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Swiss REPORT 2010 to the IFIP General Assembly, Brisbane (AUS) 1

Geneva, 31st of August 2010

IFIP General Assembly

National Report September 2009 - August 2010 Country: SWITZERLAND

Representative : Raymond MOREL (CH)

[email protected]

Table of content :

1. ICTswitzerland recent news 2. The Swiss IFIP Committee (SIC) 3. ICTswitzerland and IFIP 4. The interesting Model for the Swiss Representation within IFIP

managed by SARIT and supported by SATW and SARIT is in danger 5. Swiss Committee for IFIP Activities in 2009 6. Education Committee (KB) of ICTswitzerland: Improving ICT Education & Competency in Switzerland 7. SARIT (Swiss Association for Research in IT) 8. Activities ECDL in Switzerland 2009/2010 9. The Swiss Academy of Engineering sciences (SATW) and the ICT Committee with its 3 working groups

10. Link IP3-CH IFIP Activities IP3 11. Revised Government - Strategy on the Information Society 12. e-Power 13. Refer to my report as TC3 Special Consultant 14. AOB


IFIP FULL MEMBER SOCIETY REPORT 2010 to the General Assembly, Brisbane (after WCCʼ2010) (report to download from http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/pdf/CHReport10GA-IFIPv4.pdf) 8

1. ICTswitzerland recent news

Since six years the Swiss Member of IFIP is ICTswitzerland. The significant change has been the important enlargement of scope from IT to ICT. It encompasses more than 20 organizations with roughly 9'000 personal and 2'000 corporate members. The management team had planned a reorganisation of the federation concentrating all the existing associations in one new entity including personal memberships in addition to the existing member associations. Planned in March 2009 the new scheme was refused by the General Assembly. The reorganisation will be further studied in view of obtaining a unique entity to represent ICT at all level especially vis-à-vis the government authorities. ICTswitzerland priority themes are detailed in its 2009 annual report for ICTswitzerland General Assembly on 24th of March 2010. Some extracts are reproduced here under.

http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/pdf/Jahresbericht_ICTswitzerland_2009. pdf


http://www.ictswitzerland.ch/de/ict-fakten/facts-figures


http://www.ictswitzerland.ch/files/downloads/download_0849313001269588042.pdf


http://www.ictswitzerland.ch/files/downloads/download_0246096001271834736.pdf

2. The Swiss IFIP Committee (SIC)


The Swiss IFIP Committee (SIC) is one of the Commissions of ICTswitzerland Its members are the Swiss delegates to the IFIP General Assembly and to the IFIP Technical Committees. It meets once a year to discuss the annual reports of the TC rep's, past and future activities, participation in Swiss associations and events, issues with IFIP and its TC's, etc.. This paper describes briefly the IFIP Federation and its various bodies, various aspects of the Swiss participation and contributions to IFIP, the associated amount of efforts and tries to emphasise the value for Switzerland of this participation. 3. ICTswitzerland and IFIP Very active in IFIP since its creation in 1960 and although not part of the European Community, Switzerland has not only been a founder of IFIP but has continued to contribute towards its objectives and activities without interruption through the personal involvement of its representatives: - active presence in the Executive Board and the Council and 3 Presidents covering a period of 12 years. - R.Morel, Swiss representative to the IFIP GA since 1999, is Board Member and Councillor since August 2004. - Bernard Eschermann was elected in 2009 as Councillor to the IFIP Board. - Strong and active Swiss presence in the Technical Committees and Working Groups dealing with matters of interest to Switzerland.

Today, 80 specialists from Swiss Academia and industry are participating in 11 TC's and 39 WG's. 2 Swiss rep are TC chairmen, 1 rep is Secretary and 2 reps are also special consultants.


The TC representatives are appointed by ICTswitzerland, the Swiss Member of IFIP. The WG members are individual specialists accepted by the WG's for their expertise (there is no country limitation on their number). The personal involvement and the efforts of these specialists contribute, through their international contacts with leading experts, to acquiring and bringing to Switzerland knowledge on new technology developments and strategies discussed within IFIP Working Groups. They are the ambassadors of Switzerland to the TC's and WG's and contribute to the maintenance and improvement of the Swiss international image. This is especially true in areas such as Education, Communications (infrastructure, financial access, etc..), Security, Software, Human aspects, etc.. which present important potential for Switzerland. Support for these international activities is therefore very important to allow the continuation of an active Swiss participation in the international IFIP activities in all areas of ICT. The Swiss Committee for IFIP is thankful to the SATW (http://www.satw.ch/), SARIT http://www.sarit.ch/and, of course, to the employers of the IFIP delegates; without such support they could not pursue their mission. We have tried hereunder to evaluate the overall effort represented by the activities of the delegates to IFIP functions. The Swiss delegates are appointed for a period of 4 years renewable by periods of 2 years. The names of the Swiss TC and Working Groups representatives are published on the ICTswitzerland Web site (http://www.ictswitzerland.ch/de/kommissionen/swiss-ifip-committee)

The main functions of a Swiss IFIP TC representative are : - to assure the both ways communications between Switzerland and his TC (information to the Technical Committee about latest developments and concerns in Switzerland and information to the interested parties in Switzerland about the TC activities), - organise TCmeetings and events in Switzerland when feasible, etc... For more information: http://www.ictswitzerland.ch/de/kommissionen/swiss-ifip-committee/aufgaben and


http://www.ictswitzerland.ch/de/kommissionen/swiss-ifip-committee/regeln Current Delegates to IFIP (GA and TC's) http://www.ictswitzerland.ch/de/kommissionen/swiss-ifip-committee/tcmitglieder

4. The interesting Model for the Swiss Representation within IFIP managed by SARIT and supported by SATW and SARIT is in danger

One of the member societies of ICTswitzerland is SARIT (Swiss Association for Research in Information Technology) of which all Swiss university professors in Computer Science are members. SARIT is the natural body to take care of the scientific international contacts of ICTswitzerland, including those to IFIP and to ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics). Its Board has received the delegated responsibility for the operational duties of the Swiss representation to IFIP. SARIT and SATW contribute a part of the costs of the Swiss IFIP representation. Within SARIT and ICTswitzerland, the "Swiss IFIP Committee" (SIC) - see below - encompasses the Swiss Delegates to IFIP's General Assembly and TCs. http://www.sarit.ch/ifip/index.htmland http://www.ictswitzerland.ch/de/kommissionen and http://www.ictswitzerland.ch/de/kommissionen/swiss-ifip-committee Yearly spendings of Swiss IFIP delegates : in order to get an evaluation of the importance of resources spent by IFIP delegates to TC's and WG's a survey is repeated on a regular basis. The delegates are asked how much they spend annually in: - Person days (meeting attendance, home work, reports, meeting preparation, etc..) and - Travel expenses (airline/train tickets, hotel and meals, registration fees or receptions for invitees, etc..) The numbers vary significantly; for example, the time spent varies from 5 to 50 days/year. The maximum happens when the TC rep has several IFIP functions (for example Council Member, TC Officer, etc..) or when in charge of organising an IFIP event in Switzerland. The last evaluation was done for the year 2006. The resulting average numbers were the following per delegate : Persondays: 22 Associated cost (hypothesis: 120 kfr/year): 11.0 kfr. Tavel expenses: airline: 1.8 kfr. Hotel and meals: 2.5 kfr. Registration fees, receptions for invitees, etc.. : 1.0 kfr. Total expenses per TC/WG representative: 16.3 kfr/person/year We have today (as of January 2010) 80 specialists from Swiss Academia and industry participating in 11 TC's and 39 WG's. This represents a total Swiss effort of approximately 1'304’000 fr/year of which 144 kfr for airline tickets. These activities would of course be impossible without the IFIP delegates employers. They however tend to restrict allowing "free time" to their employees for obvious reasons. They are of course encouraged when at least the travel tickets for the TC delegates (although a small part of the total) are in principle supported by SATW (20 kFr. via ICTswitzerland) and SARIT (5 kFr.). Both organisations have to be thanked for their valuable support. Here it must be said it’s a pitty that SATW has decided last year unilateraly to cancel the contract with ICTswitzerland which was the base for the contribution of 20 kFr / year mentioned above. This was made without consulting or informing SIC. It obviously creates a serious problem for the future international activities of the IFIP Swiss delegates to Technical Ctees since 2010. We are trying to find a solution because it is quite clear that ICTswitzerland is not with a great interest for international activities. We hope to be able to announce next year a good news.


