The Computer Technology Institute and Press (CTI) was founded in 1985 as the Computer Technology Institute with headquarters in the city of Patra, Greece, as a Non Profit Private Legal Entity, supervised by the General Secretariat of Research and Technology, (Presidential Decree 9/1985).
Since 1992 CTI has been supervised by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs as a financially, administratively and scientifically independent institution. In 2001 it was renamed as Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (Law 2909, art. 2).
Under the new law 3966/2011 its name was changed to Computer Technology Institute and Press and it was established as the technological pillar supporting CTI in education and as the publishing body of Greek school books and electronic educational materials.
CTI is also responsible for the administration of the Greek School Network, the largest user network in Greece.
Σύμφωνα με το θεσμικό καθεστώς λειτουργίας του, διοικείται από Πρόεδρο και 9μελές Διοικητικό Συμβούλιο. Επιχειρησιακά λειτουργεί σύμφωνα με τους κανόνες που διέπουν τον ιδιωτικό τομέα.
Η επιτυχημένη πορεία του οργανισμού πιστώνεται στα στελέχη και το προσωπικό του, με πρώτους στην ιεραρχία τους διατελέσαντες διευθυντές, που έθεσαν τα θεμέλια της ανάπτυξης ενός σύγχρονου ερευνητικού ιδρύματος στην ελληνική περιφέρεια.
ιFormer Directors:
Professor Theodore S. Papatheodorou (1985 - 1990)