My
priorities focus on providing
more value to IEEE members. This can be done do by:
- Offer opportunities for professional and personal growth - Allow members to hone communication and leadership skills - Help members learn how to interact in a global technical community. - Allow members to understand what skills a professional requires
– Increasing IEEE relevance to non-US members
underserved and vital parts of our membership and our membership growth: – Industrial employees/practitioners – Young Professionals – Author/Researchers – Tech Professionals in emerging economies – The IEEE must know what is important to them, so it can provide it |
Some details on how we
can do this
To provide enhanced networking and collaboration opportunities will require a strong and flexible set of networking and collaboration tools – IEEE Collabratec ™ is now in pilot – Based on Social Media, targeted at the professional audience - an opportunity to better serve Young Professionals - who find Social Media a natural way to communicate – With flexibility that will increase - to support the operation of communities for all IEEE operating units – including Sections, Chapters, Societies, Councils, emerging technology communities, Standards working groups, consultant networkss - and many others. - to support the operation of IEEE-only or open communities - to support the operation of IEEE volunteer communities – Components to support collaborative research and authoring – An opportunity to reinvent publications – article + discussion + supplements - with the discussion potentially in a local language - Its development is only the beginning; we must encourage, adapt, and refine its use to support our community needs in all their variety To increase our global relevance, the IEEE should: – Have more high-visibility projects, such as Smart Cities or Humanitarian projects , and in more Regions – Strengthen ties to industry – to keep our technology areas relevant – Quickly recognize and embrace emerging technology areas - which are centers of tomorrow's job growth – Strengthen offerings to non-academic members – including industrial employees, consultants, entrepreneurs – Develop a global public policy voice on matters of common interest, which would include: - STEM education, Internet neutrality, patent policy, smart utilization of the world's scarce natural resources (including air, water, energy and human resources) |
The opinions expressed on this web site are the opinions of Fred Mintzer - and not necessarily the opinions of the IEEE