Carlos Rueda Artunduaga, SMIEEE GOLD Latin America Carlos Rueda Artunduaga, SMIEEE GOLD Region 9 artunduaga@ieee.org
Carlos in a Nutshell Contact details of Region 9 GOLD Chair: Carlos Rueda Artunduaga Computer Systems Engineer Master in Informatics Project Management Diploma in Virtual Education Colombia Section Chair 2009 – 2010 Andean Council Chair 2010 – 2012 GOLD Coordinator R9 2012 – 2013 artunduaga@ieee.org http://facebook.com/artunduagas Skype: artunduagas Gtalk: artunduaga@gmail.com 1/17/2019
Region 9 in a Map I live here in Bogota, Colombia 1/17/2019
Region 9 in a Nutshell 28 GOLD AGs Only 7 Sections don’t have a GOLD AG But 4 of that 7 Sections have now GOLD Coordinators and they are working to create GOLD AGs 1/17/2019
Region 9 in a Nutshell Only 4 of our Sections speaks Portuguese (Sul Brasil, Bahia, Centro Norte Brasil, Rio de Janeiro) Only 1 of our Sections speaks English (Trinidad and Tobago) 1/17/2019
Region 9 in a Nutshell Main Challenges Some Sections don’t support GOLD Activities 3 Sections don’t have a GOLD Coordinator To create new focus groups in Languages: Spanish – English (Spanglish group) Português – Español (Portunhol) Main Goals To have one GOLD AG in each Section (we need 7 new) Increase GOLD membership and retention within Latin America STEP activities in all Sections 1/17/2019
Region 9 in a Nutshell Resources Requested (faster solutions) “Just in Time” approval for STEP funds requests “Just in Time” transfer of STEP funds to Sections “Just in Time” delivery of STEP Kits Update the Web Page with Region 9 Coordinators Best Practices GOLD Coordinators Meeting, joint with Region 9 Executive Committee Meeting South American and Central American GOLD Meetings, each year Permanent contact with GOLD AGs and GOLD Members (E-mail, Facebook, Twitter, Chat, etc…) 1/17/2019
R9 GOLD Coordinators 2012 Mexico City, Mexico
R9 GOLD Leaders 2013 San Salvador City, El Salvador
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