It must be noted however that no support is provided to the members of Working Groups. Their expenses have therefore to be totally covered by their employer. The current status (travel tickets paid for the TC delegates) allows some freedom in the nomination of TC rep's. The reduction of such support would mean to restrict the selection of new TC rep's to persons fully supported by their employers (a questionable solution!) or to drop the Swiss representation to some Technical Committees. The support by employers to their employees international activities is a very important contribution for the whole Switzerland: they contribute to the Swiss reputation and image, to fruitful international experience exchange and to allow valuable information to be brought back to Switzerland, etc.. They therefore deserve our most sincere thanks for their valuable contributions.

5. Swiss Committee for IFIP Activities in 2009 SIC is the name of ICTswitzerland's committee for IFIP. Its members are the delegates to IFIP Technical ctees and to the GA. and meet once a year. ICT Switzerland is represented in TC 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13. As mentionned above, today 80 specialists from Swiss Academia and industry are participating in these 11 TC's and 39 WG's. The TC representatives are appointed by ICTswitzerland, the Swiss Member of IFIP. 2 Swiss rep are TC chairmen, 1 rep is Secretary and 2 reps are also special consultants. Besides their current activities (reported in their annual reports) such as participation to their TC meetings, the TC representatives were particularly active in 2009 either by holding a TC executive position or in organising important events. This section gives an overview of the most important activities and events : The annual meeting took place in Bern on December 2nd, 2009 attended by seven members. Highlights from IFIP in general : • Feedback from the last IFIP Board, March 2009, New Delhi http://www.ifip.org/images/stories/ifip/public/publications/minutes/Board2008/board 2009 minutes.pdf • Decisions at GA, August 2009 in Hanoi. http://www.ifip.org/images/stories/ifip/public/publications/minutes/GA2009/ga%202009%20minutes.pdf • Implementation of a New IFIP strategy and restructuring of the Council into the Board with 8 councillors instead of eight trustees (http://www.ifip.org/images/stories/ifip/public/projects/ifiprestructversion5.pdf) • The IFIP AGORA initiative on LifeLong Learning ( http://www.ifip-tc3.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=60) • International Professional Practice Programme (I3P) - (http://www.ifip.org/images/stories/ifip/public/about_ifip/how_to_join_us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=122) • Preparation of World IT Forum (WITFOR’2009) at Hanoi (end of August 2009) http://www.witfor.org/ Extracts from 2009 TC Swiss Rep reports Here after, only items of special interest or open problems are mentioned. Details to be found in the individual distributed reports. TC1 (Foundations of Computer Science) - J.Rolim report: IFIP Special Seminars at Geneva University: Knowledge Discovery and Management in Life Sciences, August 20th, 2009, with Prof. A. Famili, Senior

Research Scientist, Group Leader for the Knowledge Discovery Group and a leading data mining expert working at the Institute for Information Technology (IIT) of the National Research Council of Canada


(NRC). Smart Sensors and CS: Interactions and Challenges towards the Internet of Things, February 25th, 2009,

with Professor Sotiris Nikoletseas, Professor at the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department of Patras University, Greece and Director of the CTI SensorsLab, Editor of the Encyclopedia of Algorithms by Springer Verlag.

Datasetoids: obtaining more data for empirical studies in machine learning, March 6th, 2009, with Prof. Carlos Soares, Professor, Faculty of Economics and Laboratory of Artifical Intelligence and Decision Support (LIADD), University of Porto.

Divulgation at the TC1 activities at the following conferences: IEEE DCOSS: The 5th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems

(DCOSS '09), Island of Marina del Rey, California, June 2009 WEA 2009: The 7th Workshop on Experimental Algorithms took place on May 2009 in Dortmund,

Germany. The WEA Workshops are intended to be an international forum for researchers in the area of experimental evaluation and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of computational optimization and its applications.

ICALP 2009: The 35th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming. the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science EATCS took place during July 2009 in Crete, Greece.

Random-Approx 09: The Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems - APPROX 2009 and the Workshop on Randomization and Computation - RANDOM 2009 was held at the UC Berkeley , during August 2009. APPROX'2009 focuses on algorithmic and complexity theoretic issues relevant to the development of efficient approximate solutions to computationally difficult problems, while RANDOM'2009 focuses on applications of randomness to computational and combinatorial problems.

TC2 (Software: Theory and Practice) - B. Meyer, Swiss rep and Chair of TC 2 report: Global context The major TC2 event for 2009 has been the change of officers. Following the resignation of Robert Meersman as TC2 chair, a new slate was elected. The reason for this mass renewal is that the vice chairs and secretary felt that since the cause of Meersman's resignation was a major clash with the IFIP president (Basie von Solms) it would be better for them not to continue, lest they be perceived by IFIP as "Meersman's men". Better, in their view, to start with completely new officers. I am the new chair; the Vice Chair is Michael Goedicke (University of Duisburg-Essen, http://www.icb.uni-due.de/forschungsgruppen/) and the Secretary is Jerzy Nawrocki, University of Poznán While not involved in the controversy that led to Meersman's resignation, we have made it clear that we share the underlying concerns, which beyond any personal conflicts (of which all three of us are fortunately free, being new to the IFIP higher structure) result from IFIP's current problems and are not going away with any one person. Activities - The TC2 annual meeting was held in Zurich in June. Minutes, due to Nawrocki's diligent work, capture the activities of TC2 from June 2008 to June 2009, available upon request. - Major development since June: preparation of the launching of a new working group on Verified Software, common to TC1 and TC2. This is the result of Tony Hoare's "Verifying Compiler Grand Challenge", which I hope is by now known to many recipients of this email. - The Grand Challenge was launched at the VSTTE conference (Verified Software: Theories, Tools, Experiments) which I organized at ETH in 2005; the proceedings are LNCS 4171, see http://www.springer.com/computer/programming/book/978-3-540-69147-1. Hoare pushed for the creation of a new WG which would function somehow differently from most existing IFIP groups: meeting more often, having more members, working towards a concrete project (the construction of a repository of global activities). - The Software Verification group was approved by TC 1 in 2008. Approval by TC 2 was delayed (officers' resignation, concerns by members of WG 2.3 (programming methodology) about the creation of the new group and perceived competition, fear that members would either defect to the new WG or be torn between the two groups. The decision will be made by TC 2. I felt (both in my TC 2 capacity and as a member of 2.3 myself) that we should not rush the process, but instead give WG 2.3 members the opportunity to discuss the matter extensively and to bestow on the group's officers a mandate representing the members' official position.


