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This
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Journal
for
the Informatics Professional, and UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork).
UPGRADE is a technical, independent, non-commercial, and freely distributed electronic publication, promoted by CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), an organization that unites 36 Informatics Professional Societies from 32 European countries and is the voice of more than 200,000 ICT Professionals in our continent.
UPENET is the network of publications, paper or electronic, from CEPIS member societies. It has UPGRADE as its anchor point.
Comments, criticisms, suggestions are much welcome and should be sent to the Editorial Team of UPGRADE.
September 22, 2008: Latest news about UPGRADE and UPENET
- Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
The latest issue of our open digital journal, corresponding to August 2008, is available now at this website.
It features the following sections:
- A monograph
entitled “EUCIP: A Model for Definition and Measurement of ICT Skills”
which is intended to provide a comprehensive view of all aspects of the
EUCIP model. EUCIP is presented as a CEPIS development which aims to
set the basis for building solutions to the complex issues of
professionalism and effective management of ICT competences. The
collaborative European-wide development of EUCIP, including
descriptions of several precedent initiatives, is revisited.
Experiences which are taking place in eight European countries are also
presented, so that EUCIP is described as a unique example of multiple
multi-stakeholder partnership having different forms in different
countries.
The guest
editors of that monograph are Renny Bakke Amundsen
(Norwegian Computer Society, Norway), Neil Farren
(ECDL Foundation, Ireland), and Paolo Schgör
(AICA, Italy).
- UPENET
(UPGRADE European
NETwork), with an article from the Spanish journal Novática
which describes the ICING (Innovative Cities for the Next Generation)
project, an initiative of the City Councils of Barcelona, Dublín
and Helsinki, to work together on R&D with the purpose of finding a
way to deploy citizen-oriented services through mobile phones and Web
2.0 technologies.
- CEPIS
NEWS which includes an article drawn from the findings of
“Thinking Ahead of e-Skills for the ICT Industry in Europe”, a report
published for the European Commission by a consortium led by CEPIS.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
- Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
The latest issue of our open digital journal, corresponding to June 2008, is available now at this website.
It features the following sections:
- A monograph
entitled “Technology-Enhanced Learning” describing how cutting-edge
Information Technologies are helping to enhance learning processes. The
monograph combines such concepts as e-Learning, Game-Based Learning,
Mobile Learning, Collaborative Learning, and Television Learning with
Virtual and 3D Environments, Web 2.0 Technologies, Participatory
Ecosystems, etc. in a very attractive and interesting set of materials
that shows to what extent learning opportunities are being enhanced in
the Information Era.
The guest
editors of that
monograph are Carlos Delgado-Kloos (Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain) and Fridolin Wild (Vienna
University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria).
- UPENET
(UPGRADE
European NETwork), with an article from the
British magazine ITNOW
which reports on the ideas that emerged at a seminar held by the British Computer Society (BCS) on the
ethics and legality of autonomous and automatic weapon systems.
- CEPIS
NEWS which includes an article reporting on the Harmonise
Project outcomes recently officially approved by the European
Commission with a highly positive rating.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
- Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
- New UPENET Partners
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
The latest issue of our open digital journal, corresponding to April 2008, is available now at this website.
It features the following sections:
- A monograph
that under the title "Model-Driven
Software Development" presents the modern Model-Driven Engineering
(MDE) technologies, how they have evolved since the launch of the Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
initiative by the Object Management
Group (OMG) eight years ago, and their state-of-the-art.
The guest
editors of that
monograph are Jean Bézivin (Université de Nantes, France),
Antonio Vallecillo-Moreno (Universidad de Málaga, Spain),
Jesús García-Molina (Universidad de Murcia, Spain),
and Gustavo Rossi (Universidad
Nacional de La Plata, Argentina).
- UPENET
(UPGRADE
European NETwork), with two articles: the first one from the
German journal Informatik
Spektrum reviews the results produced
by the TOP500 Project, which was conceived to track and detect trends
in high performance computing, since the days of its birth; the second
one from the Italian digital journal Mondo Digitale analyses the
factors that most commonly impede the management of IT projects.
- CEPIS
NEWS which is intended to provide some news around the projects
in which CEPIS and its member societies are involved.
New UPENET Partners
UPENET (UPGRADE European Network), the network of CEPIS member societies' publications, created in 2004, has two new members, so augmenting its membership to nine.
The two new UPENET partners are:
- Informatica, quarterly journal published, in English, by the Slovenian CEPIS member society Slovensko Drustvo Informatika (Slovenian Society Informatika, SDI). Informatica started in 1977, one year after SDI was established.
- Tölvumál,
biannual journal published, in Icelandic, by the Icelandic CEPIS
society Skýrslutæknifélagið
(Icelandic Society for Information Processing, ISIP). It was created in 1976.
By the way, Tölvumál
means "computer issues" in Icelandic.
We are sure that our new partners will contribute to enhance the scope and quality of materials as well as the relevance and usefulness of the UPGRADE contents for the ICT community in Europe and worldwide.
Dobrodosli, velkomin, welcome!
For more information about UPENET click here.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
July 1, 2008: New Deputy Chief Editor of UPGRADE
Francisco-Javier Cantais-Sánchez has been appointed for the new position of Deputy Chief Editor of UPGRADE.
Javier, a young Spanish lawyer and economist who has worked as an IT Consultant for important firms for several years, will cooperate closely with the Chief Editor in the diverse tasks required to publish a new issue of our digital journal every other month. Click here for his short professional bio.
Welcome on board, Javier!
- Latest issue of UPGRADE
available (edition in Spanish too)
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
It features the following sections:
- A monograph
entitled "IT Governance" which
aims to review the fashionable concepts and principles arising from
corporate governance issues, focusing on the need to align IT
departments' practices with business goals.
The guest
editors of that
monograph are Dídac López-Viñas (Universitat de Girona),
Antonio Valle-Salas (Abast Systems), Aleix
Palau-Escursell (Netmind), and Willem-Joep Spauwen (Quint
Wellington Redwood Iberia).
- UPENET
(UPGRADE
European NETwork), with an article from the Polish journal Pro Dialog which presents a broad
overview of aspect oriented programming and its correlation with object
oriented programming.
- CEPIS
NEWS which includes an article by the CEPIS Legal and Security
Experts Group on authentication approaches for online banking and
recommendations that can be given on this subject.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
- Latest issue of UPGRADE
available (edition in Spanish too)
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
It features the following sections:
- A monograph
that under the title "Free Software:
Research and Development" describes the
last developments in the Free Software field and how they can shape the
future of research and development activities, and even of the
so-called new economy itself.
The guest
editors of this
monograph are Andrea Capiluppi (University of Lincoln,
UK), José-Rafael
Rodriguez-Galván, Manuel Palomo-Duarte (Free Software Office, Universidad de Cádiz,
Spain), and
Israel
Herraiz (Universidad Rey Juan
Carlos, Spain).
- UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork), with an article from the Spanish journal Novática which presents some controversial discussions that the introduction of electronic passports has led. They are related to security features of those passports and new threats to the privacy of passport holders.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
To subscribe click here and follow the directions described.
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