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Socitm merges with charity IT association

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Published: 12 Dec 2008 12:03 GMT

The Society of IT Management is merging with the Charity IT Resource Alliance, an equivalent for IT professionals in the third sector.

Charity IT Resource Alliance (Citra) members will automatically become Socitm members on 1 January 2009. Its name will continue with a new third-sector special interest group within Socitm.

David Clayden, director of strategic information for the Salvation Army and a Citra board member, will join the board of Socitm.

Adrian Hancock, Socitm's managing director, said: "This merger responds directly to the growing need for collaboration between the third sector and local and national government. It also comes at a time when the society is transforming its ability to support professional development for its membership, not least in response to the government's IT profession agenda."

John Tate, chair of Citra, said: "We estimate that the third sector spends in excess of £750m annually on ICT and the sector needs skilled IT professionals to ensure that we are exploiting all of the potential benefits that technology can bring to our work. This merger provides a superb opportunity to support the development of the sector's IT capability."