1. 2nd IEEE Tunisia section ExCom meeting
Habib M. Kammoun
IEEE Tunisia Section chair
11/15/2019

2. Participants (1/3) Officers Habib M. Kammoun, chair
Azza Ouled Zaid, vice chair
Messaoud Amairi, Secretary
Nizar Rokbani, Treasurer
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3. Participants (2/3) Elected Members (chapters/Affinity groups)
Chafaa Hamrouni (AESS)
Noureddine Boulejfen (MTTS)
Absent (APS)
Vacant (OES)
Absent (CAS)
Ilhem Slama (PES)
Tarek Bejaoui (ComSoc)
Nizar Rokbani (RAS)
Nesrine Baklouti (CIS)
Chokri Ben Amar (SPS)
Raja Fdhila (Computer)
Absent (SSCS)
Vacant (CEDA)
Yassine Aribi (SMCS)
Adel M. Alimi (Education)
Absent (VTS)
Mounir Ben Ayed (EMBS)
Wael Ouarda (YP)
Hela Lajmi (IAS)
Abir Chermiti (WIE)
Mounir Ben Aissa (ITSS)
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4. Participants (3/3) Appointed Members
Nominations and Appointments Committee
Ilhem Kallel (Chapter Coordinator)
Adel M. Alimi (Conference Coordinator)
Membership Development Coordinator
Student Activities Coordinator
Student Representatives
Professional Activities Coordinator
Educational Activities Coordinator
Rami Messaoud (Industry Ambassador)
Tarek Bejaoui & Amine Zribi & Sana Khalfa (Awards & Recognition Committee)
Khouloud Filali (Newsletter Editor)
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5. Agenda
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6. Saturday Morning Time Min Type Item Presenter 09:30 05 Procedural
Call to order and Introduction of Participants
H. Kammoun
09:35
Approval of the agenda and the past ExCom minutes
M. Amairi
09:40 75
Discussion
Tunisia section
Overview
Membership Development
Past & Next Activities
Awards
N&A committee
Legal Issues
National Society Agreement
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7. Saturday Morning Time Min Type Item Presenter 10:55 15 Discussion
Treasurers’ report
N. Rokbani
11:10 80
Chapters Activities
15” Coordinator
5” per Chapter: AESS, ComSoc, CIS, Computer, Education, EMBS, IAS, ITSS, MTTS, PES, RAS, SMCS, SPS
I. Kallel
Chapters’ chairs/representatives
12:30 90
Lunch
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8. Saturday Afternoon Time Min Type Item Presenter 14:00 10 Discussion
Young Professionals affinity group
W. Ouarda
14:10
Women In Engineering affinity group
A. Chermiti
14:20 30
vTools Training
H. Kammoun
14:50 70
- Conferences Activities
How to organize an IEEE Conference
IEEE Sponsorships
A. Alimi
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9. Saturday Afternoon Time Min Type Item Presenter 16:00 15 Discussion
Award & Recognitions activities
T. Bejaoui
16:15
Industry Activities
R. Messaoud
16:30
Newsletter
K. Filali
16:45
Remarks and Closing Session
H. Kammoun
17:00 2
Group Photo
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10. IEEE Tunisia Section
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11. Vision
Ensure that Tunisia section is an effectively organized, dynamic and influential entity, with IEEE benefits equally available to all members
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12. Mission
To serve the needs of the members of the Institute, the profession and society at large, by enhancing and supporting the IEEE’s Organizational Units and their activities within Tunisia section
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13. GOALS Increase member engagement
Improve relationships with and among members
Increase operational efficient and effectiveness, within the section and its interfaces
Enhance collaboration – serve as the local face of IEEE to community
Increase membership and retention rate
Enhance the membership-related information available to the member and the geographic units
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14. Getting closer to Industry;
Region 8 Priorities
Getting closer to Industry;
Giving more values for IEEE Students and Young Professionals members;
Ensuring Section Vitality.
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15. IEEE MGA Operational Manual
ties_communities/geo_acti vities/operations_manual/i ndex.html
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16. IEEE Sub Units in Tunisia
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17. IEEE Sub-units in Tunisia (1/2)
19 Technical chapters
2 Affinity groups
Young Professionals (YP)
Women In Engineering (WIE)
17 Student branches
ENIT, ENIS, ENSI, SupCom, ENISo, ENICar, INSAT, ENIG, FST, ENIB, ENSIT, ENIM, ISECS, ULT, ISSATSo, ENSTAB, ISET Djerba
7 WIE student affinity group
ENIS, ENIT, ENIG, ISSATSo, ENIB, ENI Carthage, ENIM

18. IEEE Sub-units in Tunisia (2/2)
31 Technical student chapters
ENIS (AESS, CS, SMCS, CEDA, PES, ES, SPS, RAS, IAS, CIS, EMB)
ENIG (CSS, RAS, IAS)
ENI Carthage (RAS, IAS, CS, PES, AESS)
ENIM (IAS, PES)
INSAT (RAS, IAS, CS)
ISSAT Sousse (IAS, PES, SPS, RAS, CS)
ULT (EMB, IA)

