06 TEMMUZ 2008 PAZAR

Informatics Associations of Turkey (IAT) has been established in 1971 and currently have reached to five thousand members. IAT which is the oldest ICT association, is also the only institution in Turkey, which intends to embrace all information systems professionals as well as those other professionals who benefit from and associate themselves with information systems in any manner when performing their respective professions.

The Goal and the Objectives

Organisation

IAT Centre and regional Branches shall be constituted of the following organs:

General Assembly: IAT centre or the regional Branches are governed by the respective General Assembly which consists of all members of IAT or the regional Branch. The General Assembly decides on all-important matters, such as general policy, the program of activities, admissions, elections and budget.

Governing Board: Members of the central and regional governing boards, elected by the relevant General Assembly, are responsible for carrying out daily activities.

Board of Auditors examine all financial, fiscal and legal actions together with related documents and accounts and reports to the relevant General Assembly.

Honour Board whose members are elected by the general assembly from among those members who have distinguished themselves with extensive efforts and services to the ideals of IAT or IS community has the authority to examine and decide on complaints concerning a member with regard to the code of conduct.

Standing or ad hoc Committees and Work Groups are formed by the Governing Board, usually following the instructions or recommendations of the General Assembly or complying with the suggestions made by the members. They are responsible for investigation, reporting, formulation and recommendation of policy, implementation and advisory functions with regard to general areas or specific functions or concerns. At present some 10 committees and work groups are operational.

Members

Regular Membership is open to

• IS staff and workers
• those engaged in research, teaching, writing or publishing in IS arena
• those who are responsible for extensive and effective use of IS in their organisations.

Taking into consideration the extension use of informatics in business, we have started to enroll professionals in other diciplines who are accomplished users of IS. There is also a strong tendency among some members to amend the statute in order to open the doors to those who benefit from IS in personal capacity

A group of IAT members at Atatürk's Mausoleum

Honorary Membership status is conferred by the IAT Governing Board to those distinguished persons who have rendered invaluable services, in the country or abroad, for advancement, promulgation and dissemination of ideas and applications in parallel with the goal and objectives of IAT.

Students in computer science or related areas are eligible to be registered as Aspirant members.

Goal and Objectives

The principal goal of IAT is to support the progress of theory and practice of computer science and related sciences and technologies in Turkey and to promote widespread utilisation of information systems in the country in order to reach to the ideals of information society.

To achieve this goal we

Try to facilitate dissemination of knowledge on IS and related subjects,

Facilitate determining, developing and maintaining the integrity and competence of individuals active in IS fields,

Endeavour to establish a public awareness of the potential impact of information systems on economic, social and cultural fields,

Explore solutions to cope with possible adverse effects,

Assist to determine strategies for integration with the World,

Encourage development of IS standards, terminology, legal provisions consistent with national requirements and conditions,

Support advancement of the level and standards of IS education and professional training,

Essay for better coordination and fair competition in IS sector,

Study and formulate IS policies for betterment of social and economic conditions, in order to submit to the relevant authorities and publish for the benefit of general public.

Functions and Activities

IAT performs such functions and engages in such activities as may be necessary or incidental to the achievement of the general objectives of the Society noted above. These include:

Establishing standing or ad hoc Committees or work groups which shall be responsible for investigation, reporting, formulation and recommendation of policy, implementation and advisory functions with regard to general areas or specific functions or concerns as designated by its Statute, or by the General Assembly and/or the Governing Board. At present work groups on IT Standards, Management of IT Projects, IS Terminology, Urban Development Information Systems and two so-called "IT Managers Clubs", one in Istanbul and the other one in Ankara, are active.

Organizing or sponsoring periodic or non-recurrent conferences, symposiums, seminars.

This year on 15-19 December 16th IAT' Annual IS Congress will be held in Istanbul which, we hope, will gather some three thousand participants. Another annual activity is IT Managers Conference, the 6th of which took place in Antalya in past April with 250 participants. "Conference On Education Enlightened with IT" is a two year old annual activity of IAT, which we think will to become also a regular annual activity.

Publishing papers and journals,

TIS publishes an IT Culture Journal to be distributed free to its members as well as to all interested public and private circles. This publication started as a biannual periodical, later it became a monthly, and was published for 7 years as monthly periodical in cooperation with an IT publishing firm. At present preparations are going on to recommence publishing this periodical as a quarterly journal. On the other hand IAT made special arrangements with a private publisher to distribute to its members an IT weekly periodical published by them

Cooperating with other governmental or non governmental organizations to carry out activities.

Contributing to many a governmental or non-governmental activities. IAT' contributions in such activities includes, among others, memberships at Parliamentary Committee on IT Policy, Supreme Board of Internet, IT Sector Advisory Board at the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey.  

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