Austrian Computer Society
| Austrian Computer Society (OCG) |
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|---|---|
| purpose | Promotion of information technology, taking into account its effects on people and society |
| Chair: | Wilfried Seyruck (President), Ronald Bieber (General Secretary) |
| Establishment date: | 1975 |
| Number of members: | more than 1,400 (as of 12/2017) |
| Number of employees: | approx. 20 |
| Seat : | Vienna 1 , Wollzeile 1 |
| Website: | www.ocg.at |
The Austrian Computer Society (OCG) is a non-profit association for the promotion of information technology , taking into account its effects on people and society.
History and activities
The association was founded in 1975 with the assistance of Heinz Zemanek , and has members from the fields of science, IT applications, teaching and training, as well as companies in the IT sector, and a large number of individuals.
The main purpose is to promote and pool knowledge and experience in the field of information and communication technology . The driving force behind this knowledge transfer are around 25 working groups that deal with topics relating to e-government , e-business , e-learning and e-health .
Certificates
Since the introduction of the European Computer Driving License (ECDL) in 1997, the Austrian Computer Society has also supported the ECDL initiative in Austria. In addition, other internationally recognized certifications are offered, such as the two-stage OCG Typing Certificate for typing skills , the modular certification program OCG Web Management (formerly OCG WebPublisher ) for the areas of web design , multimedia and programming . The OCG has also been a certification body for ISO / IEC 27001 since 2013.
Working groups
The important working groups include:
- Accessibility through ICT
- Forum e | Government
- ICT training for teachers
Membership in associations
- IFIP - International Federation for Information Processing (world umbrella organization)
- CEPIS - Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (European umbrella organization)
- ECDL Foundation (carrier organization of the European Computer Driving License - ECDL)
- i-12 (Strategy Group Computer Science), to which more than 10 German-speaking computer science associations belong
- IT-Star (Association of the non-German speaking neighboring countries of Austria)
Cooperations
- ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
- IEEE Computer Society
- Computer societies of the Central and Eastern European neighboring countries