ITPE webinar on IT professional ethics to be held 15 February
The next ITPE webinar ‘Responsibility in tech – ethical challenges for IT professionals’ will take place on 15 February at 10:00 CET. We will discuss the responsibility of IT professionals when developing new technologies that may have legal/ethical implications related to e.g., data usage or biased algorithms.
Commission releases Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2022
The European Commission has published the Erasmus+ Programme Guide for 2022.
President of ATIC receives award of excellence
Prof. Vasile Baltac, President of the Romanian Informatics and Communications Association (ATIC), received the Excellence Award for his lifetime achievements at the ceremony of GALA Digital Transformation (DX) by Digital Transformation Council on 10 December 2021 at Bucharest, Romania.
EU Parliament votes in favour of Digital Markets Act
Last month, the European Parliament voted for the Digital Markets Act, which enables the European Commission to carry out market investigations and sanction non-compliant behaviours in large tech companies.
Every global region facing skills gap, new report finds
Every global region is facing a skills gap, a new report from online learning platform, Coursera, has found. Critical skills needed by companies include cloud computing, cybersecurity, data analysis and software development.
France takes over the Presidency of the EU Council
France has taken over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, and has released its list of priorities for the next six months. The programme is in line with the broader programme of the trio of presidencies developed with the upcoming Czech and Swedish presidencies.
Breaking down the barriers for women working in tech in Europe
CEPIS recently hosted an event to tackle the lack of women in tech in Europe, titled: “Gender equality in the IT workplace: breaking down the barriers”. he focus was on the challenges and opportunities related to breaking down barriers in gender gap in ICT professions.
CEPIS warns against new regulation to oblige monitoring of encrypted content
The CEPIS Legal and Security Issues expert group has prepared a statement opposing the European Commission’s planned new regulation to oblige the communication services providers to monitor all content, even if it is encrypted.
NJSzT annual conference in 2021 themed around “Deep IT”
The Hungarian John von Neumann Computer Society (NJSzT) has successfully organised their yearly conference in 2021 November. This year’s event was entitled „Deep IT”, as it was focusing on certain technologies which deeply affect our everyday life.
IFIP, ITPE and CEN TC 428 host joint-event on IT professionalism
On 9 November, ITPE, IFIP-IP3 and CEN TC 428 celebrated the 60th anniversary of IFIP with an online conference on IT Professionalism, entitled ‘Never waste a good crisis: develop a trustworthy digital ecosystem’.
