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A Healthy PACE: Member and Humanitarian Service

IEEE

Humanitarian Activities and YOU

Catherine B. Nelson

Region 6 Humanitarian Activities

IEEE Humanitarian Activities

Humanitarian

Activities Committee (2016

) Laura Jacobs, Chair SIGHT, major continuous activity by 70+ groups world-wide with 5 in USA reporting, all in Region 6: Major IEEE HA events:IEEE GHTC – Region 6 (Seattle, SFBAC, SCV) – since 2011SusTech - Region 6 (Utah, Oregon) – since 2013IEEE HTC - Region 10 – Philippines – since 2013IEEE IHTC – Region 3,7 Canada – since 2013IEEE ISTAS – Region 8, Dublin and South AfricaIEEE MHTC – Region 9 – since 2015

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Humanitarian Activities Committee - Laura Jacobs, Chair

Region 6 - Catherine Nelson

, Humanitarian

Activities Chair SCV-Section - Catherine Nelson, GHTC Committee ChairSCV-Section- Daniel Lottis, SIGHT Committee Chairhttp://ieee-region6.org/humanitarian-activities/ Region 6 HA Officers

Some HA Chapter Contributions

Provided Grants/Subsidies for local student registration or for event for their Society or Chapter

At GHTC2014, SCV-WIE sponsored a WIE event and OEB Section subsidized 4 Ohlone College students’ registrationSupported Society presentations and exhibits; at GHTC2014, PES and The IEEE Smart Village (formerly Community Solutions Initiative) exhibited

IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee

The IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC) is tasked with supporting the Board-endorsed vision of IEEE volunteers around the world carrying out and/or supporting impactful humanitarian activities at the local level; i.e., "feet on the ground

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Provide grants for humanitarian eventshttp://www.ieee.org/documents/hac_event_rpf.pdf Jan 15th, Mar 15th, May 15th, July 15th, Sept 15th Provide grants for humanitarian projectshttp://www.ieee.org/documents/hac_project_rpf.pdf

Feb 15th

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, Aug 15

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http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate humanitarian_activities_committee.html

Laura Jacob, Chair

Mike Lightner

, Past Chair

Mario AlemanPaul CunninghamAlfredo HerreraKartik KulkarniTim LeeKevin PassinoJackie StensonVineeth VijayaraghavanHolly Schneider Brown, Staff LeadJackie Halliday, Program CoordinatorAd Hoc Committee on Humanitarian Initiatives Members

The Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT for short) is part of the HAC. It focuses on smaller projects and has a broader scope and portfolio.

To bring together members/IEEE OUs working in or wishing to work in humanitarian fields and to encourage and promote them in activities that use humanitarian technologies by giving them an opportunity for participation

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http://www.ieee.org/special_interest_group_on_humanitarian_technology.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/IEEESIGHT

SIGHT Steering Committee

Kartik

Kulkarni (Chair)

Ed AokiAlfredo Herrera (Engagement Subcommittee Chair)Nirupama Prakash KumarRay Larsen (Projects Subcommittee Chair)Raj MadhavanDeepak Mathur (Operations Subcommittee Chair)Eduardo NavarroJay PearlmanArjun PillaiSampathkumar VeeraraghavanPrasanna VenkatesanHolly Schneider Brown (Staff Lead)

SIGHT Groups/Projects

There

are

70+ Global active site groups with 5 in Region 6: San Diego, Santa Clara Valley, Seattle, Sierra Vista and Treasure Valley.Solar electric power for rickshaws or sensors for monitoring water quality in remote villages.STEM training with native American, working with inner city “refuges” to improve their skill base creation of new water assessment tools for drinking waterCollaboration with Engineering for Change Form a SIGHT group. Apply by completing the petition E-mail: Holly Schneider

Brownhttps://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/initiatives/sight_project_guidelines.pdf

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Focused on bringing together people to address the critical issues for the benefit of the resource-constrained and vulnerable populations. Chair Joe Decuir Vice-Chair Dick WilkinsSecretary / Program Manager Erik Godo Finance Chair / Treasurer Soon Wan & Mei Chien LuProgram Chair John Prohodsky & Vasu Alturihttp://sites.ieee.org/ghtc/

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Foster exchange of information, networking, and cooperation in the humanitarian and emergency management fields.Focus attention on businesses who are enabling technologies in support of humanitarian principles and ways of operating.Impact in positive and meaningful ways lives of disadvantaged billions of people around the world.Explore science, engineering and technology solutions for vulnerable communities and attract young people to these professional fields.Highlight humanitarian technologies that promote successful practice, and attract humanitarian and emergency management practitioners in order to learn from their successes and better guide future research.

GHTC Conference Mission

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Catherine Nelson, Ed Perkins, Michael Andrews, Tom Coughlin, Lewis Terman, Ray Larsen, Ed Aoki, Nathan Johnson, Daniel Lottis, Kathleen KramerOversee GHTC Conference from year to yearChoose the GHTC conference committee Catherine Nelson and Ed Aoki driving the creation of a GHTC “Playbook” containing Roles/ Responsibilities, Deliverables, helpful hints to volunteers…Currently starting process for the GHTC 2017 committeeIf you have conference skills let us know !!catherine.nelson@ieee.org or e.aoki@

ieee.org

GHTC Advisory Committee

GHTC sponsors

Each conference has financial sponsors and technical sponsors

For GHTC 2015, the financial co-sponsors were Region 6 and Seattle Section

For GHTC 2015, we did a lot of networking. We had six technical co-sponsors: IEEE USASSIT They also sponsor ISTAS in Region 8CES mobile communicationsEMBS medicine/healthPES powerMTTS mobile communications1/28/201613

GHTC 2015 status

We had a problem with

CfP

publicitynot coverage in several RegionsWe got about 200 contributionsAbout 100 were presentedAbout 240 registrations, majority paidGreat news: IEEE consented to allow the conference papers to be Open Access on Xplore right awayMore: we recorded many of the Sessions with Camtasia tool (ppt + audio)When ready we will post them on Region 61/28/201614

GHTC finances

GHTC 2011 broke even, as expected

GHTC 2012 lost a lot of money!

GHTC 2013 and 2014 did well, with careful financial controls. (Kudos to Ed Aoki et al)GHTC 2015 did amazingly well: we kept the financial controls, with better fundraising:IEEE HAC & NASA ($75K)Global Good, Boeing & Microsoft ($35K) Private and exhibitorsGHTC 2016: current MOU is 100% Region 6Seattle Section will be added with new officers1/28/201615

GHTC mission: add entrepreneurial community

We believe that IEEE should be judged on impact, not just fattening Xplore

For GHTC 2015, we tried to plan a hackathon. We did not succeed.

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GHTC 2016 status

The core team is in place, appointed by the Advisory committee (previous slide)

MOU done, and hotel contract signed

The program team has assembled a CfP (v7)That will be publicized:Via IEEE RegionsVia all technical cosponsors, + TAB & EABVia all accessible NGOs, and engineering orgsWe are busy raising funds again.Some will stay, some will dropWe will recruit some new onesWe need a webmaster, to relieve Ed1/28/201617

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Submit a paper or presentation - due Mar/April 2016Attend the conference – Oct 2016Volunteer to be sessions chairs/ paper reviewers/ on-site staffIf you have conference skills and the time there may be positions still needed on the conference committee. Contact the chair, Joe Decuir, jdecuir@ieee.orgJoin the organizing committee as staff-in-training for future years

How you can get involved GHTC

Volunteer

Get Involved

Make a Difference

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