Humanitarian

The MOVE Community Outreach, an IEEE-USA Initiative, 5th anniversary is this month. For information on MOVE, see https://move.ieeeusa.org/. Want to know more about MOVE disaster relief effort?  Come join us for our 5th anniversary update and hear about the activities we have accomplished in the past 5 years.  Future plans [...]

The IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC)/IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) have announced the first funding opportunity of 2021! The Call for Proposals is being offered to support IEEE member grassroots humanitarian technology and sustainable development projects that utilize technology to address the COVID-19 situation.  Ready to apply? [...]

Due to numerous requests from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made a FINAL deadline extension to June 15 midnight PT.  No further extension. Note there are three options for each Track: Oral-only, Short Papers and regular. Oral – 1 to 2 pages PDF extended abstract, Short – [...]

Candidates have been selected for the 2020 IEEE Elections. The IEEE Elections is where all R6 members vote for: IEEE President-elect, IEEE-USA President-elect and Region 6 Director-elect. Plus, if you are in one or more IEEE Technical Societies, you vote for the VP Technical Activities and Division Directors-elect. IEEE President-elect [...]

Students’ Engineering Projects for Community Service During the Second Annual EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) Expo, held on March 4, 2020 at Santa Clara University, students from San Jose State University and Santa Clara University showcased their engineering projects created to solve environmental and social problems in Silicon Valley [...]

  The submission deadline for papers and sessions for GHTC 2020 has been extended to May 1. See the GHTC 2020 CFP page for details. NOTE: we are accepting proposals for Special Sessions (up to 8 pages) Reviews: all submissions received by the first deadline of 31-March will be assigned [...]

Seattle – January 31, 2020 – Today the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Committee announced the 2020 Call for Papers. The tenth anniversary of GHTC will take place in Seattle, Washington, USA, October 29 – November 1, 2020. See attached PDF flyer. Organized by IEEE, the world’s largest technical [...]

Deadline Extended to October 8 The IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) is the flagship IEEE forum for presenting and discussing humanitarian technology innovation and deployment. IEEE GHTC 2019 invites undergraduate students to submit abstracts for the Student Poster Competition.  Download flyer (PDF) Students are invited to send in ideas [...]