The promoters of the proposed Software Verification WG were kind enough to accept this extra step, even though it delays the creation of their group. A discussion and vote are now proceeding in WG 2.3, with a final resolution expected shortly; happily, it looks like 2.3 will not oppose the new WG. Since similar problems might also arise with WG 2.1 (which also has a significant software verification activity) the WG 2.1 officers have been asked to express their own group's position in advance of the meeting. I am looking forward to a long-overdue resolution of this matter and to the launching of an exciting new group under the joint umbrella of TC1 and TC2. Current text of the Software Verification group proposal upon request.. Swiss Activities - I am not aware of TC 2 conferences in Switzerland this year. - In criticisms of my report last year I was asked to include mentions of non-IFIP events in TC2-related areas. I am afraid that the ones that come to mind are events in which I have had a hand, in particular TOOLS EUROPE 2009, June 2009, ETH, on Object and Component Technology, http://tools.ethz.ch/ and associated conferences: SEAFOOD (on Distributed Software Engineering and Outsourcing, http://seafood.ethz.ch/2009/; TAP (Tests And Proofs, http://tap.ethz.ch/2009/); Software Composition http://www.2009.software-composition.org/, with a strong Swiss participation, e.g. Thomas Gschwind and Oscar Nierstrasz are both on the steering committee -- the conference joined TOOLS for the first time). All these conferences had Springer proceedings (LNCS or LNBIP). TOOLS is thriving and is for the first time in recent years leaving Zurich in 2010 (Málaga, June-July); the associated conferences follow, except SEAFOOD which goes to Saint Petersburg (http://seafood.ethz.ch/2010/). - Also important to mention is the LASER summer school on software engineering, taking place in Elba (Italy) but organized by ETH; this year's school (still shown at http://se.inf.ethz.ch/laser/2009/index.php) had two speakers from Switzerland, Mauro Pezzé from Lugano and me. Next year's summer school will be particularly exciting, with the theme "empirical software engineering" and such speakers as Barry Boehm, Watts Humphrey, Nachi Nagappan and Vic Basili, one more as yet unconfirmed speaker and the inevitable me. - One initiative that we are hosting for 2010 is SEMAT (Software Engineering Method And Theory, http://www.semat.org, started by Ivar Jacobson, Richard Soley and me to try to provide a more solid basis for software engineering, across the academia-industry divide. There will be a workshop in Zurich in March, where many of the leading methodologists will be present. - WG 2.3 is organizing its next meeting in Zurich, earlier in March, hosted by Peter Müller from ETH. - We had a little software verification festival this Fall at ETH with the FATS seminar (http://se.ethz.ch/fats/) where the invitees included such luminaries as Mike Gordon, Patrick Cousot, Gilles Barthe, Jim Woodcock, Carroll Morgan, Armin Biere, Daniel Kröning, Cristiano Calcagno, Joël Ouaknine, and Mauro Pezzè again. Apologies again for the ETH-centric nature of this list, I already have trouble enough to keep up with our own activities and certainly missed some important ones from other sources. I will revise and extend this report if I find out about such omissions. TC 3 – R.Morel, Swiss rep and Councillor in the IFIP Board, report: Extracts from TC 3 Annual meeting: 24-25 July 2009, Bento Gonçalves, Brazil…. - TC3 Officers ... (cf. IFIP Bulletin) - WG Reports ... (cf. TC3 chair report at GA) - The Bento Gonçalves Recommendation for Action

At WCCE 2005, in Stellenbosch, South Africa, we designed the “Stellenbosch Declaration”, as an output of the WCCE. The declaration presented the main trends and recommendations about ICT in Education, and was structured in 6 main axes: 1. Digital Solidarity (Give all pupils in the World the right to take part in the Digital Society, in the Knowledge society) 2. Learners and Lifelong Learning (Every pupil is a Lifelong Learner) 3. Decision-making Strategies (Link practitioners, researchers and decision-makers ; make them participate in the elaboration of a « vision ») 4. Networking (Develop networks in order to develop collective intelligences) 5. Research (Develop Research, realignment of research priorities) 6. Teachers (The major role of teachers as agents of changes in educational systems). Following the same process (gathering main ideas from all speakers at WCCE 2009, all


session chairs, and many participants), TC3 produced as an output of WCCE 2009 the “Bento Gonçalves Declaration for Action”: Moving the 4 pillars of Education to the digital age. The declaration addresses 8 main topics and formulates recommendations and possible actions: 1. The learner (Personal skills; Motivation, reflection, critical thinking; The new generation) 2. The teacher (Pedagogy; Appropriate Teacher Education; Networking the teachers) 3. Initiatives (Ethics and Digital Solidarity; National initiatives and policy making (Example: CEIBAL, Uruguay); Parents; The IFIP AGORA Initiative - Ateliers and Studios) 4. Curriculum (and competencies) (Informatics / Computer Science; Digital Literacy; History of Computing) 5. Professionalism (Mobility of professionals (Ex: Latin American and Caribbean people); Collaboration) 6. Learning Environments (Open and distance Learning; Design; Web 2.0; LO, LMS, standards; Content and Resource discovery; Multimedia, new technologies) 7. Research (More research needed: Pedagogy, Digital literacy, New forms of interactions, Longitudinal studies; Applied Research; Collaboration Research / Schools) 8. Collaborative Communities (Share resources ; Social networks (and LLL); Collaborative learning).

- TC3 Country Reports - Reflection on Memberships of TC3 Working Groups

o Full member of a Working Group o Corresponding member of a Working Group o Junior member

- TC3 – History of Computers in Education Project o Collection/assembly of historical artefacts o Publications

- Budget - TC3 Newsletter - TC 3 Conference Management System (Icms) - TC3 has permanent connection with UNESCO: - Liaison with EU - The AGORA Initiative and the ANDIL project. - The EAIT Journal. - Web-page… and the use of new technology for a better TC!

Activities around the TC3 • ITU-UNESCO-UNCTAD facilitators for WSIS (World Summit of Information Society) are evaluating in

mid-September 08 the model of annual WSIS clusters (2-3 weeks) in May (06-07-08) and transform them into a annual one week WSIS Forum (for the next May 09 edition)

• London 16-18 SIG 3.9 / TC3 Project e-start link with EU projects. It was also the kickoff for the new SIG 3.9 International Conference on Digital Literacy, 17-18 November 2008, Brunel University, London, UK “Pursuing Digital Literacy in the 21st Century: Reconstructing the School to provide Digital Literacy for All”

• http://www.estart-net.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129&Itemid=84 • Some brief inputs over a rich cooperation from IFIP with UNESCO at the XXIst centuary (ideas

collected throught the TC3 executive meeting held in Poitiers 16th-18th of December 2008) • TC3 executive meeting in Paris (December 16-18 , 2008) :

Preparation of the Bento Gonçalves annual meeting in July 09 Relationship with Head of Unesco Preparation of the IPC meeting in Linz (February 09) Preparation of the WCCE’2009 (July 09) Preparation of other events for the IFIP AGORA initiative

• Paradiso 21-23 January 2009 at Brussels link with EU projects http://www.paradiso-fp7.eu/

• Linz 19-22 February 2009 IPC (international programme committee) for WCCE 2009 in Brazil : final reviewing and final programme

• As councillor, participation to the IFIP Board 2009 in New-Delhi (5-7.3.09) • AGORA workshop in front of the IFIP Board 2009 in New-Delhi (2-4.3.09) with IIT (Indian Institute of

Technology)


• 2 links with important EU projects : The MATURE Project http://www.mature-ip.eu/ http://www.ifip-tc3.net/IMG/ppt/6JMmature_agora_final.ppt The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/ http://www.ifip-tc3.net/IMG/pdf/eJOV10_SPILL8_Mulder_Velthausz_Kriens_Harmonization%20Cube.pdf

• Project Mature : IFIP and AGORA Initiative on Lifelong Learning is agreed as Associate Member of this important EU Project

• Lisboa 22-24 April 2009 presentation AGORA activities during m-ICTE 2009. V International Conference on Multimedia and ICT in Education http://www.formatex.org/micte2009/ link with EU projects

• Geneva 18-25 May at ITU WSIS Forum Evaluation of the work done in each Action Line + opening by Unesco of a collaborative plateform http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/2009/forum/geneva/agenda.html http://www.wsis-community.org/

• Geneva 25-29 May 2009 CSTD (Commission on Science and Technology for Development, twelfth session http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?intItemID=3402&m=16980&info=not&lang=1

• Leiden 22-24 June 2009 presentation AGORA activities during ICE 2009 – PROGRAMME “Collaborative Innovation: Emerging Technologies, Environments and Communities” A joint conference with: IEEE - TMC Europe 2009 ENOLL Dutch Living Lab IFIP/IFAC ICEIMT 2009 Series IMS Leiden/Noordwijk, The Netherlands 22-24 June 2009

http://www.ice-conference.org link with EU projects • LYON meetings at the World Digital Solidarity Agency : 13 October 2008, 12 January 09,

3 July 2009 and 16 October 2009 • Bento Gonçalves (Brazil) 24-26 + 31 July

TC3 meetings before and after the WCCE’2009 (cf. annex 3 – extracts of TC3 report to GA’09) • Bento Gonçalves (Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Brazil, July 27th – 31st, 2009.

