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ICCP and CIPS Des Plaines, IL, USA- The Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals' (ICCP) Board of Directors and the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) approved a mutual recognition agreement at its meeting on August 10, 1996. The aim of the agreement is to promote IT professionalism practices, advance integrity, honor, dignity and ethics, to harmonize standards internationally, to encourage the exchange of ideas, and to support the mobility of IT professionals to the mutual benefit of ICCP, CIPS, their members and the population of both the United States and Canada. According to Rich Pawlicki, CCP, and ICCP Vice President, "This agreement was long in the making, but the time was well spent. The process we went through speaks to the positive relationship that exists between CIPS and the ICCP." The ICCP and it's constituent societies (ACM, AITP, AWC, DAMA, ICCA, ISTE) and CIPS are committed to support the free movement of professionals between the United States and Canada, qualification-based selection for the procurement of IT services and the elimination of residency requirements for employment competition within their jurisdictions. The ICCP works closely with the U.S. Immigration department to assess professional standing in IT of potential immigrants to the U.S.A. CIPS is Canada's largest, and longest standing, association of information technology professionals. Through initiatives at the national and international levels, CIPS strives to strengthen the Canadian IT profession, and to support Canadian IT practitioners. CIPS actively represents the professional concerns of Canadian IT practitioners to all levels of industry and government. Founded in 1958 as a result of the First Canadian Conference on Computing and Data Processing, and formerly called the Computing Society of Canada, CIPS now represents over 6,000 members in 25 sections across the country. This agreement will complement one of CIPS' most important initiatives in the are of IT professionalism; the Information Systems Professional of Canada (I.S.P.) professional designation. The I.S.P., introduced in 1989, requires demonstrated professional knowledge and a substantial body of professional-level work experience. Qualifying for I.S.P. certification highlights the recipient's professional standards of competency and ethical behavior in the planning, analysis, design, implementation, and procurement of information systems. |
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