International Federation for Information Processing definition
<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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