9th WCCE’09 (World Conference on Computer in Education) Title: Education and Technology for a better world Website: http://www.wcce2009.org/

• The Bento Gonçalves Recommendation for Action (cf. above) Moving the “4 pillars of Education” to the digital age

http://www.ifip-tc3.net/article.php3?id_article=201 • ATHENS : 4th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (25-27 September 2009) in

collaboration with IFIP and TC9 http://www.mcis2009.org

• KRAKOW AGORA seminar 28-30 October 2009 2nd International Scientific Conference: Changes in Education Nowadays: Digital Potential versus Cognitive Traps Key Competencies in the Knowledge Society for e-Inclusion http://www.ifip-tc3.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=67 to come always in 2009 :

• STRASBOURG : Forum « Green and connected cities » (10-11 December 2009) • POITIERS : TC3 executive meeting in Paris (December 17-19 , 2009) The IFIP AGORA initiative on LifeLong Learning in 2009 Activities : http://www.ifip-tc3.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=60

- 2009 Agora Workshop - 2-4 March, New-Delhi – India http://www.ifip-tc3.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=61 - 2009 Agora - Presentation at m-ICTE’2009 Lisboa http://www.ifip-tc3.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=68 - 2009 6 Workshops - July 27-31, Bento Goncalves – Brazil http://www.ifip-tc3.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=62 - 2009 WITFOR - August 26-28, Hanoi – Vietnam


http://www.ifip-tc3.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=63 - 2009 Seminar in Krakow, 28-30 October http://www.ifip-tc3.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=67

Miscellaneous Various articles in CH newspapers Diffusion of the information regarding the IFIP proceedings Maintenance of the TC-3 Web site Establishing links between EU R&D programs and TC3 community for projects

and more generally links between new projects and TC3 community Strong contribution to the National Task Force activities for « ICT and Education » -->

spreading IFIP's ideas for integration after the last WC’s. Since November 2005 the Board was upgraded to a permanent National and Legal Board (SKIB) for ICT in the whole domain of Education with all the partners (Federal Office for Telecom – OFCOM/BAKOM, the State Secretary for Sciences and Research – SER, the National Office for Professional Technology – OFFT/BBT, the Federal Office of Statistics – OFS/BFS, the teachers trade unions, the head of the National Educational Network and ICTswitzerland. The chairman of SKIB is the General Secretary of the 26 Ministers of Education SKIB = (Schweizerischen Koordinationskonferenz ICT und Bildung)

Hundreds of messages with e-mail Active participation for diffusion of all informations for forthcoming IFIP events (usual tasks :

call for papers, preliminary program, reviewing, organisation of the national contribution, then post-conference feed-back)

Presentation of the Swiss IP3-ch report to the Advisory Board of ICTswitzerland Meetings with the SI Committee (Swiss Informatics Society) and KB (special interest group for

Kommission ICT Bildung) and meetings with the ICTswitzerland Committee – elaboration of a code of ethics. SI is the leader for ECDL

Report (meeting in Bern) at the Swiss Committee for IFIP and Networking Party January 2008 organised by ICTswitzerland (more than 800 participants of all domains (industries, education, business, decision-makers, politicians, etc.)

TC 5 (Information Technology Applications) - Ph. Dallemagne report:

During the 49th TC5 meeting in Valencia, Philippe Dallemagne was elected as TC 5 Secretary.

Activities in 2009:

The Executive Committee met in Washington in March 2009. Since most of the participants could not attend the physical meeting, a phone conference was also organised.

A phone conference took place on May 16th for discussing: - elections of officers, - SIG on e-governance and bio-informatics and TC5 website.

Erich Neuhold was elected chair of TC5 with thanks to Ron Waxman, former TC5 Chair.

Gaetano Cascini was appointed Communication officer, replacing Nadia Magnenat-Thalman.

Two awards as best speakers were attibuted for a total of 1500 Euros.

The TC5 website has been launched. Its structure has been defined and implemented by the indian members (Rattan Datta and his colleagues). Its content is improving with the material provided by each TC5 WG and SIG.

E-governance: the GA requeste that the formation of the SIG on e-governance was accompanied by a liaison action between TC5 (Rattan Datta) and the other interested Tcs.

TC5 and TC12 launched a common action for the creation of an IFIP “SIG” about Bioinformatics. The 1st IFIP International Conference on Bioinformatics will be held in Surat, Gujarat, India, on March 25-28, 2010.

There is also an on-going action for forming a SIG on “Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture”. This action is in its early infancy, ideas and contributions on the subject are welcome.

The 49th meeting of TC5 was held in Valencia, Spain, October 15-16, 2009. The official minutes of the meeting are still under preparation. The following paragraphs list the main items and complements the minutes.

A number of reports [TC5ValenciaReports 09] were provided by the Ron Waxman, former TC5 Chair, to the meeting attendees in Valencia. They are available upon request at the TC5 secretary.

Role of the Swiss representation in TC5


The role of the Swiss delegate in TC5 is now much clearer, since he has been appointed Secretary of TC5. Participation to the WG 5.11 on environmental applications is still considered, although difficult to implement due to time constraints.

Future actions

Next event PROLAMAT 2010.

Meeting TC5 executive Committee on April, 9th 2010.

50th anniversary of TC5: meeting in Vienna (Austria), October 14th, 2010

TC 6 (Communications Systems) – H Rudin report: TC6, the Technical Committee on Communications Systems, is an active technical committee which orchestrates some two dozen international conferences and workshops a year. One of the goals of TC6 is to offer its technical know-how to developing countries; to this end it organizes meetings and tutorials in developing countries and even has a working group (WG6.9) with this as its major objective. The IFIP digital library continues to be a huge disappointment. Have a look at http://dl.ifip.org/ A few days ago there were long lists of errors. I discussed this with Joe Turner and today there is an announcement “Due to technical …..” Several of us in TC6 find this is a scandal. After all we bill ourselves in IFIP so: "IFIP is the leading multinational, apolitical organization in information and communications technologies and sciences." Many members of TC6 would be willing to do without printed versions. Perhaps we could discuss this at our Swiss Committee for IFIP meeting. Attached is some of my correspondence with Joe Turner to promote the discussion. A request The undersigned would appreciate receiving Swiss research items for ERCIM News ! ERCIM News articles typically are well-ranked by Google, so this is a good opportunity to describe your research in a one- or one-and-a-half page article. ERCIM News is also a good medium for announcing conferences to be held in Switzerland. Contributions should be sent to [email protected]. (Please see http://ercim-news.ercim.org/)

Correspondence with Joe Turner regarding IFIP’s digital library, 16-17 Nov., 2009:

Harry, No apologies are needed. You are not speaking out of turn: we always appreciate feedback relative to IFIP publications (and other IFIP operations as well), especially from active IFIP volunteers. I do remember our previous emails regarding the possibility of using Google as a venue for our DL. Unfortunately we do not have the option presently to have no publications contract with a publisher. TC6 is somewhat alone, or at least in the minority, over the importance of print publications. For example, not only did most of the TCs insist on having printed proceedings by Springer for the 17 TC streams at WCC 2010, but some also insisted on having actual printed proceedings books distributed at the conference instead of distributing CDs. (The proceedings will be printed and distributed by Springer and put into the Springer DL regardless of the medium distributed at the conference.) The insistence of the majority of TCs on having a publisher for print proceedings, along with the revenue that IFIP and the TCs receive from printed proceedings, makes it impossible at this time not to have an IFIP publisher. As I said to Guy in an email message earlier today, I agree completely that the current IFIP DL is a disgrace. As with many things, the reasons are more complex than they should be, and I will not go into all of the details here. The combination of the unexpected transfer of publication operations from Springer-Norwell to Springer Verlag in Heidelberg beginning early this year, along with a reluctance of our ACS DL management to address problems until all new procedures and electronic file formats have been decided, have been primary contributors to the problem. But I also take responsibility for my decision not to pressure the ACS to take actions that might have to be redone, because we have been promised decisions and information from Springer that still have not


materialized. It is true that the publishing world is changing, but it is not clear how it will eventually end up. ACM and the IEEE-CS, for example, have no plans to eliminate print publications, nor for open access to their DLs. We are trying to develop strategic plans within IFIP that will accommodate a publications revenue stream of zero if that is the way that things go, but until we have support from the TCs (including a willingness to give up the publications revenue), we will not be able to move in that direction. We also have discussed the possibility of having advertising in our DL, but there also has been great resistance to that within IFIP, especially given that the opinion from experts is that it will be very difficult, if not illegal, to censor potential advertisers in order to ensure "related" advertising in the DL. (Of course, it is possible to refuse advertising of things that are illegal or even immoral or unethical, but evidently not ads for legal products and services). Thanks again for your interest and for pushing these issues. I will try to work something out with our DL management to at least get the errors corrected, and hopefully the poor format and organization problems as well. Joe.

