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Re: [802SEC] FW: CLARIFICATION Re: IEEE Message on Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Title: IEEE Master email

G’day John

 

I believe you are reading too much into the e-mail. My reading is that IEEE standards development continues, using online collaboration to replace in-person working groups while the coronavirus threat exists. It says nothing about after the coronavirus threat diminishes

 

Of course, the coronavirus threat could be relevant for 6-9 months, or even longer. So we will need to deal with that situation. We may also want to draw lessons from our experiences during this time, one of which might be that we don’t need to meet F2F so often in the future.

 

Andrew

 

From: ***** IEEE 802 Executive Committee List ***** <STDS-802-SEC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> On Behalf Of John D'Ambrosia
Sent: Wednesday, 18 March 2020 8:11 AM
To: STDS-802-SEC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
Subject: [802SEC] FW: CLARIFICATION Re: IEEE Message on Coronavirus (COVID-19)

 

Dear EC Participants

Forwarding the email below in case you did not receive it.

Please note the following –

We request that all members avoid conducting in-person IEEE activities in areas impacted by the coronavirus threat and instead maximize the use of our online and virtual alternatives. IEEE provides many tools to support our membership with virtual engagement, including our online collaboration space IEEE Collabratec.


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IEEE standards development also continues, using online collaboration to replace in-person working groups.

 

It looks like IEEE is shifting away from F2F meetings.


Working with David Law, we are requesting an agenda item for Friday’s meeting – “Contingency Planning for Potential Long Term Delay for F2F meetings”

If you have any thoughts to add to a list of issues we need to consider please forward.

 

Thanks

John D’Ambrosia

 

 

From: IEEE <ieee@deliver.ieee.org>
Date: March 16, 2020 at 8:27:02 PM EDT
To: jdambrosia@ieee.org
Subject: CLARIFICATION Re: IEEE Message on Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Reply-To: no-reply@deliver.ieee.org



 

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier today, you were sent a message from IEEE President Toshio Fukuda and IEEE Executive Director Stephen Welby that was incorrectly addressed. The critical information below regarding COVID-19 and IEEE remains unchanged. We sincerely apologize for this error, and the inconvenience to you.

IEEE Business and Data Related Services


Dear IEEE Member,

As you are aware, last week the World Health Organization officially declared the novel coronavirus COVID-19 a pandemic. This global health crisis is a unique challenge that has impacted many members of the IEEE family. We would like to express our concern and support for all the members of the IEEE community, our staff, our families and all others affected by this outbreak.

Governments around the world are now issuing restrictions on travel, gatherings, and meetings in an effort to limit and slow the spread of the virus. The health and safety of the IEEE community is our first priority and IEEE is supporting these efforts.

We request that all members avoid conducting in-person IEEE activities in areas impacted by the coronavirus threat and instead maximize the use of our online and virtual alternatives. IEEE provides many tools to support our membership with virtual engagement, including our online collaboration space IEEE Collabratec.

Following the advice of local authorities, most upcoming IEEE conferences and meetings have already been postponed or replaced with virtual meetings.

IEEE publications continue to accept submissions and publish impactful cutting-edge research. Our online publications remain available to researchers and students around the world.

IEEE standards development also continues, using online collaboration to replace in-person working groups.

IEEE educational activities continue to offer online instruction and IEEE’s pre-university educational resources may be of assistance to families of students whose classroom activities have been disrupted.

All IEEE operations are continuing. At many of our global offices, IEEE staff will support IEEE’s mission while teleworking from their homes to minimize risk. As of this time, on the advice of local authorities, IEEE offices in China and India remain open.

We know that many of you are directly and indirectly engaged in the fight against this disease: supporting biomedical research and applications, supporting data analysis and modeling, maintaining critical communications and power infrastructure, and caring for each other. We are grateful for your work.

We extend our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all of our IEEE members for your understanding. These are difficult times, but we will get through them by working together. Thank you for your support of our shared mission to advance technology for humanity.

Please stay safe and well.

Toshio Fukuda, 2020 IEEE President and CEO

Stephen Welby, IEEE Executive Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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