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 2011 SusTech - Region 6 (Utah, Oregon) – since 2013 IEEE HTC - Region 10 – Philippines – since 2013 IEEE IHTC – Region 3,7 Canada – since 2013 IEEE ISTAS – Region 8, Dublin and South Africa IEEE MHTC – Region 9 – since 2015 9/22/2018

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

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’ registration Supported 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.” Provide grants for humanitarian events http://www.ieee.org/documents/hac_event_rpf.pdf Jan 15th, Mar 15th, May 15th, July 15th, Sept 15th Provide grants for humanitarian projects http://www.ieee.org/documents/hac_project_rpf.pdf Feb 15th, May 15th, Aug 15th http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate humanitarian_activities_committee.html NOTE: NOT holding many Conferences, Meetings, Events

Ad Hoc Committee on Humanitarian Initiatives Members Laura Jacob, Chair Mike Lightner, Past Chair Mario Aleman Paul Cunningham Alfredo Herrera Kartik Kulkarni Tim Lee Kevin Passino Jackie Stenson Vineeth Vijayaraghavan Holly Schneider Brown, Staff Lead Jackie Halliday, Program Coordinator

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. http://www.ieee.org/special_interest_group_on_humanitarian_technology.html https://www.facebook.com/IEEESIGHT

SIGHT Steering Committee Kartik Kulkarni (Chair) Ed Aoki Alfredo Herrera (Engagement Subcommittee Chair) Nirupama Prakash Kumar Ray Larsen (Projects Subcommittee Chair) Raj Madhavan Deepak Mathur (Operations Subcommittee Chair) Eduardo Navarro Jay Pearlman Arjun Pillai Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan Prasanna Venkatesan Holly 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 water Collaboration with Engineering for Change Form a SIGHT group. Apply by completing the petition E-mail: Holly Schneider Brown https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/initiatives/sight_project_guidelines.pdf 9/22/2018

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 Wilkins Secretary / Program Manager Erik Godo Finance Chair / Treasurer Soon Wan & Mei Chien Lu Program Chair John Prohodsky & Vasu Alturi http://sites.ieee.org/ghtc/ 9/22/2018

GHTC Conference Mission 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. 9/22/2018

GHTC Advisory Committee Catherine Nelson, Ed Perkins, Michael Andrews, Tom Coughlin, Lewis Terman, Ray Larsen, Ed Aoki, Nathan Johnson, Daniel Lottis, Kathleen Kramer Oversee GHTC Conference from year to year Choose 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 committee If you have conference skills let us know !! catherine.nelson@ieee.org or e.aoki@ieee.org 9/22/2018

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 USA SSIT They also sponsor ISTAS in Region 8 CES mobile communications EMBS medicine/health PES power MTTS mobile communications 9/22/2018

GHTC 2015 status We had a problem with CfP publicity not coverage in several Regions We got about 200 contributions About 100 were presented About 240 registrations, majority paid Great news: IEEE consented to allow the conference papers to be Open Access on Xplore right away More: we recorded many of the Sessions with Camtasia tool (ppt + audio) When ready we will post them on Region 6 9/22/2018

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 exhibitors GHTC 2016: current MOU is 100% Region 6 Seattle Section will be added with new officers 9/22/2018

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. We considered Startup Weekends, too. Recommendation: SIGHT chapters should plan hackathons. Some are already doing that! New plan: create a 9th focus area on “Deployment, aka implementation, commercialization” We want to know what works and doesn’t work 9/22/2018

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 Regions Via all technical cosponsors, + TAB & EAB Via all accessible NGOs, and engineering orgs We are busy raising funds again. Some will stay, some will drop We will recruit some new ones We need a webmaster, to relieve Ed 9/22/2018

How you can get involved GHTC Submit a paper or presentation - due Mar/April 2016 Attend the conference – Oct 2016 Volunteer to be sessions chairs/ paper reviewers/ on-site staff If you have conference skills and the time there may be positions still needed on the conference committee. Contact the chair, Joe Decuir, jdecuir@ieee.org Join the organizing committee as staff-in-training for future years 9/22/2018

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