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Committee Endorses Strategic Information TechnologyPlan

Geneva, June 21, 1999
Press Updates UPD/1999/64

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Information Technologies (SCIT) has approved a draft Strategic Information Technology Plan designed to narrow the information gap between developed and developing countries, improve the flow worldwide of information relating to intellectual property rights, and improve the ability to retrieve and disseminate intellectual property information.

The plan was approved at the SCIT's third session, held from 14-15 June 1999. A main objective of the plan is to reduce costs and increase efficiency of a global information network specific to intellectual property.

In implementing the plan, the SCIT agreed to follow several strategies. Among these are the use of well-established project management and capital investment methodologies and a robust and scalable information technology architecture. In implementing the plan, WIPO will also use a proven systems development approach based on standards that support emerging, evolving and commercial or "off-the-shelf" software. Critical to the success of the plan will be a reliable, secure network. Of equal importance is the concept of "change management" to prepare everyone for the transition from paper-based systems to those that reflect state-of-the-art data and information dissemination operations based on the latest information technology.

The secretariat expects to present a comprehensive plan at the strategic and business operations levels, to the SCIT by September. Following receipt of comments during the period October-November, the secretariat's proposed plan will be taken up at the next session of the SCIT plenary from December 6 to 10, 1999. That plan will guide the development and implementation of approximately 40 interrelated information technology projects, including IMPACT, the automated PCT system, and WIPONET, WIPO's Internet-based worldwide information system for the 21st century. WIPONET, the first global project to be undertaken by WIPO using information technology, will improve access to and exchange of intellectual property information by providing network services to intellectual property offices worldwide. Implementation of WIPONET is currently in the pilot phase.

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