Strengthening Technical Activities Dr. Jacek Zurada 2013 TAB Chair Elect ITS BOG Meeting

1. Strengthening Technical Activities Dr. Jacek Zurada 2013 TAB Chair Elect ITS BOG Meeting Istanbul, July 7, 2013

2. IEEE Governance Organization MEMBERS Assembly Board of Directors PSPB EducationalActivities Board Technical Activities Board Member & Geo Activities Board Standards Assoc. Board TechCmtee Regions & Sections Societies & Tech. Councils IEEE-USA Board

3. Technical Activities in IEEE • TAB-a conglomerate of 38 Societies and 7 Councils that promotes growth of technology, profession in the FOI of IEEE and serves the humanity • Long list of successes, both recent and present • Many of our journals top the ranking lists • Conferences are at its peak of popularity • Increasing membership • Societies prosper • Vibrant and growing chapters • Challenges • From the private sector • Digitization and globalization have deeply changed the landscape…, more to come

4. Key Thrusts of TAB Among Long Term Objectives 4 • Appeal for Industrial Practitioners • Future (Technology) Directions • Building Technical Communities • All three intertwined…. • Globalization • Leveraging education in TA 9/4/2014

5. PUBS:Digitization and Globalization have created new conditions • Classic, journal-centric model disappearing • Journals subscriptions replaced either with package subscriptions by institutions, or by metered downloads by individuals • Most read just PDF/HTML downloads • New Virtual Journals appear • Journals quality metrics change (IF to EFS to AIS to Altmetrics) • Open Access is with us to stay • Challenges ahead (income distribution algorithm)

6. Open Access Launch in 2012/2013

7. Open Access: IEEE success story 7 • $1st million income realized • Yet issues persist • Readers demand access • Authors want visibility • Pressures from ‘budget’ OA journals • Expectations from the legislature • Editing, reviewing, curating the e-content is not a free lunch • OA business model still unstable 9/4/2014

8. Global Growth in TA • IEEE faces a challenge of delivering content and services to the global body of engineers and researchers when • the rapid growth is outside Regions 1-7 • its most customers are also there • How to better serveand embrace the global community?

9. Region 7: Canada Region 8: Europe, Africa, Middle East Region 9: Latin America Region 10: Asia & Pacific (from GP AdHoc 2012) Report) Membership changing All members (416,000) Student Members (108,000) ~50% our All Members are in R7-10 ~50% our Student Members are in Asia & Pacific or Latin America

10. Region 7: Canada Region 8: Europe, Africa, Middle East Region 9: Latin America Region 10: Asia & Pacific (from GP AdHoc 2012 Report) Global variation on activity: IEEE Publication Activity

11. Sub-regional Technical Activities Workshops • Entry barriers exist in some countries to become a qualified volunteer/leader • Higher barriers for some nations due to the rapid growth from agrarian to industrialized societies • Sub-regional TA Volunteers workshops free for Authors, Reviewers, Associate Editors, Technical/Program Chairs of Conferences are planned

12. Educational Activities in TA • Our members change jobs 7 times in their professional careers, so…. • How TA respond to S/C members’ and customers’ educational needs wrt. content delivery and level of service? • How to generate, curate, and offer a wide variety of S/C educational products to S/C members and customers? • Potential new business scenarios (how to progress), possibly linking with EAB

13. On-going work on Education in TA • Create an inventory of Society and Council offerings • Identify ways to align TA and EAB education efforts to mutually leverage and collaborate on educational activities • See if a platform (one or more) or a new hardware/software infrastructure is needed

14. Thank you for your attention Questions?