IEEE Communications Society LATIN AMERICA REGION José David Cely Director.

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1 IEEE Communications Society LATIN AMERICA REGION José David Cely Director

2 Membership Statistics LA 2011 2011 Number of Assets Total Memberships Month LFFLSSMLMMAMGSMStMAF February 1210781168750150273331295 June 2119710101898256781472320 July 211102101090109286859472516 August 212105121343142213786462661 Important Senior Membership growth and Members Very low number of Fellows

3 DLT Arun Somani Monitoring the US Power Grid Using Wireless Sensor Networks LA DLT #1 - Region 9/Ecuador/Peru/Somani/1111 Ecuador Chapter - Gabriel Astudillo - gastudillo@gmail.com Peru Chapter - Luis Montes Bazalar - lmontes@pucp.edu.pe

4 Chapter Questionaires Just five Chapters sent the Questionaires – Chile – Ecuador – Morelos – Argentina – Colombia Low level feedback and activity was reported It is necesary to motivate more participation of chapters and invite them to provide more information about their activities ( pictures, statistics, etc)

5 RCCC 2011 Cancún

6 LA RCCC ATTENDEES Jorge Calvo - Costa Rica Gabriel Astudillo – Ecuador Luis Monte Bazalar – Peru Raul Gomez Escamilla – Mexico Rodrigo E. Garcia Osorio -Guadalajara Pedro Aguilero - Chile Jorge Hedderwick – Argentina Thomas Hobbins – Uruguay Carlos Eduardo Velasquez-V. – Colombia Ignacio Z. Huerta – Puebla Armando Rivera - Guatemala César Vargas Rosales – Monterrey Carlos Andrés Lozano Garzón - DLT Coord Directors Shri Goyal -MPD Director Stan Moyer - Marketing & Industry Relations Dir. Roberto Saracco -Sister & Related Societies Dir. Vijay Bhargava - President-Elect Roberto de Marca-Business Development Chair/Past President - Khaled B. Letaief – VP Conferences Jose David Cely -LA Director Staff Bruce Worthman – Dir Conferences, Finance & Administration Carole Swaim – Executive &Volunteer Services Carol Cronin John Pape – Director Marketing/ WCET Joel Basco – j.basco@comsoc.org

7 RCCC Discussion items in Feedback and follow up session List of potential DL’s and Senior members candidates Responding to Open call for leadership positions Student programs – support needed Collaboration among Chapters, joint events MDSG grant for new initiatives Young members participation and GOLD portal Virtual Meetings- support from staff Relations with Sections Request for RCCC every two years Potential Industry day- 2012

8 LA Director (current actions) Organizing DLT for Brazil, Mexico and Colombia Reactivation of South Brazil Chapter Direct contact with R9 Section Chairs and GOLD Volunteers in IEEE Sections Congress. San Francisco Interaction with NA Region Meeting LA Awards ComSoc open call. Recruiting GOLD volunteers from LA Planning Virtual Meeting with chapter chairs early october. Planning 2011 LatinCom participation, late october