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Defining the Society's focus areas was a pivotal
exercise in its transformation and in gaining the
needed momentous support. Its field of interest
encompasses hardware, software, and firmware
technologies, seemingly overlapping those of the
other 38 IEEE Societies. However, the distinctive
difference between CTSoc and these other societies
is that CTSoc brings technologies to the mass
consumer market, and advancement of technologies
is opening the scope more for joint disciplines.
Describing a society's FoI, as with the
name change, is a stepped process in IEEE to
ensure clear society accountabilities, and CTSoc
needed to reflect its purpose with a timeless FoI;
our Society could not keep changing the FoI as
industry and research continuously and rapidly
change consumer technologies.
Thus, CTSoc sent its Field of Interest description
on 21 September 2020 to all IEEE Society/Council
Presidents for comments by 12 October 2020.
On 20 November 2020, the motion to accept CTSoc
Field of Interest statement was presented at the
IEEE Society/Council Presidents' Forum and was
voted at the IEEE Technical Activities Board meeting
that day. The vote passed and CTSoc new Field
of Interest became: " The field of interest of the
Consumer Technology Society is the interdisciplinary
technologies, applications, manufacturing,
and standards for products, services, systems,
and architectures for consumers. "
CTSOC MISSION STATEMENT
After lengthy consultations, discussions with
the BoG, the Executives, and the membership,
and then voting by the BoG, we adopted the new
mission statement: " We innovate and bring consumer
technologies to life. "
CTSoc is the leading forum for the global
technical exchange of engineering and scientific
information on advancements in consumer technologies
for the betterment of humanity, and for
the professional development of its members.
The value it adds is reflected in its Conferences,
Publications, Technical and Educational Activities,
Industry Activities and Standards.
CTSOC VISION STATEMENT
Similarly after lengthy consultations, discussions,
and voting, we adopted the new vision
statement: " The IEEE Consumer Technology Society
(CTSoc) as a global leader inspires research,
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development, and deployment of cutting-edge technologies
for consumer products for the advancement
and benefit ofhumanity. "
NEW WEBSITE
A nice and professional website that is intuitive
to navigate and has current information will
make it the go-to place for useful resources on
everything about your Society. In September
2020, a new CTSoc website was designed and
published https://ctsoc.ieee.org suitable for stationary
and mobile platforms and intended to
serve the members, profession, industry, academia,
and general public.
CTSOC GOVERNING DOCUMENTS
The governing documents of the Society had
not been updated since 2013 for the Constitution,
since 2015 for the Bylaws, and since 2014 for the
operations (policies and procedures) manual. Due
to the Society's restructuring and reorganization,
and establishment of new Standing Boards and
Committees to increase the Society's activities, the
Society governing documents had to be updated to
reflect all these reformations. It was imperative that
we ensured the process of updating the governing
documents was on track with the effective date of
the name change. We completed and received
CTSoc BoG approval for the new CTSoc governing
documents near the same time: CTSoc Constitution,
CTSoc Bylaws, CTSoc BoG, and CTSoc OperationsManual
(Policies and Procedures, P&Ps).
A summary of the improved CTSoc structure
and offerings follows that will hopefully also
make you a proud member!
CTSOC TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
Though CTSoc is a technical society, it had
no technical oversight body. We needed to
increase professional development activities to
aid members in sustaining their professional
career. Thus, another major first time foundational
establishment for our Society were 15 new
technical committees (TC) that provide support
to conferences, publications, technical, and educational
activities. These committees are quickly
staying current and adapting to the dynamic
changes in industry and academia. Our committees
as of this writing are: Application-Specific
CE for Smart Cities (SMC); Audio/Video Systems
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