[3] A working group, coordinated by the ETH Zurich, deals with data bases, their theory and application, including aspects such as "web information systems, ontologies, XML data management, service-oriented architectures and information retrieval systems".
[5] SI collaborates with the US Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the German Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).
[3] The organization is a member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) [6] and International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).
[3] Collaborations include for example a conference on the "role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in energy efficiency and sustainable development" in Zurich in 2013.
The program includes events of working groups, lectures by scientists from the University of Zurich and others, prizes for bachelor's and master's theses, and a final discussion on the future of IT education in Switzerland.