The British Computer Society - adapting for the new Millennium

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Why are you here?

• Academic
• Boring
• Bureaucratic
• Irrelevant
• Old fashioned
• Reactive - not leading
• Slow

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3 Year Strategic Plan

• Aims to make BCS Attractive
• To you
• and to others who should be members

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Strategic Objectives

• Increase relevance visibility
• Engagement with the IS communities
• Establish record for quality and value
• Enhance professional programmes
• Sustain financial foundation

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To be achieved through

• Brand strategy
• Authoritative Progressive
• Enabling Relevant
• Ethical Responsive
• Web service enhancement
• Initiated September 2001 - try it!
• Even the section on CPD!!
• New organisational structure

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New Organisation

• 4 Boards, each led by a VPfocus on action, not
  debate
• Membership Services
• Includes responsibility for Branches and SIGs
• Qualifications and Standards
• Knowledge Services
• External Relations

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New Organisation

• 3 Forums, each led by a VP
• Engineering and Technology
• Education and Training
• Management
• Members entitled to join any, or all, Forum(s)

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New Admission System

• Points-based entry system
• 100 for MBCS
• 70 for AMBCS
• Wider range of academic qualifications
• Wider potential constituency
• More streamlined process

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We are a Section!

• 15 of members reside outside U.K.
• Overseas Committee
• Active sections
• Belgium
• Eastern North America
• Hong Kong
• Malta
• Netherlands?
• Sri Lanka

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Belgian Section

• Active since 1999
• New Committee
• Chairman John Wells
• Secretary Phil Jones
• Treasurer Tom Servaes
• Martin Brown Andrew CrowtherSteve Deighton
  Geoff FrancisNadine Mouali
• But rules say AGM needed in May

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Belgian Section Objectives

• Promote contact between members
• Mutual support advice
• Contribute to professional development
• Talks visits
• Lobby towards BCS
• Promote relevance of BCS in Belgium
• You tell us!!!!

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Plans for coming year

• Monthly meetings
• 3rd Monday of each month
• Mix of talks social get-togethers
• 15 April - social at Montgomery Hotel
• 27 May - talk t.b.d. AGM (NB not 20th)
• 17 June - talk t.b.d.
• 15 July - social
• 19 August - social
• 16 September - talk t.b.d.

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Today

• Overview of the .NET Framework - Microsoft's new
  platform and it's applications
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• Tom Servaes, MBCS