International Federation for Information Processing
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 href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=ITU-T">ITU-T. href="http://www.dit.upm.es/~cdk/ifip.html">. (1995-03-10)