Coordinator: Stefano Zanero (Italy)
General Aims:
- Establish closer relationships with some IEEE Business Units, for example IEEE Sales and Marketing (International Sales Team), as well as IEEE Publications Service and Products Board (PSPB).
- Links to wider IEEE: R8_TA_relations_higher_committees_v1
- Fostering strong relationships, and synergistically couple IEEE Region 8 to mentioned IEEE business or organizational units.
- Deliver a greater level of IEEE access such as via IEEE products: IEEE/IET electronic library (IEL), IEEE eLearning library, etc
- Develop closer relations between our own journals, perhaps high-quality journals of national societies, where IEEE has a formal relationship, etc to the wider IEEE, perhaps even via electronic and mobile dispensation via IEEE Xplore.
Action plan:
- Getting in touch and creating a reference map of IEEE Sales and Marketing + IEEE Publications Service and Products Board (PSPB) staff members
- Getting in touch with Section chairs following up to R8 meeting in London. The process can work also the other way round so if you are a R8 volunteer with a need that may fall in my goals please get in touch via e-mail!
- Get in touch with national associations of chartered engineers to see if there is a possibility to offer them access to IEEE/IET electronic library (IEL) or IEEE eLearning library
- Try to develop better (and cheaper) ways to make the IEEE eLearning library available to members and professionals in developing economies of our region (by talking with the relevant Section chairs).
- Collect names of highly respected journals of national societies, where IEEE has a formal relationship, to begin to explore interest for diffusion within the wider IEEE, perhaps even via electronic and mobile dispensation via IEEE Xplore.