SADIO is the Argentine Society of Informatics and Operational Research.

It is a scientific association that gathers academia practitioners and students. It was established in 1960 and was a Full Member of IFIP from 1979 to 1993 Then, for financial reasons it became a Corresponding Member. Now SADIO is applying to be reinstated as Full Member of IFIP.

• 27^th JAIIO (Annual Meeting on Informatics) and 9^th CLAIO. (Latin Iberoamerican Congress on Operations Research. Both events were held together in August 1998 They were structured in 5 Symposiums and one Workshop, with a total attendance of 700, 227 of which were students and teachers. The Tutorials, Conferences and Symposium, were directed or had the participation of first level international personalities for all over the world, such as, for example: Egon Balas, from Carnegie Mellon University, Sergio Bandinelli, from SEI, Ivan Tomek, from Arcadia University, Canada, Mary Lynn Mans, of North Caroline University in USA, Andres Weintraub, President of IFORS, and so on.

• 28^th JAIIO, the Argentine Annual meeting on Informatics and Operation Research, is ready to be held at the beginning of September. It consist of 10 Symposiums, and it will be held together with three Tutorials on Networks and Distributed Systems sponsored by the TC6 of IFIP. Lectures will be André Danthine, Lorne Mason and Ramón Puigjaner.
  
• Seminars: 14 short Seminars with 163 class hours and 186 attendants (66 members of our society) were held between august 1998 and July 1999.
  
• EJS: Electronic Journal of SADIO (in English). Two issues of our Electronic Journal have been published since 1998 with several scientific articles of first level and other subjects interesting for the informatic community. They can be seen in our EJS Web address: http://www.dc.uba.ar/sadio/ejs. Or its 50 mirrors in Europe and Asia.

• Publications: As each year, 5 issues of our Newsletter were published in Spanish. The Newsletter devotes a special column to detail IFIP activities and news. The last issue (July-August 1999), resumed in 7 pages the 98 GA in Budapest, the Manchester celebration, the financial help to developing countries related to IFIP, IFIP/UNESCO informatics curricula and the appliance to reinstate our Full Membership.

• International Connections: Besides IFIP, SADIO is a member of IFORS (International Federation of Operations Research) and ALIO (The Latin-American Association of Operations Research). It has an agreement with ACM about joint membership and it also has good relations with the Argentine Chapter of IEEE, with whom SADIO have an agreement by which IEEE members participate in SADIO activities in the same conditions of SADIO members.

1.2.- Review of TC membership:

.With the perspective of being reinstated as a Full Member of IFIP, SADIO is preparing itself to reassume and reinforce its participation in the Technical Comities. In particular

• TC1: Joost Heinz, member of the universities of Buenos aires and Cantabria, is already involved in TC1, currently as an observer.
  
• TC2: Originally, the current Secretary of TC2, Armando Haeberer, was nominated as representative of SADIO. Having SADIO downgraded its membership status, Haeberer passed to represent Brasil. Currently we are working in involving more argentine technicians in TC2 activities.

• TC7: Hugo Scolnick, member of the University of Buenos Aires, is already involved in this Committee.

The Council of SADIO is talking with other experts, to involve them in TC’s activities after reinstating SADIO's Full Membership.

On 31/12/98 we had 538 active members; 62 new associates were accepted during 1998 and 31 resigned.

PRESIDENT:    Edmundo Dante Ramos: Larraya 3551 - 1439 - Buenos Aires.-
                            Phone: (0054) (11) 4601-3209.- E-mail: edr@tearg.com.ar.

SECRETARY:   Jorge Clot: Beauchef 435 - 1424 - Buenos Aires.
                            Phone: (0054) (11) 4902-2124.- E- mail: clot@sicoar.com.ar

TREASURER:  Mario Weber: Coronel Díaz 1705 1 C - 1425 - Buenos Aires
                            Phone: (0054) (11) 4822 –2320.- E-mail: teamwe@tearg.com.ar

2.1.- In our home page < http://www.sadio.org.ar/28jaiio/28jaiioc.html >, we have set links pointing to IFIP and its TC6. This practice of linking IFIP members with IFIP and IFIP with its members using links of the Web, could well install a possibility of exchanging information among IT communities of different regions.

2.2.- As we already stated in our answer of 5/8/98 to input to the Strategic Planning Process, we still think that it would be important:

• To develop and conduct locally, a range of STATE OF THE ART TUTORIALS on leading edges in specific fields. (this is beginning to became a reality ; in our 28^th Annual Congress TC6 of IFIP will be present as we stated above).
• To gather experts and conduct and publish discussions locally, on the trends of leading edge technologies.
• To reinforce the presence and visibility of IFIP in national activities of its Member Societies by means of visits of authorities and experts who could promote international contacts and activities.