--aid ACM in internationally relevant issues relating to computers and public policy
	--help make ACM more visible worldwide. The most visible project is the ACM Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems (RISKS Forum), established in 1985.

There is some overlap with other ACM committees. (For example, Jim Horning and Peter Neumann are active members of both CCPP and USACM.) However, the charters of CCPP and USACM are quite different. Although there is some commonality of problem areas, CCPP considers the problems globally and in some cases universally, whereas USACM has an explicitly US-centric focus.

The ACM RISKS Forum, moderated by CCPP Chair Peter Neumann, is an online dialogue on risks to the public in computers and related systems, and is heavily involved in issues such as human safety, privacy, ethics, and legal responsibility. The RISKS Forum activity involves many people around the world, some of whom are contributing to the CCPP effort through their RISKS submissions.

Inside Risks is a monthly column appearing in Communications of the ACM, edited by Peter Neumann and consisting of articles by various contributors, some of whom are on the CCPP. An archive of the columns is available at http://www.CSL.sri.com/neumann/insiderisks.html.

Edited and distilled highlights from the columns appear bimonthly in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes.

Each July, CCPP publishes its annual report detailing activities from the previous fiscal year.

	Peter G. Neumann, pneumannacm.org
	Steve Bellovin, smbcolumbia.cs.edu
	Peter J. Denning, pjdnps.edu
	Virgil Gligor, gligoreng.umd.edu
	Jim Horning, horningacm.org
	Nancy Leveson, levesonmit.edu
	David Parnas, parnasmcmaster.ca
	Jerry Saltzer, saltzermit.edu
	Lauren Weinstein, laurenvortex.com