Addressing world problems in a tangible manner

Our committee is composed of volunteers from across Canada, who want to respond to the growing desire from our members to address world problems in a tangible manner. We will support IEEE members in Canada that are participating in Humanitarian activities, and are working on building relationships with organizations that will enable us fulfil IEEE’s strategic vision. Our goal is to increase the proficiency of Canadian IEEE sections in taking on humanitarian initiatives through the active particiption of their members.

We will support humanitarian initiatives, new ventures and collaborations in which Canadian IEEE members are involved; for example: by identifying Canadian humanitarian initiatives already underway, by leveraging external (corporate, community, association) relationships for humanitarian solution partnerships, or by nurturing initiatives that our members raise like relief efforts in disasters like the December ’04 tsunami in southeastern Asia or the January ’10 earthquake in Haiti. Currently, we are actively participating in the IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge (IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge) and we have launched a student design competition.

You can download this document for more information about our group.

Our Mission

To provide IEEE members the means to participate in Humanitarian Initiatives that may include:

1. Aiding in relief assistance during natural disasters (i.e., ice storms, earthquake, floods, etc.),
2. Aiding in socio‐economic development abroad (i.e., technical and management skills, sustainable development)
3. Running awareness programs in our communities about uses of technologies for humanitarian purposes (i.e., energy generation and conservation, joint events with humanitarian organizations)

Our Virtual Community

To learn more about our current activities we invite you to join our Canadian HIC virtual community. We are always looking for volunteers and new initiatives to work on!

We encourage you to submit your request to join our virtual community:

1. Create a new account in the IEEE virtual community web site.
2. You will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm you e-mail address.
3. Login to your new virtual community space and accept the terms of service by clicking the Done button at the bottom of the welcome page.
4. Visit the Groups tab and search for our virtual community (use HIC as a search word).
5. Submit a request to join our group.

Note that if you are a member of the IEEE you should already have access to the IEEE Virtual community web site using you IEEE Web login credentials.