1. A Healthy PACE: Member and Humanitarian Service
IEEE Humanitarian Activities and YOU
Catherine B. Nelson
Region 6 Humanitarian Activities

2. 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
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3. 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

4. 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

5. 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
Jan 15th, Mar 15th, May 15th, July 15th, Sept 15th
Provide grants for humanitarian projects
Feb 15th, May 15th, Aug 15th
humanitarian_activities_committee.html
NOTE: NOT holding many Conferences, Meetings, Events

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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)

9. 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 Holly Schneider Brown
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10. 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
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11. 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.
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12. 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 !! or
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13. 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
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14. 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
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15. 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
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16. 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
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17. 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
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18. 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,
Join the organizing committee as staff-in-training for future years
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19. Get Involved Make a Difference
Volunteer
Get Involved Make a Difference
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