Call for Nominations for the CIPS Fellowship Award |
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The CIPS Fellowship Electoral Committee is seeking nominations from CIPS member societies and members.
Being awarded the CIPS Fellow status is earned recognition of significant development or outstanding contribution to the advancement of the profession, computer technology, the ICT sector or the adoption of ICT. Contributions can be made at a local, provincial, national or international level. Contributions can be made within or for the profession, business or government or industry. They can be made through research, systems development, education, authorship, public policy or advocacy. CIPS Fellowship Awards are open to members of CIPS member societies.
Applications are being received until March 1st
The Fellow is the highest class of membership offered by CIPS. Fellow Members have agreed to uphold the highest standards of ethics and professional conduct. They will also help to promote CIPS and the association’s initiatives within their sphere of influence.
Fellow Members use the designation, FCIPS, after their name.
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CIPS Alberta Networking Socials 2024
(Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Red Deer)
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Meet CIPS Members in Alberta and reunite with old friends!
Join CIPS Alberta on February 8th in either Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, or Red Deer for our “CIPS Alberta Networking Social 2024“!
The event will begin with a brief presentation at the Edmonton location, which will be streamed to the Calgary, Lethbridge, and Red Deer locations. This presentation will provide a brief introduction to the CIPS skills assessment tool member benefit and the upcoming launch of CIPS Alberta’s new mentorship program for immigrants. Following the presentation the networking and social events will commence in all locations.
Time: 5:30 pm MST to 7:30 pm MST
REGISTER:
Calgary (Coming Soon)
Limited spots, register soon!
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ERA’s 2024 Scholarship for $1 Million & $100K Dollars |
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The Electronic Recycling Association (ERA) is excited to announce the return of two scholarship opportunities! The competition runs from January 1st, 2024 to September 1st, 2024 giving you plenty of time to see how many donated devices you can collect.
- $1 Million Dollar scholarship – Collect 1 million laptops and smartphones (suitable for donation) Canada-wide, and win.
- $100K Dollar scholarship for 100K approved devices
People can ship their items at no charge to ERA, using ERA’s shipping labels, get the items picked up for free from their homes by FedEx, UPS, Canada Post, or direct from an ERA truck if in the appropriate location. Non-approved items will be accepted, but only with a small fee. Items collected that pay the fees will also be counted towards the scholarship count totals.
Accepted Items for both Scholarships:
- laptops
- tablets
- smartphones
- desktop computers
- retro gaming consoles and computers, handheld gaming devices
- corporate computer equipment
- servers, switches, business routers
- scientific equipment
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Alberta ICT Mentorship Program – Marketing Coordinator |
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CIPS Alberta with funding from the Alberta Immigrant Mentorship Innovation Grant, is embarking on a three-year project to develop and execute a unique mentorship program for immigrants arriving in the province.
To support the program’s marketing and communications needs for awareness and engagement, CIPS Alberta is seeking a qualified Marketing Coordinator. CIPS Alberta is the professional regulator in Alberta for IT practitioners and serves IT professionals and the public in Alberta as a non-profit entity.
Required qualifications: Post-secondary education in business administration, marketing, communications, or a related field and 1-3 years of experience in marketing.
Interested candidates can submit their qualifications to sabina@cips.ca by January 31, 2024. Preference will be given to local Alberta candidates.
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CIPS Director of Accreditation presents at the ASIIN European Informatics Conference |
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ASIIN (The Accreditation Agency for Study Programmes in Engineering, Informatics, Natural Sciences and Mathematics) hosted the European Informatics Conference 2023 December 14 and 15, 2023 in Valencia, Spain. The focus of the conference was “The future of European Informatics Education – How to counter the skills shortage without compromising on quality?”. Over the conference’s two-day several presentations were delivered by key European players.
Gerald Caissy, ITCP, I.S.P. (ret.) presented a talk on “What’s going on outside Europe: – The Seoul Accord as a non-European counterpart”. Caissy is the current Deputy-Chair of the Seoul Accord, and CIPS Director of Accreditation. His talk was titled “Recognition and Accreditation Outside Europe”.
During Caissy’s talk he briefly covered the original eight accord signatories of the Seoul Accord, to todays 18 signatory membership; he then talked on the core element of the Seoul Accord criteria which is the Graduate Attributes, followed with a briefly overview of SFIA as an alternative accreditation standard for none academic organizations, and concluded with an update on the most recent Seoul Accord initiatives, such as the Seoul Accord recognition of Technologist level credential. Currently only Baccalaureate level credentials are recognized by Seoul Accord Signatories, but Technologist (typically 2 year diploma) level credential recognition by all signatories is a project Caissy has been working on with CONAIC Mexico’s Computer Professional Society.
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- Darwin Perrier I.S.P., ITCP (Alberta)
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CIPS Community Forum - Featured Discussions |
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2024 AI for Good Global Summit (Geneva, May 30-31) |
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The annual AI for Good Global Summit, the leading UN platform for dialogue on AI, will be held in Geneva from 30-31 May 2024.
Organized by ITU and co-convened with the Government of Switzerland, the summit will explore AI’s potential to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals.
Register here to play your part in helping to shape the future of AI together!
CIPS Certified Members - Attend and Earn Re-Certification Credits!
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The following organizations support CIPS' commitment to professionalism, ethics, and high standards for the IT profession and industry. CIPS thanks all its partners for their contribution.
Become a CIPS Partner Today! - Send an email to info@cips.ca.
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