Operating Plan
An early computing mechanism,
the Antikythera device
- Maintain a website that explains the mission, activities,
and people associated with ITHS
- Use the website as a place to provide information that is
useful to the advancement of the IT history field
- Organize conferences that help to build a sense of community
and provide a place for the community to address issues of
common concern
- Work to build a more effective network of the organizations
actively working in the IT history area
- Take steps to help build a sense of community among individual
IT history practitioners
- Work to expand capacity in the IT history field by encouraging
other institutions, especially corporations, to become more
interested in IT history and support projects in this area
- Publicize the importance of IT in modern world development
and the value of history in understanding this remarkable development
- Work to resolve common problems of the IT history field and
take advantage of opportunities - as identified by the ITHS
archival and historical advisory committees
- Fund projects endorsed by the ITHS archival and historical
advisory committees within the organization's means
- Encourage other individuals and institutions to support these
endorsed projects and other projects in the IT history field
ITHS will not:
- Compete with individuals and institutions doing work on IT
history
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