Abstract
In 1994 the Technical Assembly of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) created a task force on Harmonisation and Acceptance of International Standards for IT Professionals, as it was believed that there was a need for rationalisation in this area. Also, the Word Trade Organisation was promoting the view that in an era of international treaties which promoted free trade and the free movement of workers from one country to another, the establishment of standards for the qualifications of professionals was very important. In 1997 the IFIP Executive Board decided to move this activity on harmonisation to the Technical Committee on Education (TC3) and Mr. Ian Mitchell from New Zealand was appointed chair of a new Working Party on the “Harmonisation of Professional Standards”. The work of this working party was to agree upon a document that clearly set out the standards of tertiary education, experience or practice, ethics, and continuing education that a customer might expect from a practitioner offering services to the public. This document was then intended
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