and technical
organisations (or national groupings of such organisations) concerned with
information processing. From any one country, only one such organisation - which
must be representative of the national activities in the field of information
processing - can be admitted as a Full Member. In addition, a regional group of
developing countries can be admitted as a Full Member. On 1 October 1993, 46
organisations were Full Members of the Federation, representing 66 countries.
IFIP was founded under the auspices of UNESCO and advises them and the ITU-T.
http://www.dit.upm.es/~cdk/ifip.html.
(1995-03-10)
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