IFIP and IFIP WG 5.15
IFIP:
- is the leading multinational, a political organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Sciences
- is recognized by United Nations and other world bodies
- has a formal consultative partnership relation with UNESCO
- represents IT Societies from 56 countries or regions, covering all 5 continents with a total membership of over half a million
- links more than 3500 scientists from Academia and Industry, organized in more than 101 Working Groups reporting to 13 Technical Committees
- sponsors 100 conferences yearly providing unparalleled coverage from theoretical informatics to the relationship between informatics and society including hardware and software technologies, and networked information systems
Within IFIP:
- IT societies’ members find a meeting place for sharing experience, and discussing challenges and opportunities
- TCs and WGs contribute to, and often lead, progress in the state-of-the art knowledge and practice
IFIP scientific and technological leadership:
- is warranted by WG membership, based solely on individual excellence
- is asserted by the organization of some 100 highest quality international events, and the publication of some 30 new books annually that are distributed worldwide
Formally IFIP is a non-governmental, non-profit umbrella organization for national societies working in the field of information processing. It was established in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO as a result of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959.
IFIP is incorporated in Austria by decree of the Austrian Foreign Ministry (20th September 1996, GZ 1055.170/120-I.2/96) granting IFIP the legal status of a non-governmental international organisation under the Austrian Law on the Granting of Privileges to Non-Governmental International Organisations (Federal Law Gazette 1992/174).
IFIP WG5.15 on IT in Disaster Risk Reduction General
The International Federation for Information Procesing (IFIP) has established its Working Group WG5.15 on Imformation Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction to:
- promote disaster risk reduction (DRR) within the IT community;
- provide an additional opportunity for IFIP members to work with external specialized bodies such as UN, UNISDR, ICSU, ITU and ISCRAM;
- coordinate the efforts of member societies as well as different Technical Committees and Working Groups of IFIP in its specific disaster-related field.
Overall Goal
- Promote a new research and practice domain on IT aspects of DRR and let IFIP take the leadership in this domain;
- Provide an international platform for communication and collaboration on IT in DRR projects, research and applications.
Previous ITDRR Conferences
ITDRR-2016
November 16-18, 2016
University of National and World Economy Sofia, Bulgaria
ITDRR-2017
October 25-27, 2017
University of National and World Economy Sofia, Bulgaria
ITDRR-2018
September 20-21, 2018
Poznan University of Technology Poznan, Poland
ITDRR-2019
October 9-10, 2019
Kyiv National University of Culture & Arts Kyiv, Ukraine
ITDRR-2020
December 3-4, 2020
University of National and World Economy Sofia, Bulgaria
ITDRR-2021
October 25-27, 2021
Morioka, Iwate, Japan
ITDRR-2022
October 12-14, 2022
University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway