INTERSTENO STRUCTURE

Following the approval of the final new version of the Statute, which took place at the Congress of Prague 2007 and the following changes during the Assemblies in Beijing 2009 and Paris 2011, the bodies of Intersteno are:

  • The Board
  • The President,
  • The Vice Presidents (2),
  • The Secretary Treasurer,
  • The Coordinator of the Jury,
  • The Coordinator of the Scientific Committee
  • The Coordinator of IPRS (Intersteno professional reporters section)
  • The Council (previously named Central Committee)
  • which is composed by a Representative for each Nation
  • The General Assembly
  • is composed by the Members of the Council and by an additional number of persons who have the power to vote. The number of these persons (delegates) is calculated with relation to the population of the Country they are representing (minimum 3, maximum 14)
  • Each Associated Member have 1 vote right
  • The Jury of the International contests
  • It is composed by a President (elected by the Council)
  • and other members who are responsible for the coordination of one or more of the contests.
  • The Scientific Committee
  • The Scientific Committee is composed of a chairman (dr prof Boris Neubauer since 2007) and at least three other members. An Education Committee is also included in this group, and is chaired by Mr. Tang Keliang (China) since 2009.
  • The Auditing Committee
  • It is composed by 3 delegates
Intersteno also includes a Group of Parliamentary Reporters (IPRS) whose activity is now coordinated by the Board, and specifically by Ms. Rian Schwarz-van Poppeln who succeded in 2009 to Mr. Cees van Beurden. A specific e-news letter is released to this Group and a reserved forum for them is available on Facebook. From 2011 a web site www.iprs-info.org is also devoted to this group.

      All chairs are elected for 2 years and the persons can be re-elected.

      The constitution approved in Rome 2003, forsaw election for 4 years. On a temporary base, for the years 2003 - 2005 Ms Marlise Kulb (who was organizing the Congress in Wien in 2005) was also named President of Intersteno, and her duty was replaced by Mr Jaroslav Zaviacic who organized the Congress in Prague 2007, where the Statute of Intersteno was finally approved. The chair period lasts 2 years.

      At the Congress in Beijing 2009, two modifications were approved: the use of the words 'Associated Member' instead of 'Individual member' which was creating a bit of confusion, since this kind of membership is only granted after approval from the Council and the General Assembly and can be granted both to individual or entities. The second change was the quorum of 50 % of the countries' representatives for taking decisions in the Council.

      At the Congress in Paris 2011, the Assembly unanimously approved the new complete denomination of Intersteno as ' International Federation for Information and Communication Processing' as well as possibility to have 2 Vice Presidents instead of only 1.