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As we are becoming more global, we are evolving
our culturally sensitive approaches to the issues
at hand to better serve our Society and society at
large to ensure that our members will feel more
valued and become more engaged. In this endeavor, I would like to ask you to share your thoughts
on how GRSS, through its technology and practices, can better serve humanity. Specifically, we
should explore new technologies, contents, and
methods of content delivery to accelerate the pace
of our progress.
Prior to the Saturday strategic session, members of TAB also devoted a substantial amount
of time discussing a proposal to amend the IEEE
constitution. In January 2015, the IEEE Board of
Directors (BoD) appointed a group to address the
question of "What changes must we make now to
best position the IEEE for success in 2030, while
still supporting the needs of technologists between now and then?" The highest priority identified by the 2015 IEEE Senior Leadership Team was
to optimize our governance processes to enable
strategy [1]. The leadership team presented their
recommendation to the TAB during their February meeting.
The constitutional changes are to rearrange the
structure of the BoD, which is composed of 31
members including three presidents (past, current,
and future), one treasurer, one secretary, six leaders of major boards (i.e., Educational Activities,
IEEE-USA, Member and Geographic Activities,
Publications, Standards, and Technical Activities),
ten divisional delegates and directors, and ten
regional delegates and directors. The idea behind
the proposed constitutional change is to create
a nimble BoD structure that is amenable to generative and strategic discussions. In the proposed
structure, the BoD will consist of 13 members.
There is also a new body, the Enterprise Board
(EB), to work with the BoD and the assembly.
The ten Regional and ten Division directors are
included in the assembly. During the discussions
in both the February and June TAB meetings,
a majority of the IEEE Society presidents and a
number of IEEE past presidents spoke against the
proposed constitutional amendment. I encourage you to visit the website in [2] to read about the
proposed changes and the rationale for them. This
was critical as we approached 15 August 2016, the
date for distributing the annual election ballots,
which included finalized statements and rebuttals,
to all voting members.
All IEEE Members are eligible to vote, and the
deadline is 3 October 2016 at 12:00 p.m. EST. After hearing the discussions on both sides, I am not in favor of
the proposed amendment for the following reasons:



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