IFIP — Nominierung der Delegierten

The Nomination Procedure for Swiss Delegates to IFIP

Good international cooperation in scientific and professional organizations is mostly based on sound personal contacts over years. Those contacts help to get access to knowledge and to start common projects without many time consuming international meetings.

The Swiss Delegates for the International Federation of Information Processing Societies IFIP typically attend the yearly Meeting of the General Assembly or their Technical Committee (TC) which can take place anywhere on the globe. During the year, however, they keep contact electronically to guide their activities for IFIP - to prepare Events and Publications. This working pattern is so successful that some of our Swiss Delegates stayed in office even over decades.

However after years of service delegates may think about resignation from their office and - on the other hand - other people may be interested to take over such an international office. Therefore the SVI/FSI board, responsible for the election of all Swiss delegates to IFIP, started in 1999 for the first time a public Nominations Procedure to open these positions to interested professionals. As mentioned already, it is important for international contacts to build up long range contact connections. Delegates will therefore be elected first for four years, with possible two years extensions and with exceptional prolongations for IFIP function holders. The new nomination and election process is handled jointly by the boards of SVI/FSI and SARIT according their new rules for The Nomination Procedure for IFIP Delegates from Switzerland.

The following table shows the current delegates with their years of office:

Type	Topic	Delegate	since	IFIP Function	(re-)election due
GA	General Assembly	Raymond Morel	2000	GA Member	2004
TC 2	Software: Theory and Practice	Alfred Strohmeier	2001	delegate	2005
TC 3	Education	Raymond Morel	1981	vice-chairman	delayed (1)
TC 5	Computer Applications in Technology	Esther Gelle	2002	delegate	2006
TC 6	Communication Systems	Harry Rudin	1979	vice-chairman	delayed (1)
TC 7	System Modeling and Optimization	Peter Kall	1980	chairman	delayed (1)
TC 8	Informations Systems	Kurt Bauknecht	1980	delegate	2003
TC 9	Computers and Society	Lorenz Hilty	2000	delegate	2004
TC 10	Computer Systems Technology	Bernhard Eschermann	1999	delegate	2003
TC 11	Security and Protection	Beat Lehmann	1986	delegate	2002
TC 13	Human-Computer Interaction	Matthias Rauterberg	1996	delegate	2003

Remarks:
(1) because of IFIP functions

Invitation for Nominations:
Are you personally interested to take over such an international task? Or do you know somebody suitable and ready for such a task? Please send applications for nominations by e-mail or mail with a short Curriculum vitae, interests in the field and other pertinent information to the IFIP officer of SARIT, Prof. P-A.Bobillier (, 128 route de Soral, 1233 Bernex) who can also provide more information on TC representatives activities.

The board of SVI/FSI The board of SARIT