GOLD Committee Meeting 17-19 May 2013 Toronto Region 8 GOLD Committee What’s up at GOLD R8 GOLD Committee Meeting 17-19 May 2013 Toronto Region 8 GOLD Committee

R8 GOLD Committee in 2013 gold.ieeer8.org

Salima Kaissi - Morocco Section Past Coordinator gold.ieeer8.org

Nele Reynders gold.ieeer8.org

Elena Pareja gold.ieeer8.org

Amir Zahoor gold.ieeer8.org

Rafal Sliz Coordinator gold.ieeer8.org

Current status of GOLD in R8 Total Region 8 Sections: 56 Total GOLD Affinity Groups: 38 Total R8 GOLD Members: 19934 GOLD Members Percentage in R8 : 30% gold.ieeer8.org

Current R8 GOLD Affinity Groups Status * GOLD AG that has not submitted report last year is considered as inactive. ** GOLD AG that has not submitted report in last two years is dormant. Total GOLD Affinity Groups 38 Active 27 New 4 Inactive * 2 Dormant ** 5 1/12/2019 gold.ieeer8.org

United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland GOLD in Region 8 GOLD members are distributed in Affinity Groups Benelux Bosnia & Herzegovina Croatia Czechoslovakia Cyprus Denmark Egypt Finland France Germany Greece Iraq Italy Jordan Kenya Lebanon Lithuania Malta Morocco Nigeria Poland Portugal Russia Russia (Northwest) Russia (Siberia) Saudi-Arabia East Saudi-Arabia West Slovenia South Africa North South Africa South Spain Sweden Switzerland Tunisia Turkey Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland gold.ieeer8.org

GOLD in Region 8 GOLD Affinity Groups in Sections gold.ieeer8.org

New Affinity Groups - Newly Formed GOLD AGs (2013) GOLD AG Current GOLD Members Poland 214 Kenya 26 Lithuania 34 Slovenia 76 gold.ieeer8.org

GOLD in Region 8 Sections with inactive or without GOLD Affinity Group Austria No GOLD AG 450/1274 Belarus No GOLD AG 17/45 Bulgaria No GOLD AG 64/273 Denmark Inactive GOLD AG 289/836 Estonia No GOLD AG 40/117 France Inactive GOLD AG 863/3555 Hungary No GOLD AG 110/402 Latvia No GOLD AG 48/121 Republic of Macedonia No GOLD AG 72/171 Romania No GOLD AG 259/897 Serbia and Montenegro No GOLD AG 275/698 Turkey Inactive GOLD AG 603/2110 gold.ieeer8.org

GOLD AGs that need attention - Inactive Affinity Groups = GOLD AGs that have not submitted report last year. GOLD AG Current GOLD Members France 863 Turkey 603 - Dormant Affinity Groups = GOLD AGs that have not submitted report in last two years. GOLD AG Current GOLD Members Denmark 289 Saudi Arabia, EAST 100 Russia 74 Lebanon 61 Saudi Arabia, WEST 50 gold.ieeer8.org

So, what do we really do (Best Practices)??? GOLD Affinity Groups (AGs) maintenance Recognition of outstanding volunteers and Affinity Groups Increase the visibility and awareness of IEEE among young professionals gold.ieeer8.org

GOLD AGs maintenance Initialisation of new Affinity Groups Revitalisation of dormant groups, 7 groups are dormant and inactive Recognition and motivation of young members to establish new AGs – still 20 Sections without GOLD AG Assistance and cooperation with existing 36 AGs Regular teleconference meetings with GOLD Chairs gold.ieeer8.org

R8 GOLD Operation Guide New addition in GOLD Resources Region 8 GOLD Operation Guide has been compiled for new Affinity Groups and new officers to understand GOLD functionality in concise and quick way. Available online gold.ieeer8.org

2012 Affinity Group Reports Successes STEP events Career Fairs Cooperation with Student Branches Increased number of members Social media Problems Lack of motivated volunteers Low attendance to organized events Unknowledge of IEEE in industry Sponsorship gold.ieeer8.org

Membership Development data support Supply GOLD Chairs with: Membership Development data, Statistics, Idea of automatic reporting system gold.ieeer8.org

Meetings with GOLD Chairs Started in 2011: 2 meetings In 2012: 4 meetings 10-13 participants every time Successful, a lot of positive feedback from GOLD chairs gold.ieeer8.org

Meetings with GOLD Chairs Participation over 2011-2013 Interest is growing! People are coming back! gold.ieeer8.org

So, what do we really do (Best Practices)??? GOLD Affinity Groups (AGs) maintenance Recognition of outstanding volunteers and Affinity Groups Increase the visibility and awareness of IEEE among young professionals gold.ieeer8.org

Recognition of outstanding volunteers and affinity groups Annual Region 8 Outstanding GOLD Affinity Group Award for outstanding GOLD AG Nominations and support for MGA GOLD Hall of Fame Award A new initiative to establish Region 8 GOLD Exceptional Volunteer Award to recognize the remarkable work done by GOLD volunteers gold.ieeer8.org

So, what do we really do (Best Practices)??? GOLD Affinity Groups (AGs) maintenance Recognition of outstanding volunteers and Affinity Groups Increase the visibility and awareness of IEEE among young professionals gold.ieeer8.org

Increase the visibility and awareness of IEEE among young professionals: Maintenance of Region 8 GOLD website Activities in social media – Facebook(+15,3%), LinkedIn(+14,7%), Twitter Regular input in GOLD Rush and R8 Newsletter Remarkable involvement in Student Branch Congresses: ISBC13, CEuSBC13, MESBC13 Design and manufacturing of promotional materials gold.ieeer8.org

IEEE R8 GOLD Webpage Updated on regular basis Source of information for GOLD Chairs and GOLD members Resources available The most recent contact information gold.ieeer8.org

GOLD Members Engagement on Social Media As active as possible: - news - activities - events - social happenings - etc…. gold.ieeer8.org

Involvement in small SBCs Goal: Increasing visibility of the GOLD community by promoting it among student members gold.ieeer8.org

Involvement in small SBCs Recent participation in the ISBC Porto 2013 During 2013 we will be as well in: CEuSBC Opole MESBC Beirut HSBC Cyprus UKRISBC And in 2014 more! gold.ieeer8.org

Visibility and advertisement We have created GOLD advertisement material: GOLD material for SBCs and Section Chairs: stickers and flyers gold.ieeer8.org

Visibility and advertisement Posters – T-shirts gold.ieeer8.org

Issues of GOLD in Region 8 Diversity – one rule cannot be applied everywhere Numbers… GOLD is underrated (30% members!!!) gold.ieeer8.org

Region 8 GOLD Committee gold.ieeer8.org

Do not hesitate, contact us!!! gold.ieeer8.org r8gold@ieee.org www.facebook.org/r8gold @r8gold # IEEE R8 GOLD gold.ieeer8.org