New Core Body Of Knowledge for the ICT Profession

The Professional Standards Board of the Australian Computer Society have released for comment a discussion paper on a review of the Core Body Of Knowledge for the ICT Profession.

In January the ACS combined its Accreditation, Assessment and Appeals Board and Membership Standards Board into a new Professional Standards (PS) Board. The new Board is reviewing the ACS Core Body of Knowledge (CBOK) by June 2008. The Board has invited comment on the Discussion Paper (details in the paper):

Contents
List of Acronyms
1. Introduction
2. Core Body of Knowledge revision process
3. Defining the ICT/Computing Profession
4. Rationale for the ACS Core Body of Knowledge
5. Current Core Body of Knowledge
6. Some initial common ground
7. Moving forward
8. Remaining issues
9. References
Appendix A Professional Standards Board Membership
Appendix B ACS Qualifications Framework for ICT
Professionals

From: "Redefining And Building The ICT Profession: Core Body Of Knowledge Review", Professional Standards Board , Australian Computer Society, Version 2.0, 21 June 2007

It covers all the right buzzwords:

ACPHIS Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems
ACS Australian Computer Society
AAIS Australasian Association of Information Systems
AIIA Australian Information Industry Association
AQF Australian Qualifications Framework
CBOK Core Body of Knowledge
CORE Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia
CPP Computer Professional Program (offered by the ACS)
CS Computer Science
EQF European Qualifications Framework
IS Information Systems
IT Information Technology
ICT Information and Communications Technology
IFIP International Federation of Information Processing
PS Professional Standards
SE Software Engineering
SFIA Skills Framework for the Information Age

List of Acronyms from "Redefining And Building The ICT Profession: Core Body Of Knowledge Review", Professional Standards Board , Australian Computer Society, Version 2.0, 21 June 2007

ps: I have an interest in this as I chair the ACS's Professional Development Board.