Working Group 9.1 is the division within IFIP (the International Federation for Information Processing) responsible for research on computers and work.

After a few years of inactivity, a team of new officers is working to ‘relaunch’ IFIP WG 9.1. As the newly elected Secretary of the group, I will be the true power behind the throne, with the new Chair (Steve Sawyer, Penn State) and Vice Chair (Rudi Schmiede, Technische Universität Darmstadt) filling out the rest of the management team.

One of our first tasks is to create a new mission statement for the group. The current draft is:

The mission of IFIP Working Group 9.1 (Computers and Work) is to promote, facilitate and disseminate research on ICTs and work, in order to promote quality of life, technology that meets human needs, and social accountability. IFIP WG 9.1 strives to identify important new perspectives on the future of ICTs and new ways of working, and to communicate the social and organizational consequences of ICTs and work.

If you have comments or suggestions, we would love to hear them, either here on the blog, or at the new official IFIP WG 9.1 website.

Our next official workshop and meeting will be immediately after the ICIS 2007 conference in Montréal. Please join us!