IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine - Q1 2020 - 4

President's
Message
Amara Amara
President, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2020-2021))

would like first, to pay tribute to the presidents
who preceded me and who made our society a
dynamic one, among the most agile and have established remarkable financial health that enables us
to support our chapters and our members through
many initiatives.
It is with great pride that I begin my term as President
of our Society. I am aware of the heavy responsibility I
will have, and I am sure that I can count on a collaborative spirit with all of the colleagues from the ExCom and
the BoG as well as the active support of our members.
I have just finished my term as President Elect during
which I engaged myself and my colleagues from the Executive Committee, the BoG and the Long-Term Strategy
Committee in the elaboration of a strategic plan 2020-
2024. During this development process, we revised our
mission and our vision, aligned with the United Nations
priorities also known as the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs). Our society has a broad technical and scientific spectrum enabling it to cover most of these SDGs.
In addition to the revision of the mission and the
vision, we have also defined a set of values: scientific
excellence, inclusion and participation and service to
humanity to name only a few.
This reflection also led us to define both global and
technical strategic areas.
Concerning the global strategic areas, the service
to our members is the main priority. Going beyond our
borders will allow us to reach out to other categories
of populations that are little or not at all represented
and finally focusing on technical excellence and inspiration will establish the leadership of our Society in new
emerging areas of circuits and systems.
Regarding the technical strategic areas, we have classified them into three complementary categories:
1. New paradigms governing the engineering of Circuits and Systems encompassing interfacing, computation, and connectivity
2. Applications of Circuits and Systems including
food and agriculture, healthcare and livelihood,

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human-centric technology, mobility, and smart
cities and sustainable energy
3. The fundamental theory supporting emerging technologies
An in-depth analysis of the SWOT and the TOWS allowed us to define three strategic initiatives for each
division (technical activities, publications, conferences,
and regional activities and membership) which will constitute the frameworks of the annual operational plans
of each division, details will be published on our website
very soon.
To facilitate the achievement of our strategic plan we
will rely on 3 main levers.
1. Development of proximity with our members by
meeting them at their place, by directly discussing with them their challenges and expectations
2. Digital communication plan with an increased
presence in social networks
3. Outreach and growth of our activities in geographic areas such as Africa and Southeast Asia
Therefore we are going to launch several initiatives
in January:
■ Africa initiative
■ Regional CASS Days following the successful Europe CASS Day
■ Entrepreneurship initiative in connection with the
SDGs
■ Global education by reorganizing this activity
within a Global Education Institute including the
DLP and iDLP (industry DLP) programs
■ Seasonal Schools, Microlearning, e-books etc.
The content generated will be made available to our
members free of charge in our resource center.
In addition, this body could be endowed with more
prerogatives and governance which will be discussed
within the ExCom and the BoG during this year.
To conclude, I would like to thank members of the
ExCom and the BoG who finished their terms and
welcome the new members. I count on the commitment of all the members of the ExCom, the BoG, the
technical activities committees and all the Chapter
officers to help in the implementation of our strategic plan.
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