This work examines the changes in IT education which are imposed by the proliferation of networked applications within commercial organisations. Topics covered include: review of the state of the art in network-centric, multimedia IT applications; positive and negative impact of network-centric, multimedia IT on business and professional educational activities; security and rights management of computer-based information systems; ethics of network uses; the applications of the Internet and Intranet in business, industry, public administration, professional education and training; cooperation between the educational system and industry; providing competencies for professional education stakeholders to cope with drastic changes in IT; and measurement and analysis of IT education and training. It contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Educating Professionals for Network-Centric Organisations sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in August 1998 in Saitama, Japan.
