A: The KIPS has settled as a de facto leading academic society in the nation during a short period of 14 years. Such an accomplishment of the organization could be possible due to its members' positive interest and participation, as well as the efforts of former leaders and executives. However, it is time for the KIPS which has achieved the exterior growth to advance one stage further by making substantial development. For this end, the KIPS will push ahead the following academic projects this year.
First, I will make efforts to make the KIPS into an open society which people will want to join together. I will actively take part in the domestic and international academic events and will do my best to develop the KIPS to join the rank of internationally prominent societies.
Second, for this goal, I will try to register international conferences hosted by the KIPS including the APIS, ICUT and ALPIT to the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). I will also make utmost efforts to register the English paper being published by the KIPS to SCI as soon as possible.
Third, I am going to prepare various plans to activate diverse research groups and regional academic groups affiliated with the KIPS. I will provide opportunities for the members to actively participate in the management of the organization and am considering a variety of plans for the development of the KIPS by introducing electric administrative system for an efficient management of the open society.
Fourth, the KIPS is going to improve rules and regulations for all affairs of society to be achieved through a democratic, reasonable and transparent procedure.
Fifth, through actively taking part in the government policies regarding the IT sector, the KIPS will maintain amicable relationships with concerned government organizations and launch the promotion campaign of the society.
Q: Please state your opinion of the development of the KIPS in quality and quantity.
A: The KIPS has achieved a significant development for the past decade. The KIPS, in particular, held for international conferences and published four journals including an independent English journal which can never be found in other academic societies. Besides, the KIPS has members over 10,000.
In addition, the KIPS has been actively involving diverse projects including silver-net campaign for computer education of the underprivileged, campaign to send IT books to North Korea, IT certification project for universities and other projects to establish Internet ethics. All these projects are aimed at enhancing recognition and status of the KIPS domestically and internationally. The KIPS is expected to develop into the largest academic society in the nation by owning over 20,000 members within five years and by constructing a new building.
Q: How do you assess contribution of the KIPS for development of the domestic IT industry.
A: The KIPS holds the IT 21 International Conference in June every year. The KIPS has held 10 conferences and in the process, the conferences have shed light on the Mega Trend of the 21st century IT technologies for the domestic companies and have made a significant contribution to the development of the domestic IT industry by gathering views of the industries, research world, academic world and political world to secure a competitive edge of IT technologies and industries for the nation in the ubiquitous age.
IT-related papers published on the society journals and announced through the three international conferences are about state-of-the-art technologies developed by universities and research institutes. The KIPS has imposed huge impact on the domestic IT development by establishing a system of joint researches between the industries and universities linking the technologies with the industries and owning many of the IT technologies jointly developed by the industries and universities.
The KIPS, apart from making efforts for the industrial and academic development, has had continuous interests in examining side-effects generated due to development of information and communication such as the Internet and in preparing solutions. The Internet Ethics Promotion Headquarters affiliated with the KIPS, in particular, has been hosting Internet Ethics Workshop twice every year, as well as opening 10 forums of related experts and publishing teaching materials used for the Internet ethics lectures in the universities.
In addition, the KIPS has been playing a role in promoting the nation and spreading advanced domestic IT technologies through domestic and overseas promotional and educational projects. For this goal, the IT Education & Promotion Business Headquarters of the KIPS has been opening workshops for technical education regarding information and communication in the nation and using the proceeds for overseas promotional projects, while the Korea IT Peace Corps has been steadily displaying voluntary activities to provide computer education free of charge for Korean residents in foreign countries during vacations.
Q: Tell me about IT conferences and exhibitions being planned by the KIPS this year.
A: The KIPS is going to hold five conferences - two domestic ones in the spring and fall and three international ones, APIS, ICUT and ALPIT - this year. The organization also plans three projects, such as irregular short-term ITrelated lectures, IT 21 Conference and the 11th Software Quality Management Symposium (SQMS) 2007. The APIS will be held in Malaysia on Jan. 20~21, the UIT international conference in the United Arab Emirates on February 12 - 13, and ALPIT in China on July 23 - 25.
Q: Would you tell me about details of plans to expand IT exchanges with overseas academic societies
A: As mentioned above, for a goal of jointly opening the international conferences -- APIS, ICUT and ALPIT -- with prominent academic societies abroad, the KIPS is going to strengthen relations with its foreign counterparts through signing agreements with them and to maximize the status of the events by mutually inviting heads of those organizations.
For this, the KIPS will strengthen relations with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the United States and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in Japan through signing treaties for mutual cooperation, as well as preparing ways to display promotion and exchange activities by inviting heads of those institutes to the international conferences.
The KIPS plans to distribute English journals to the worldwide academic societies in connection information and communication, as well as increasing the IT exchange after inviting foreign prominent scholars as editorial staff.
Q: Do you have some plans to strengthen services for members
A: We are going to provide quality services to the members after establishing the KIPS academic information system during the first half of 2007 through building up the Academic Content Management System (ACOMS) for membership management, judgment and management of essays and financial management.
The KIPS so far hasn't offered satisfactory services to the members due to a financial problem. However, the organization will try to provide quality services with a new system of collecting membership fees.
The KIPS will make efforts to continuously provide information needed by the members through steadily improving its Internet site and will step up informatization-related services by sending newsletters through e-mails every week.
In addition, to open the society to the members, the KIPS will step up education for the staff of the executive office. The KIPS, in particular, will perform transparent and substantial management so that it can offer services through which the members can join the society at ease and make activities.
