IFIP membership

IFIP is an international organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Sciences covering five continents with a total membership of over half a million with links to more than 6000 scientists in Academia and Industry, across over 100 Technical Working Groups.

IFIP is headquartered in Austria and established under the auspices of UNESCO in 1960 with consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), UNESCO, and ITU. IFIP is a supporting partner of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and collaborates with the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development and with UNIDO.

The information on IFIP membership procedures are available here ifip.org/membership/.

Membership of the Federation offers member organisations the opportunity and support to:

• Network for the purpose of sharing ICT knowledge and expertise with representatives of more than 40 national and international ICT organisations

• Increase professionalism and professional standards both locally and globally

• Educate and enhance the public and governments' understanding of ICT

• Enable ICT practitioners' skills to be recognised/transferrable globally

• Promote digital equity locally and globally

• Influence developments in ICT through IFIP's involvement with the United Nations and other international bodies

• Access and contribute to a wealth of information held in IFIP's digital library.

  Each member organisation may:

  • Nominate members to any of the Federation's 13 Technical Committees composed of experts in fields ranging from Communication Systems, through Security and Privacy to Artificial Intelligence. Through a network of over 120 Working Groups the Technical Committees are responsible for approximately 100 conferences and other events each year in a wide range of areas.

  • Appoint a representative to InterYIT, the International Young IT Group, which represents the youth of national IT societies from more than 40 countries.

  • Apply for accreditation from IP3, the International Professional Practice Partnership, which defines international standards of professionalism in ICT worldwide.

  • Host or contribute to the IFIP flagship World Computer Congress (WCC). Promote your society/country to a worldwide audience of ICT Professionals from business, industry and academe.

Our policy that all IFIP-approved events worldwide (approximately 100 a year) must offer a discount of at least 10% on registration fees for all individual members of every IFIP member society will help you retain your current members and recruit new ones.