Partnering for Success: Creativity And Professionalism In Delivering Trustworthy ICT WSIS Forum – 25 May

Partnering for Success: Creativity and Professionalism In Delivering Trustworthy ICT Agenda The evolving dependence on ICTs in the Second Machine Age and Journey in Professionalism - Stephen Ibaraki, IFIP IP3 Vice-President Managing the risks of ICT the global profession. The undesired consequences of leaving ICT to just anybody; the role of governments in building the knowledge economy - Brenda Aynsley, IFIP IP3 Chair IFIP IP3 developing global partnerships to deliver the gold standard of professionalism - Moira de Roche, IFIP IP3 Deputy Chair

Partnering for Success: Creativity And Professionalism In Delivering Trustworthy ICT WSIS Forum – 25 May 2015 Brenda Aynsley – IFIP IP3 Chair 3 Session 2 - Managing the risks of ICT the global profession. The undesired consequences of leaving ICT to just anybody; the role of governments in building the knowledge economy.

Partnering for Success: Creativity And Professionalism In Delivering Trustworthy ICT WSIS Forum – 25 May 2015 Moira de Roche – Vice-Chair IFIP IP3 4 Session 3 - IFIP IP3 developing global partnerships to deliver the gold standard of professionalism

Government as Manager  To the economy  Security in the age of the Internet of Things  Attacks by other parties  Technology used for evil & good  Weaknesses in critical underlying systems – catastrophe  Capacity building and skills shortages  Privacy invasive practices Identifying the risks of ICTs

Government as Manager  Failure inherent in ICT enabled projects  10 projects exceed time and budget  Reasons  Leadership, accountability & governance  Planning  Funding  Probity & procurement  Project Managemen t Identifying the risks of ICTs Victorian State Ombudsman, G E Brouwer said: “Until government has developed a proven ability to adequately identify high-risk projects and deliver these on time and on budget, in my view a monetary threshold of $20 million and associated increased scrutiny is a necessary early discipline,...”

Government as Employer  Role model in ICT professional development  Developing graduates and other staff  Adopting a skills framework e.g. SFIA  Management development programmes

Government as Purchaser  Influencing the standards of practice of providers of ICT goods and services  Biggest spender  Demand high level of professional service in contracts

Government as Service Provider ICT underscores the delivery of services provided by Governments today  Cost of traditional vs e-government services  Education Service provider  Prepares citizens for economic activity  Provide research support  Provide infrastructure support

Government as Legislator Determining and requiring the appropriate outcomes for the advancement of its economy Examples:  Australia – Professional Standards Legislation  USA - IT Skills draft Bill 40/52  Europe – E-skills  International - ISO/IEC 24773

Support “I think with the degree of software that we’re surrounded by everywhere, that at some point we may be called to task for failing to do something that protects people’s interests and there may be liability, and as soon as that happens I think that some point of accreditation will be inescapable. “ – Vinton Cerf, Co-founder of the Internet Houlin Zhao, Secretary General of ITU said in a recent interview that we must look at the issue of professionalism and work with our members [of ITU] to increase those skills and proficiencies because in order to reach the maturity of our technologies and also reach the maturity status of our market we really need our experts, engineers and teaching meccas to show their maximum proficiency and professional skills.

Session 3 - IFIP IP3 developing global partnerships to deliver the gold standard of professionalism Agenda

What is the Gold Standard? CBoK Specialism 1 Specialism 2 Specialism 3  IP3 Professional (IP3P)  Aspirational  Vendor neutral  SFIA Level 5 (Benchmark)  CBoK  Complete requirement for professional formationprofessional formation  Global recognition  IP3 Technologist (IP3T)  SFIA Level 3

Professional formation

Why do we need a “Gold Standard”  Quality Assurance  Accountability  Trust  A world that work  Equivalency

The Partnership Concept  IFIP IP3  Maintains the standard  Accredits organisations against the standard  Partnership  All members & stakeholders work together to ensure: Relevance globally Currency Different views are accommodated

Global Partnerships in place  IFIP Community  The leading multinational, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Sciences  Recognized by United Nations and other world bodies  Represents IT Societies from 56 countries/regions, covering five continents with a total membership of over half a million  Links more than 3500 scientists from Academia & Industry  Over 100 Working Groups and 13 Technical Committees

Global Partnerships in place  IP3 Members  Accredited – ACS, CIPS  Working towards accreditation  Computer Society of Sri Lanka  Computer Society Zimbabwe (CSZ)  Information Technology Institute (ITI)  Information Processing Society of Japan IPSJ)  Institute of IT Professionals New Zealand (IITP)  Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa  ISACA  Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE)  National society for ICT Professionals (NGI/VRI) Netherlands gn.nl/default.htmlhttps:// gn.nl/default.html  Swiss Informatics Society SI

Global Partnerships in place  Other bodies  FEAPO – Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Association Worldwide association of professional organizations providing a forum to standardize, professionalize, & advance the discipline of Enterprise Architecture (EA)  GITCA Representing over 1100 member organizations and over 5.3 million IT professionals globally. Committed to the free exchange of resources, ultimately elevating the status of the IT Professional  ISACA An independent global association which engages in the development, adoption and use of globally accepted, industry-leading knowledge and practices for information systems with focus on security and governance  Seoul Accord An international accreditation agreement for professional computing and information technology academic degrees between the bodies responsible for accreditation in its signatory countries

Global Partnerships in development  Regional bodies  EU E-skills project  Government  Plans for government forum  Global Bodies  ITU Assist with training and development Develop WSIS Action Lines  Global technology companies  Collaboration Platform Support - Cisco and Microsoft  Global Industry Council (GIC)  28 Directors  Global representation  Senior representatives Technology businesses Academia Global non-profits