IAIA 2010 Affiliates Forum

Dear colleagues,

As you may know, at the last IAIA Conference, in Accra, the program included a special session dedicated to the activities of the Affiliates, Branches and Associated Organizations. The session, called the “Affiliates Forum”, was open to all conference participants, scheduled as a concurrent session and replaced the traditional Affiliates Committee meeting. The session was well attended and the participants appreciated the opportunity of sharing and discussing their experiences.

For the next conference, in Geneva, we considered it to be important to focus the presentations and the discussion. I propose a debate with very short presentations on the following issue:

“The potential role of IAIA Affiliates and Branches in professional certification and promoting professional codes of conduct”

The schedule of the IAIA10 Affiliates Forum will be announced as soon as possible.

Each IAIA Affiliate, Branch or Associated Organization is invited to participate and make a presentation at that session. This presentation is not subject to the abstract submission procedure, but should be confirmed by mail (jen@iaia.org and julio.jesus@netcabo.pt) until February, 27th.

Furthermore, the Board also decided to organize a separate poster exhibition dedicated to Affiliates/Branches activities. Each Affiliate and Branch is invited to present a poster (in English) and a second poster in their own language (if applicable) on their organization and activities, without the need of submitting an abstract. The presentation of the posters should also be confirmed by mail (jen@iaia.org and julio.jesus@netcabo.pt) until February, 27th.

The posters should follow the general rules for poster presentation (see Preliminary Program, page 15 and IAIA website).

Please feel free to contact me (julio.jesus@netcabo.pt) or IAIA CEO, Rita Hamm (rita@iaia.org), or IAIA meetings specialist at IAIA-Headquarters, Jennifer Howell (jen@iaia.org), if you need any additional information.

I look forward to hear from you and expect to meet you at Geneva, next April!

Best regards,

Julio de Jesus
IAIA Director