Harry Rudin wrote:

Dear Joe, Please forgive me for speaking out of turn. The reason is, as you just heard from Guy Leduc, that I find the IFIP Digital Library's state nonprofessional and upsetting. Several years ago I raised the idea of going to Google (or some other similar organization for that matter) and asking them to run our digital library for us. I even went so far as to contact someone at Google asking about possibilities. I made it clear that I was in no way in a position to speak for IFIP but just wanted to explore ideas. I noticed that two weeks after one of our TC6 conferences, most papers were available on the Web, and this with just a very rudimentary search. It seemed to me that it would not be very difficult to produce conference proceedings in this manner. I mentioned that IFIP had a contract with a publisher and, to my surprise, Google refused further discussion as long as IFIP had a contract with a publisher. This was back in 2005. And, I gather we are again about to sign a contract with Springer. The publishing world is changing. It would be great and fitting if IFIP, as the leading organization we claim to be, worked in anticipation of these changes! One could even think of allowing the organizer of such an IFIP digital library to put related advertising alongside the listing of documents or the documents themselves as a potential source of revenue for IFIP. If nothing else, please think of using such an idea to at least get us better conditions from Springer --- or from whomever. With best regards, Harry

TC 7 (System Modeling and Optimization) no report from H.Luethi who terminates his assignment Dec 31st 2009. TC 8 (Information Systems) – Y.Pigneur report: The TC8 memberships To my knowledge, the following researchers are the active Swiss members of the Working Groups of TC8: WG 8.1 (Design and Evaluation of Information Systems) Swiss members: - Michel Léonard, University of Geneva, [email protected]. - Yves Pigneur, University of Lausanne, [email protected]. - Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, [email protected], Secretary of WG 8.1 WG 8.3 (Decision Support Systems) Swiss members: - Robert Winter, University of St-Gallen, [email protected]


WG 8.4 (E-Business Information Systems: Multi-disciplinary research and practice) Swiss members: - Reinhard Riedl, University of Zürich, [email protected]. WG 8.5 (Information Systems in Public Administration) Swiss members: - Jean-Loup Chappelet, IDHEAP, [email protected] - Reinhard Riedl, University of Zürich, [email protected]. WG 8.8 (Smart Cards) Swiss members: - Micheal Waidner, IBM, [email protected] in IS Swiss IS community: The following universities contribute to the Swiss IS community and offer a Master program in Information Systems: - University of Berne, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik: Master "Information Systems/Wirtschaftsinformatik" - University of Fribourg, Department of Informatics/IS research group: Master “Information Systems/Informatique de gestion” - University of Geneva, HEC Genève - Information Systems: Master “Sciences des services” - University of Lausanne, Information Systems Institute: Master of Science in Information Systems - University of St. Gallen, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik: Master's program in Information, Media and Technology Management - University of Zurich, Department of Informatics: Master of Science in Computer Science (Information Systems - ETH Zurich, Institute of Information Systems: Pilot-Master in Information Systems IS journal: “Electronic Markets - The International Journal” is a quarterly journal edited at the University of St. Gallen. The journal is published by Routledge, and part of the Taylor and Francis Publishing group. TC8 member (University of Lausanne) Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Systèmes d’information et management”, leading journal for the French chapter of AIS. Past and future TC8 events WG 8.5: Scandinavian Workshop on E-Government 2009, 2-3 Feb 2009 WG 8.3: Workshop on Case Studies in Decision Making and Decision Support, Norway, 21-24 Apr 2009 TC8 Working Conference on Information Systems Security Research, South Africa, 29-30 May 2009 WG 8.1: EMMSAD 09: International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design, Netherlands, 8-9 Jun 2009 WG 8.2: Working Conference on The Role of IS in leveraging intelligence and creativity in SMEs, 21-24 Jun 2009 WG 8.9: Working Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2009), Hungary, 28-30 Oct 2009 WG 8.1: The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: from Business Strategies to Enterprise Architectures (POEM 2009), 18-19 Nov 2009 WG 8.2: OASIS Workshop, US, 14 Dec 2009 WG 8.2 + 8.6: Human Benefit Through the Diffusion of IS Design Science Research, Australia, Mar30/April 4, 2010 WG 8.8 + 11.2: 9th Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference (CARDIS 2010), Germany, 13-16 April 2010 TC8 Doctoral Consortium (before ECIS 2010), South Africa, 4-6 June 2010 WG 8.3: Bridging the socio-technical gap in DSS: challenges for the next decade, Portugal, 10 July 2010 WG 8.9: Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2010), Brazil, 21-23 Aug 2010 TC8 Working Conference on Global IS Processes (GISP), Australia (before WCC2010), 20-23 Sep 2010. A one day Doctoral Consortium will precede this conference http://www.wcc2010.org/migrated/GISP/GISP_cfp.html TC8 Meeting Budapest, October 31- November 1st 2009: Details available upon request Activities in 2009 No IFIP conference organized in Switzerland. However strong implication of TC8 members in - CAISE’2009 (scientific committee, ancillary conference chair, …), - ICIS’2008 Paris (doctoral consortium, journal editors, ancillary conferences, …), - ECIS’2009 (AE, …)

Misc. From SPRINGER: “I’m happy to send along an exciting update! Attached, please find an announcement from Springer of the new IFIP corner of the Computer Science Reading Room. By becoming a member of the CSRR, IFIP members, authors, contributors and editors can access the 14 volumes of the 2008 World Computer Congress for a limited


time. Also in the CSRR is a link to Education and Information Technologies and the original volumes that have always been available to the community.” Plans for the future - With the support of IFIP TC8, the University of Geneva & the University of Lausanne, with the CRPHT at Luxembourg, will organize the First International Conference on Exploring Services Sciences (IESS 1.0) on February 17-19, 2010 at Geneva http://iess.unige.ch/ - Not supported by IFIP but related to information systems, the University of Saint-Gallen will organize the Fifth DESRIST Conference (Design Science Research in Information Systems) on June 4-5, 2010 at St- Gallen http://2010.desrist.org/ - Several open positions in information systems in Switzerland, announced on SARIT distribution list, will be soon fulfilled: - University of Geneva: 2 open positions in service science; - University of Lausanne: 2 open positions in information systems - E-Government and E-Services (EGES), conference at WCC 2010, is a cooperation of a number of groups that already have well-established activities in the field of e-government, e-governance, e-business, e-tcetera. Notably WG 8.5 (Information Systems in Public Administration) and WG 6.11 (Communication, Information and Security Aspects of E-Business, E-services and E-society) and the CSI SIG on E-Governance (Computer Society of India Special Interest Group on E-Governance) http://www.wcc2010.org/migrated/EGES/EGES_cfp.html TC 9 (Relationship between Computers and Society) L.Hilty: no report submitted. He indicated he resigns as TC 9 Swiss rep after the next TC 9 meeting and will continue only as WG 9.9 Chair. TC 10 (Computer Systems Technology) – B.Eschermann, Swiss rep and TC10 Chair and newly elected Councillor to the IFIP Board, report: TC 10 consists of four active working groups: 10.2 – Embedded Systems (Swiss members: Prof. Lothar Thiele, Dr. Bernhard Eschermann) , 10.3 – Concurrent Systems (Swiss member: Prof. Helmar Burkhart), 10.4 - Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance, 10.5 - Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems. TC10 established a new conference in addition to all of the conferences of its WGs in connection with WCC 2006 in Santiago de Chile. It was called BICC (biologically inspired cooperative computing). A second BICC event was scheduled in conjunction with WCC 2008 in Milan and a third event is planned for WCC 2010 in Brisbane. Depending on the success of the conference in Brisbane and the future of WCCs, TC 10 will decide whether and how to continue this conference. A discussion on new areas for TC 10 was started at its 2009 meeting. The following topics were identified as potentially interesting to pursue – they were also assigned to current working groups of TC 10 to evaluate and discuss further: Wearable computing (WG 10.2), cloud computing (WG 10.4), „green“ computing (WG 10.5). If there is interest to work on these topics among Swiss technology experts, they are invited to contact the Swiss representative to TC10. Two new SIGs of WG 10.4 were approved at the TC10 meeting in June 2009. The first is the SIG on Concepts and Ontologies, and the second is the SIG on Education in Resilient Computing. The two lead organizers, Prof. Al Avizienis and Prof. Luca Simoncini, respectively, had initial get-togethers of interested parties during the last WG 10.4 meeting. There were no changes in TC10 officers during 2009. The Swiss representative to TC 10, who also acts as TC 10 Chair, was elected to the IFIP Board as Councillor at the General Assembly 2009. The IFIP president subsequently asked him to join the Finance Committee and to head the IFIP Finance Task Force. TC 11 (Security and Protection in Information Processing Systems) - C.Rieder report:

