Formed in 1965, the CSI has been instrumental in guiding the Indian IT industry down the right path since its formative years. Today, the CSI has 72 chapters all over India, 511 student branches, and more than 100000 members including India's most famous IT industry leaders, brilliant scientists and dedicated academicians.

CSI is the only member in IFIP from India (International Federation for Information Processing)

The CSI Vision: "lT for Masses"

Keeping in mind the interest of the IT professionals & computer users CSI works towards making the profession an area of choice amongst all sections of society. The promotion of Information Technology as a profession is the top priority of CSI today. To fulfil this objective, the CSI regularly organizes conferences, conventions, lectures, projects, awards. And at the same time, it also ensures that regular training and skill updating are organised for the IT professionals. Education Directorate, CSI helps physically challenged citizens by providing training ‘Punarjani’. CSI also works towards a global approach, by seeking out alliances with organizations overseas who may be willing to come forward and participate in such activities. CSI also helps governments in formulating IT strategy & planning

Youth and CSI

Being closely associated with Students the Society has developed a well-established network of “Student Branches” all across the country. CSI has 488 student branches with more than 90,000 Student Volunteers across the nation. The activities conducted for the Students associated with the Society include lecture meetings, seminars, conferences, training programmes, programming contests and practical visits to installations. CSI has a strong Educational Directorate based in Chennai which undertakes activities related to the Certification of professionals related to the latest technologies. Its recent initiative of distance education in the Business Domain areas offers technology-enabled learning supported by personal counselling & expert advice. In an ever-changing environment, CSI offers professional counselling being a great need of the hour. And this is done by being in close contact with its young members through various events, conferences, symposia to name a few. CSI regularly organises SEARCC Programming Contest, Alan Turning Quiz, Discover Thinking Project Contest, On-line Programming Contest etc. for the students.

Events at CSI

As part of its endeavour to bring together and assimilate various aspects of IT, CSI conducts premier events such as a National Convention, Regional Conferences, Theme Conferences focusing on verticals etc. Apart from this number of workshops re-conducted at the local chapters to get such professionals together on a common platform. Besides the Convention, the Society also conducts an “Exhibition” which endeavours to bring in the manufacturers and system developers to exhibit their products & services to the professionals. The Society organises various panel discussions and these views are compiled so that they can be protected as the views of CSI at the appropriate forums. CSI conducted ESDM workshops at many locations in association with DeITy, Government of India.

Benefits for CSI Members: Knowledge Sharing and Networking

Being a CSI member one can avail the opportunities like:

• Opportunity to participate in the international, national, regional and chapter events of CSI such as conferences, seminars, symposia, workshops, technical talks, free lectures on latest technological advancements in IT at discounted rates between 10%-50%.
• Other important Chapter activities which offer a platform for networking with distinguished industry leaders, scientists, academicians include-
  • CSI-SPIN events
  • Knowledge Forum Activities
  • Security Forum Activities
  • Symposia
  • CIO Meets
  • Annual CIO Summit
• Opportunity to offer workshops/training in collaboration with CSI.
• Join Special Interest Group (SIG) for research, promotion, and dissemination activities for selected domains, both established and emerging.
• Opportunity to deliver guest lecturers in educational institutes associated to CSI across India. 
• Right to vote in CSI elections.
• Opportunity to become part of CSI management Committee at Chapter, Regional and National levels subject to the eligibility criteria.