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Information processing federation appoints Monash academic

21 September 2005

Faculty of IT lecturer Mr Chris Avram has been elected a trustee of the International Federation for Information Processing.

He was elected to a four-year term at the federation's general meeting in Gaborone, Botswana, this month.

Mr Avram (pictured), who is vice-president of the Australian Computer Society and is the Australian representative to the federation, is one of eight trustees elected to the council.

The trustees, along with the president, vice president, treasurer and secretary, make up the federation's key decision-making body.

Mr Avram said Australian information and communications technology researchers, educators and professionals played an active role in the federation and were highly respected on the world stage.

"Australians are prominent within the federation in areas as diverse as computer science, education, artificial intelligence and information security," he said.

"We are well represented on working groups, in executive positions and on technical committees so Australia is very much valued for the contributions of its academic community.

"Our involvement in turn is one means to achieving the principles of the Australian Computer Society, to promote the development of Australian information and communications technology resources."

The federation represents more than 400,000 information and communications technology professionals from 60 countries through member associations including the Australian Computer Society.