The TC 11 Annual Meeting took place in Cyprus, May 17, 2009. Issues discussed: - Location of IFIP SEC 2011: Bids were presented by Finland, India and Switzerland and the choice was made for Switzerland. - Working 11.2: a new name was adopted: “Pervasive Systems Security”. It has to be confirmed by the next GA


- Handbook for TC-11: current state of the work on TC-11 Handbook: its content will serve as the TC-11 archive accesible from the Members only part of the TC-11 website: http://www.tc11.uni-frankfurt.de/ <http://www.tc11.uni-frankfurt.de/> TC-11 conferences - SEC 2009: Cyprus - I3E 2009 (E-commerce, E-business and E-government): Nancy, France - SEC 2010: Brisbane, Australia, part of WCC 2010 - SEC 2011: Lucerne, Switzerland, June 7 – 9, 2011 - SEC 2012: bids to be submitted Awards: TC 11 has two awards: -Kristian Beckman Award, - Best paper student award for which candidates are invited. Public Relations: issues: - how to be recognised throughout the world? - Conferences should be advertised through the national societies, - Reports should be published in professional journals. Google search produces no links for our conference. The delegates were asked to send further comments to the PR team. The new TC-11 website was prepared and launched recently: http://www.tc11.uni-frankfurt.de/ <http://www.tc11.uni-frankfurt.de/> . TC-11 Meeting 2010: Brisbane (Australia), the day before SEC2010, i.e. on Sunday, 19.09. TC-11 Meeting 2011: Lucerne (Switzerland), the day before SEC2011, i.e. on Monday, 06.06, 2011. Working Groups: status of Swiss members Only a small group of Swiss are joining TC 11. The publicity of IFIP and its benefits are not known inSwitzerland. Carlos Rieder has been asking several potential researchers to join IFIP, but he could not confess anyone (no interest, no support from business). Publicity of IFIP TC11 in Switzerland The opportunities of IFIP TC 11 must be published in Switzerland. Therefore the TC 11 annual meeting 2011 will take place in Switzerland. We are planning to use this event to advertise the advantages of IFIP in Switzerland. SEC2011 will be at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Lucerne (June 7.-9. 2011). Info / Suggestions /proposal which should be brought to GA attention The reorganisation of IFIP seems to be a major topic. We, at the base, are trying to keep up the worldwide exchange of knowledge. Also we hope IFIP is able to keep the organisation up and running. Other items Several reviews of Computer & Security Manuscript (Elsevier) have been done by members of TC11 during the last year. We hope this will reduce the existing backlog.

TC 13 (Human-computer Interaction) - Ute Klotz report: After three years work as TC 13 representative we got two new WG members. That’s a little but important step into the direction of making this interesting subject HCI more known in Switzerland. The members are Dr. Victor Zwimpfer (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts) for WG 13.6 Human Work Interaction Design and Prof. Dr. Horst Bunke (Berne University) for WG 13.7 HCI and Visualisation. Annual TC 13 meeting At our annual meeting in Uppsala, in August 2009, we released our TC13 expert profiling database on our website (based on Joomla and created at the Lucerne University). The profile of every TC 13 member concerning HCI expertise and contact information is included and searchable. At the moment it’s only accessible for TC 13 members but in the future the experts should be searchable from the official website. This is another possibility to make IFIP TC 13 more visible for the rest of the world. The next biennial TC 13 conference is Interact 2011 in Portugal with the subject “building bridges”.


Several members hold active staff positions in the IFIP TC's :

B.Eschermann is Chairman of TC 10 and newly elected Councillor to the IFIP Board . R.Morel is the Swiss delegate to the IFIP General Assembly, Board/Councillor Member since 2004 and Special Consultant to TC 3. Bertrand Meyer is TC 2 Chairman Philippe Dallemagne is TC 5 Secretary. H. Rudin is Special Consultant to TC 6 All these people deserve our sincere thanks for their invaluable personal involvement.

6. Education Committee (KB) of ICTswitzerland: Improving ICT Education & Competency in Switzerland

The Education Committee KB (Kommission Bildung) concerned with ICT education at all levels was renewed and met four times in 2009, reinforced with the participation of educational institutions members (see chapter 1 above with the creation of the « ICT-vocational Education Switzerland »). Namely 2 reports were elaboreted on :

• Positionspapier der Kommission Bildung zur Informatik an Gymnasien http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/pdf/PPGymnasien.pdf

• Positionspapier zum Lehrplan 21 http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/pdf/PPLehrplan21.pdf

7. SARIT (Swiss Association for Research in IT) - http://www.sarit.ch In 2009 SARIT continued its participation to SIC activities through his very active Board member Patrick Furrer who is also SIC member. In the normal process of Swiss IFIP TC delegates nominations, SARIT issued calls for nominations for new IFIP delegates to TC 6, TC 8 and TC 9 to be appointed in 2010. SARIT has many Working Groups in IFIP related areas which makes the cooperation of interest to both sides. In May 2009 the SARIT Board met for an internal "retreat " with the participation of Raymond Morel (SIC President), Gusti Zehnder (one of the founders of SARIT) and François Wollner (ICT Switzerland), to rethink the vision, mission, and future of SARIT in the context of the changing ICT national associations environment. In December 2009, Daniel Thalmann (President SARIT) and Patrick Furrer met the SER (State Secretariat for Education and Research) to secure the SER financial support to SARIT in 2010 and 2011. The reorganization and restructuring of the national organisations in ICT in process will have an influence on the future of SARIT which has to appoint a new President for 2011.


8. Activities ECDL in Switzerland 2009/2010

ECDL: European Computer Driving Licence

ICDL: International Computer Driving Licence (in countries outside Europe)

Worldwide Expansion of ECDL acceptance has continued in the past 12 months. To date, over 10 million students worldwide have registered in the ECDL/ICDL programme. The Swiss Informatics Society is the ECDL Licensee in Switzerland; it is proud to report the acceptance of ECDL/ICDL by many international organisations thanks in no small part to the efforts of our Swiss ECDL staff and their cooperation with the international organisations in Geneva since 2005. Organisations such as the UN, UNHCR and UNAIDS have introduced ICDL for their staff and support the implementation of the ECDL/ICDL certification programmes in many developing countries. Recent examples are the UN staff in New York and in Addis Ababa.

In Switzerland the ECDL certification programme remains as attractive as ever. This became particularly evident during the many activities and events carried out during the 2009 celebrations of 10th anniversary of ECDL in Switzerland. The Migros Club School and many other schools and test centres joined with ECDL to help promote further education in Switzerland and reduce the digital divide in Swiss society. In the past 12 months many more schools and Test Centres have joined the ECDL family.

Our Swiss ECDL Organisation continues to contribute to the growth of countries less favoured than Switzerland by assisting them in introducing ECDL/ICDL training and testing schemes. Our most recent example is the ICDL-ITC training centre in Dakar, Senegal. In previous reports we mentioned our support in establishing and managing ECDL Test Centres in Kosovo since 2005; we are very pleased to say that thanks to our efforts a Computer Society has been created in that country and acquired a licence from the ECDL Foundation. An independent ECDL organisation is now successfully running the ECDL programme from Pristina.

ECDL/ICDL has proved to be one of the most effective instruments for raising the level of digital literacy in Switzerland and all over the world.

Swiss Informatics Society

Further information: www.s-i.ch, www.ecdl.ch and www.ecdl.org.

