ITHS will:

  • 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

An early computing mechanism, the Antikythera device

An early computing mechanism, the Antikythera device