About BCS

BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT

At BCS, we’re on a mission to ensure everyone’s experience with technology is positive. It’s something we’ve been committed to since 1957.

We’re over 60,000 members in 150 countries, and a wider community of business leaders, educators, practitioners and policy-makers all committed to our mission.

As a charity with a royal charter, our agenda is to lead the IT industry through its ethical challenges, to support the people who work in the industry, and to make IT good for society.

At BCS, we’re ensuring the digital journey is safe and positive for everyone, by raising standards of competence and conduct across the IT industry and tackling the ethical challenges we face along the way.

Everything we do at BCS is built on our four strategic pillars, which make it possible for us to raise standards and realise greater potential in the technology industry.

Royal Charter

The Duke of Kent has been the royal patron since 1976 and BCS was granted a royal charter by the Privy Council in 1984.

We’re responsible for raising the standards of IT education, professionalism, ethics and practice – it’s all set out in our charter.