9. The Swiss Academy of Engineering sciences (SATW) and the ICT Committee with its 3 working groups

ICTswitzerland is one of the some 60 member organisations of the SATW. The ICT Committee of the SATW was created in 2002 to promote ICT in Switzerland. Raymond Morel, its chairman and member of the SATW Scientific Board, created three working groups: e-Education, e-Inclusion and e-Society which collaborate with many partners http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/spip.php?rubrique15 http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/spip.php?article33


Different kind of events were already organised in Switzerland to bring a scientific and professional contribution towards the revised Government Strategy for the Information Society. Several delegates to IFIP TC's take part in these activities. Some examples :

https://www.satw.ch/organisation/wbr http://www.satw.ch/organisation/kommissionen/ict Several seminars in 2009 namely to follow-up after Informatica08

http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/ http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/doc/COM-ICT-Diffusion-publications-15a20-dec2009.doc

In 2009 also, the workshop 2008, « ICT and school organisation» - was published Le document complet est téléchargeable à l’adresse : http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/mun200812.pdf Le document synthétique avec les recommandations seulement est téléchargeable à l’adresse : http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/Info-No16-8p-Fr.pdf en français http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/Info-No16-8p-De.pdf auf Deutsch

Hybrides Lernen - mehr als eine Vision ! Hybrid Education – More than a Vision ! 11. und 12. November 2009, Münchenwiler

Weitere Informationen dazu finden Sie auf der Tagungswebsite


http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/spip.php?rubrique41

Workshop à Münchenwiler en mars 2009 sur le thème : Digital Inclusion : Direct Democracy and e-Participation

http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/spip.php?rubrique36 Le document complet est téléchargeable à l’adresse : http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/mun200903.pdf Le document synthétique avec les recommandations seulement est téléchargeable à l’adresse : http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/Info-No17-Fr.pdf en français http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/Info-No17-All.pdf auf Deutsch

Pré-étude pour un Living Lab « e-Inclusion » Exclusion et e-Exclusion : analyses, méthodes et outils pour maîtriser le changement et

promouvoir l’innovation sociale et technologique www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/spip.php?rubrique42

Le document complet avec ses 8 annexes est téléchargeable à l’adresse : http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/OT_SATW_Rapport-Living-Lab-eInclusion-Vfinal.pdf Le document synthétique est téléchargeable à l’adresse : http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/Info-No17-Fr.pdf en français

Une Table ronde à Münchenwiler en juin 2009 sur le thème :

Progress and Quality of Life http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/spip.php?rubrique38

Le document complet est téléchargeable à l’adresse : http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/mun200906.pdf Le document synthétique avec les recommandations seulement est téléchargeable à l’adresse : http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/Info-No18-Fr.pdf en français http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/Info-No18-All.pdf auf Deutsch in preparation

Un projet e-Babel sur le thème de la Pérennité de l’information numérique dans la société de la connaissance

Perenity of digital information http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/spip.php?rubrique39

Le site dédié à ce projet http://www.e-babel.org est très complet et mérite le détour tant pour comprendre la problématique que pour partager une solution généreuse et innovante qui devrait être soutenue plus énergiquement par bien des décideurs qui sont inconscients du baril de poudre sur lequel ils sont confortablement installés dans un environnement d’une vulnérabilité extrême avec des ressources humaines qui mériteraient une urgente priorité. Un document synthétique de la rencontre du 25 novembre 2009 est téléchargeable à l’adresse : http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/eBabelSynthese.pdf en français Une série de 6 articles sur les « environnements communicants » a été publiée dans la revue IBCOM ; ils peuvent être téléchargés à l’agresse : http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/spip.php?article104 en français Always in 2009-2010, the workshop « Gouvernance vs e-Gouvernance ? » was published Le document complet est téléchargeable à l’adresse : http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/mun200811.pdf Le document synthétique avec les recommandations seulement est téléchargeable à l’adresse : http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/Info-No15-8p-Fr.pdf en français http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/Info-No15-8p-De.pdf auf Deutsch Since January 2010 to october 2010 an interesting project is running under the title « 10 Forums on Educational Trendspotting » http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/spip.php?rubrique46

„ A Web 2.0 spirit approach in order to anticipate ICT evolution


and keep Swiss education systems competitive“ It consists in 10 Forums in two languagess (French and German) on ten hot topics dealing with the problematics behind the education in the future. The synthesis of each Forum will be presented at SFEM’2010 (Swiss Forum for Educational Media http://www.educationalmedia.ch/) during the next Worlddidac Basel end of October http://www.worlddidacbasel.com/go/id/ss/lang/eng/ The 10 hot themes in discussion are :

1. Having skills in creativity becomes increasingly important. The characteristics of a human being are not those of a machine. (Technologies vs human being)

2. The technology lead trends, but why not let their piloting human beings with their training needs? What does it mean if the technologies are out of step with education, while conducting of developments should be directed through education? (leadership : technologies vs education)

3. The changing roles of teachers: a behavior ex cathedra to a more "coach" and accompany with an emphasis on autonomy and self-learning?

4. Individualization and autonomy / self-organization of the learner

5. Googlelisation and Facebook, xing, etc.the impact of social networks on education

6. globalization of the learning (towards the hybrid education)

7. Merchandization of the Education (Opportunities and Challenges))

8. Déinstitutionalisation: the public education system will he reduced to validate qualifications and certifications? (The future of public education systems)

9. From theories on learning to systematic acquisition of knowledge

10. e-Portfolio : each learner produces and develops its own portfolio Comments :

May be these activities could be usefull for the next step in TC3 ? A very good reference (a book to read asap !


10 Link IP3-CH IFIP Activities IP3

According to the IFIP Task Force work for the project IP3 (International Professionnal Practice Programme) and the http://www.ifip.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=122 http://www.ifip.org/images/stories/ifip/public/projects/I3P/ifip%20-%20i3p%20vision.pdf IP3 vision was studied in Switzerland and we produce the following report :

http://www.ict-21.ch/SIC/IMG/pdf/IP3ch_20100215-final-version.pdf

11. Revised Government - Strategy on the Information Society Since February 1998, the Swiss Government has been conducting a massive campaign to promote the information and communication technologies (ICT) http://www.bakom.admin.ch/themen/infosociety/00695/index.html?lang=en In the text which forms the basis for the Confederation’s actions in this area, various official bodies were mandated to lead the federal administration’s ICT activities and to make the Swiss population aware of the challenges of the information era. The site http://www.bakom.admin.ch/themen/infosociety/index.html?lang=en was established which describes the federal actions in promoting ICT. As mentioned above, the ICT Committee, including several IFIP TC representatives, contribute actively to these activities.


For example, cf. Extracts from the introduction to the report Contributions of the ICT Commission of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) towards the revision of the Swiss Government Strategy for an Information Society http://www.ict-21.ch/ICT.SATW.CH/spip.php?article321 After adapting this 1998 strategy, the Federal Council announces in January 2006 its revision with two major priorities. By the end of 2006 a national strategy for each issue of e-governement and e-health was to be elaborated in cooperation with the cantons. The concept for internal government use of electronic data and documents has to be finalised by mid-2007.

e-Government Strategy http://www.bakom.admin.ch/themen/infosociety/01688/index.html?lang=en

e-Health Strategy http://www.bakom.admin.ch/themen/infosociety/01689/index.html?lang=en

These developments give the opportunity to SATW to underline its determination to collaborate and to achieve a more complete information society in Switerland (see above ICT Commission (SATW) and below e-Power initiative) http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/SATW_WBR_ICT_ECH_050921_d_f.pdf Other References :

Other activities and Initiatives The education sector The new "IT”"sector of education has existed in basic professional education since 1993: it plays a significant role in promoting young talent in information and communication technologies.

Electronic voting The electronic voting systems which have been developed are now available to all other Swiss cantons. It is up to the cantons to examine which system best meets their own needs. The Federal Council approves the use of electronic voting for federal referenda.

Management of the domain names Among other things, domain names make it possible to allocate a unique address to every website. Such names, for example www.ofcom.ch, are used very frequently today, above all for accessing websites or sending e-mails.

The legal foundations In order to face the new challenges of our information society, several laws have been revised.

Organizations / Initiatives


This webpage introduces some of the activities of organizations or initiatives related directly to the implementation work of the Federal Council's Strategy for the information society in Switzerland.

Accessibility test of public service websites The Swiss "Access for All" foundation, promoting the use of technology by the disabled, is a mediator between disabled users, who encounter technological barriers most frequently, and equipment suppliers and information providers in the public and private sectors.