19. Communicate with your units members! enotice.vtools.ieee.org
For successful meeting
Communicate with your units members! enotice.vtools.ieee.org
The section meeting is our place to communicate face to face
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20. Membership Statistics
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21. Membership Statistics
994 members (stats. on 7 April 2016)
708 Students
165 Graduate students
93 Members
1 Affiliate members
27 Senior members
0 Fellow members
0 Life Member
Membership by grades / profiles
Over a half of the members are students  lack of higher grade, loyal members

22. Membership Growth

23. Membership Retention

24. Statistics
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25. Top 5 cities
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26. Past Main Activities
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27. October 2015: IEEE Day
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28. November 2015: Apps for Democracy Challenge
Sponsored by the IEEE eGov – Computer Society
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29. December 2015: Tunisian Students & Young Professionals congress
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30. 3rd TSYP 2015 Challenge result:
4th TSYP 2016 will be organized by ULT Student branch

31. January 2016: Towards Tunisian Smart cities
Think tank
smartcities.ieee.tn
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32. February 2016: Tunisian Engineering Day
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33. March 2016: 1st Tunisian Smart Cities workshop
In conjunction with droidcon.tn
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34. March 2016: Spring School on Cloud Computing, IoT & Big Data
jia.ieee.tn
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35. April 2016: Tunisian Forum for Industry-Academia Partnership
tfiap.ieee.tn
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36. Next Main Activities
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37. R8 SYP 2016 www.syp-regensburg.de
17-21 August 2016 in Regensburg, Germany
R8 will offer one registration for each active SB
Section will offer travel grants to SB chairs/representatives
Travel grant up to ………… per SB
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38. Tunisian Engineering Day
To be organized by all IEEE student branches in a congress center
To be discussed…
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39. 2nd IEEE DEPRI
2nd Days of Exchanges and Partnerships for Research and Innovation
Invitation to laboratories and research units/centers directors, main companies with R&D departments, Ministries
Awards dinner ceremony: best cites IEEE paper, best chapter, best student chapter, etc.
To be discussed …
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40. 4th Tunisian SYP congress
December 2016
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41. Awards & Grants
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42. IEEE Day Largest Gathering Photo $250
ENIT SB
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43. Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, USA
13 IEEE IAS members received travel grants to participate to the IAS annual meeting Oct. 2015
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44. Member-Get-a-Member (MGM) Program
Recruiters of the Month for
Recruiter name
Number of new recruited members
May
Akram Marzouki 23
June
Asma Debiche 11
October
Haifa Hammas 24
Mouna Tayehi 12
November
December
Mohamed Samy Garali
137
Meher Bnouni 16
Ayoub Salha
Khalil Ben Sassi
Nabilla Fessi 10
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45. Recuirment silver award
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46. Received funds $$$ http://ieee.tn/activities/awards-and-grants/
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47. 2015 R8 Outstanding Large Section Award

48. MGA Outstanding Section Award Deadline: 15 May 2016 Help!!!
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49. Nominations & Appointments Committee
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50. N&A Committee 2015 2016-2017 [to be confirmed] Mourad Loulou (chair)
Olfa Jemai
Farhat Fnaiech
[to be confirmed]
Mourad Loulou ?!
11/15/2019

51. New: Vice Chair becoming Chair
MGA 9.4.F: A Section may define in its local operating procedures document if the Vice Chair shall automatically become the Chair at the conclusion of their term
Other officers should be elected taking into account that the Vice Chair will become the Chair after concluding his term
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52. Proposed election process dates
1 June 2016: Call for Nominations to [deadline: 15 July]
Chair
Chair Elect (will serve as section chair)
Secretary
Treasurer
1 August 2016: Communicate slate of selected candidates and start petition process [deadline: 31 Aug.]
15 September 2016: prepare ballot and announcement of election [voting deadline: 15 Oct. 2016]
20 October 2016: Announcement of election results 
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53. Legal Issues
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54. Legal status in Tunisia
IEEE staff contacted a local counsel to register a branch of IEEE in Tunisia
Arabic name: جمعية آي تربل إي بتونس
Follow the IEEE bylaws
Papers sent to government on 17 March 2016
Announcement will be submitted to the official gazette on 17 April 2016 for publication
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55. National Society Agreements
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56. Looking for agreements with
IEEE offers National Society Agreement NSA template:
Could offer 20% reduce to members of both organizations (national society & IEEE)
Proposed organizations:
Ordre des ingénieurs Tunisiens OIT
ALECSO
Others ?!
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57. Other agreements
Telecommunications company to offer free communications between IEEE members
Other proposals ?!
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58. Volunteers Tools
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59. Compliance Training
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60. IEEE Center for Leadership Excellence!
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61. IEEE vTools
vtools.ieee.org
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62. Questions? Comments?
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63. Thank you!
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