Individual Membership Benefits

1. Participation and Dissemination Opportunities 

ICST Events

ICST has sponsored over a hundred and fifty annual international scientific conferences, summits, workshops and symposia. The events cover a wide array of topics related to Information and Communication Technology and are held on all five continents. Members can take advantage of significant registration discounts.

ICST Publications

The ICST’s publication portfolio consists of books series, over 30 journals, an on-line magazine and conference proceedings. The state-of-the-art ICST publication model drastically shortens the publication cycle, triggers innovation and provides inherent incentives for quality. Members can purchase publications at discounted affiliate rates.

ICaST

ICaST is the Society’s on-line magazine, freely accessible to ICST members. Members can submit work-in-progress articles for peer review, exchange ideas through interactive forums, identify partners for research consortia, learn about upcoming Society events and activities and acquire information on project and funding opportunities offered by the European Commission.

EUDL

 The European Union Digital Library (EUDL) is the central repository of all scientific content published under ICST copyright, including conference proceedings, journal papers, book chapters and magazine articles. Members have free access to browse the articles on an OPEN ACCESS basis.

2. Society and Career Building Tools and Forums

AGORA

 The ICST AGORA is both a marketplace of ideas and an open forum that enables members to collectively shape and form the Society and its wide range of scientific activities in a direct and active manner. This unfiltered, non-mediated way of proposing new conference and publication related ideas, voting on suggested activities and volunteer for participation opportunities ensures that content and value are both co-created by the global membership in a bottom-up way.

Participation in the EAI

ICST, as a member of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI), offers participation options in this unique pan-European umbrella organization that gathers numerous players (research, education, government, venture capital and standardisation) in the field of Innovation. Members will have access to the Alliance’s on-line community portal, and involvement opportunities in the Science for Innovation, Business and Technology Councils (SIBs) that cover a range of ICT-related areas.

SIB Councils

EAI is organized into Science for Innovation, Business and Technology (SIB) Councils to cover the wide scope of relevance of the Information and Communication Technology field.  Each SIB is a meeting place, both on-line and in person, for members representing academic and financial institutions, research centres, corporations and government bodies joining forces to advance science and technology by sharing ideas and jointly opening doors to innovation.

3. Submission and Collaborative Tools

e-SCRIPTS

e-SCRIPTS is ICST’s revolutionary, peer reviewed, multidisciplinary journal publication system that facilitates the paper upload and review processes. Members can upload papers or bid for reviewing using this Web 2.0 inspired mechanism.

ASSYST

ICST offers a sophisticated software application, the Article Submission System (ASSYST), to facilitate the paper submission and review processes of ICST sponsored conferences. Throughout the organizational process of a technical conference, ASSYST is used by multiple members of the Organizing Committee as well as by all the authors submitting papers to the conference.

MyBOARD

MyBOARD is the gate to ICST services, activities, benefits, updates and current news. It is a personalized single user page for ICST members, set according to the individual member’s area of interest and preferences.

4. Objective Reward Mechanism

Science Rewards Program

Members’ contribution is measured objectively through the Science Rewards Program (SRP). SRP is ICST’s incentive program, designed to inherently promote excellence, encourage participation, boost scientific information exchange and reward member contribution with Science Reward Points, which are redeemable for ICST products and services.