The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

International Federation for Information Processing

    A multinational federation of professional and technical
   organisations (or national groupings of such organisations)
   concerned with information processing.  From any one country,
   only one such organisation - which must be representative of
   the national activities in the field of information processing
   - can be admitted as a Full Member.  In addition, a regional
   group of developing countries can be admitted as a Full
   Member.  On 1 October 1993, 46 organisations were Full Members
   of the Federation, representing 66 countries.

   IFIP was founded under the auspices of UNESCO and advises them
   and the ITU-T.

   (http://dit.upm.es/~cdk/ifip.html).

   (1995-03-10)