[2] The Computer Society of India is a non-profit professional meet to exchange views and information to learn and share ideas.

A Directorate of Education was set up in 1985, and a number of modules, such as Systems Analysis and Design, Data Communication, OS, and DBMS, are covered, in order to ensure a minimum level of professional competence, especially amongst those without a university background.

Its recent initiative of distance education in the Business Domain areas offers technology enabled learning supported by personal counselling & expert advice.

Computer Society of India (CSI), has implemented the concept of “Special Interest Groups” to promote activities and research in dew focused areas.

This SIG provides help, support and organizes events on its own and with member institutes and other ministries to promote start-up formation, legal, financials, technical and marketings issues etc.

[5] Special Interest Group on Free and Open Source Software (CSI-SIG-FOSS) : One of the earliest SIGs, the SIG-FOSS has been carrying out several activities across the country in promoting the use of FOSS.

In 2009, the SIG organized SciPy 2009 in collaboration with IIT-Bombay, and in 2010, conducted two major events: the National Seminar on FOSS in Education, hosted by NIT Calicut, together with IIIT Hyderabad.

CSI Communications is a monthly theme based national publication covering technical articles of current interests and reports of conferences, symposia, and seminars.