Culture

Since the year 2000, the Federal Office for Culture has been dealing with the questions thrown up by technological progress in the heritage institutions and in May 2008 presented the expert report entitled "Memopolicy. A Confederation policy on Switzerland's memories".

http://www.bakom.admin.ch/themen/infosociety/01691/index.html?lang=en

The Swiss information society in figures http://www.bakom.admin.ch/themen/infosociety/01692/index.html?lang=en

Swiss portal ch.ch http://www.ch.ch/index.html?lang=en

The Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation web site

http://www.admin.ch/index.html?lang=en 12. e-Power

In order for Switzerland to place itself as the leader of ICT in the field of e-Government, e-Health, e-education and research and development, the initiative “more e-Power for Switzerland” was launched in May 2005 (cf. CH report to GA in 2006). (http://www.epower-initiative.ch)


The “ePower for Switzerland” initiative, together with top representatives of national politicians and businesses, organises regular sessions to exchange information about information society topics. On this basis, parliamentary initiatives and concrete implementation projects have been launched.The initiative is actively supported by many companies and organizations. The main activity during the reporting year was active lobbying in favour of the initiators and partner objectives for a strong ICT in Switzerland. (cf my National report in 2009)

13. Refer to my report as TC3 Special Consultant for the following subjects :

• 25-27 September 2009 in Athens : • 4th MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE�ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Conference Theme:�"Information Society Research, Education, Policy and Practice in the Mediterranean

Region - Department of Management Science & Technology

Athens University of Economics and Business http://www.mcis2009.org/

• December 2009 in Strasbourg at the EU Parliament http://www.greenconnected.eu/

• The World Digital Solidarity Agency at Lyon

http://www.dsa-asn.org/ • End of october 2009 in KRAKOW 2nd International Scientific Conference:

Changes in Education Nowadays : Digital Potential versus Cognitive Traps Key Competencies in the Knowledge Society for e-Inclusion

Cf. AGORA report http://www.ifip-tc3.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=67

• AGORA 2009 and ANDIL 2008-2009 activities http://www.ifip-tc3.net/article.php3?id_article=218 Report 2009 at the IFIP GA in Hanoi http://www.ifip-tc3.net/article.php3?id_article=219 Final ANDIL Report

• December 2009 in Poitiers

Executive TC3 meeting : • January-February 2010

Preparation activities and meeting in Geneva at ITU for the WSIS FORUM in May 2010 (10th to 14th) as usual in Geneva

==> ITU, UNESCO, PNUD, GAID, UN CSTD, DRAFT DOCUMENT and web site : http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/2010/forum/geneva/

• February 2010 in Dubai

The 3rd Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Meadle East 2010


• 4-6 March 2010

Board of IFIP at Sofia http://www.ifip.org/images/stories/ifip/public/publications/minutes/Board2010/board%202010%20minutes.pdf Minutes

• 16th of April 2010 in Vienna :

Annual meeting of the Associated Partners of the MATURE project

More’information on the MATURE project at the start : http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/jpg/Mature-Image-191.jpg


MATURE_Project_Poster Continuous Social Learning in Knowledge Networks http://www.ict-

21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/1-2008-04-28_MATURE_Project_Poster.pdf Flyer http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/2-2008-10-Flyer.pdf Flyer-MATURE-IAG http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/pdf/3-2008-10-Flyer-MATURE-IAG.pdf

now http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/IMG/jpg/Mature-after-twoyears-Image-246.jpg more info http://www.mature-ip.eu • ITU-UNESCO-UNCTAD facilitators for WSIS (World Summit of Information Society)

5th WSIS Forum (10-14 May 2010) in Geneva From the WSIS Forum 2010 (link behind each line): WSIS Forum 2010 Programme Towards Inclusive Knowledge Societies - A review of UNESCO’s action in

implementing the WSIS outcomes 1. Forum 2010 du SMSI : mise en œuvre des objectifs à l’horizon 2015 2. National e-Strategies for Development Global Status and Perspectives 2010 3. The 2010 National e- Strategies Development Global Status and Perspectives Report 4. Measuring the Information Society ITU (2010) 5. Measuring the Information Society 2010 Executive Summary ITU (2010) 6. Mesurer la société de l’information 2010 Résumé ITU (2010) 7. Publication releases page 8. WSIS Stocktaking is a public ly-accessible database of ICT-related implementation

activities 9. UNESCO et SMSI Vers les sociétés du savoir 10. Société de l’Information et gouvernance de l’Internet 11. EDPS opinion on privacy in the digital age: "Privacy by Design" as a key tool to ensure

citizens’ trust in ICTs 12. Opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor on Promoting Trust in the

Information Society by Fostering Data Protection and Privacy 13. Towards Knowledge Societies Unesco (2005) 14. WSIS Action Line Facil itators Meeting http://www.ict-21.ch/com-ict/spip.php?article28

WSIS Forum 2010 was held from 10th to 14th of May 2010 at the ITU Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland. We are happy to inform you that, one month since the successful organization of the WSIS Forum 2010, the WSIS Forum 2010 Final Executive Briefing Draft (version 1.1) is available at the following link: http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/2010/forum/geneva/report/index.html <http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/2010/forum/geneva/report/index.html> . The final executive briefing provides an overview of the outcomes of the WSIS Forum 2010, including reports of the diverse forms of interaction during the forum. The Executive briefing is a collaborative effort and we would like to thank the host ITU and co organizers of WSIS Forum 2010 i.e. ITU, UNESCO, UNCTAD and UNDP, Action Line Focal Points and the organizers of each session and thematic workshop for the prompt submission of the session reports.


The WSIS Forum 2010 offered participants a series of diverse interactions, including opening ceremony, high level plenary session, five high-level debates addressing critical issues to the WSIS implementation and follow-up in multi-stakeholder set-ups, fifteen WSIS Action Line facilitation meetings, six interactive sessions, twenty thematic workshops, six kick-off meetings for new initiatives and projects, six knowledge exchanges facilitating networking among the participants, and others. The WSIS Forum 2010 provided structured opportunities to network, learn and to participate in multi-stakeholder discussions and consultations on WSIS implementation. This year, an Exhibition space was made available for stakeholders to exhibit and display their efforts towards WSIS implementation. Twenty One exhibition stalls were set up in total. Facilities were made available to ensure inclusiveness and participation during the WSIS Forum 2010. Several sessions were conducted in debate style to encourage participation from the participants. Translation was offered in 6 languages for various sessions. Sessions were webcast and diverse ways of social networking were used to reach the last mile. Paris 10-11 of June 2010

15e colloque CREIS-TERMINAL Information Technology against Civil Liberties – Suveillance and Social Control http://www.lecreis.org/colloques%20creis/2010/programme%20colloque%20CREIS-terminal.pdf

• Always 2 links with important EU projects : The MATURE Project http://www.mature-ip.eu/ http://www.ifip-tc3.net/IMG/ppt/6JMmature_agora_final.ppt

The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/ http://www.ifip-tc3.net/IMG/pdf/eJOV10_SPILL8_Mulder_Velthausz_Kriens_Harmonization%20Cube.pdf

14. AOB

Various articles in CH newspapers

Strong contribution to the National Task Force activities for « ICT and Education » --> spreading IFIP's ideas for integration after the last WC’s. Since November 2005 the Board was upgraded to a permanent National and Legal Board (SKIB) for ICT in the whole domain of Education with all the partners (Federal Office for Telecom – OFCOM/BAKOM, the State Secretary for Sciences and Research – SER, the National Office for Professional Technology – OFFT/BBT, the Federal Office of Statistics – OFS/BFS, the teachers trade unions, the head of the National Educational Network and ICTswitzerland. The chairman of SKIB is the General Secretary of the 26 Ministers of Education SKIB = (Schweizerischen Koordinationskonferenz ICT und Bildung)

Hundreds of messages with e-mail

Active participation for diffusion of all informations for forthcoming IFIP events (usual tasks :

call for papers, preliminary program, reviewing, organisation of the national contribution, then post-conference feed-back)

Meetings with the SI Committee (Swiss Informatics Society) and KB (special interest group for

Kommission ICT Bildung) and meetings with the ICTswitzerland Committee – elaboration of a code of ethics. SI is the leader for ECDL

Report (meeting in Bern) at the Swiss Committee for IFIP December 2009 and Networking Party

organised by ICTswitzerland in January 2010 (more than 800 participants of all domains (industries, education, business, decision-makers, politicians, etc.)

Raymond Morel

Swiss GA Representative and Councillor @ IFIP Board

Geneva, August 2010 in collaboration with P.-A. Bobillier

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