Greetings,
Thank you for registering for GHTC 2022.
This post includes crucial details about the conference for all attendees. An email with the same information was sent to all registered attendees as of 6-Sept.
Venue
The 12th IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE GHTC 2022) will take place from September 8 to 11, 2022 in person at Santa Clara University (SCU) in the John and Susan Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation (SCDI), Building (#402).
For details and interactive map see the Venue page.
IEEE GHTC 2022 will be held at Santa Clara University (SCU) in Santa Clara, CA, in the John and Susan Sobrato Discovery and Innovation Building (#402). See SCU Campus Map and building info page.
SCU is located at: 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA
Santa Clara University is located in the heart of Silicon Valley just 5 miles from the San Jose International Airport and about 35 miles south of the San Francisco International Airport. The campus is easily reachable from U.S. Highway 101, Interstate 880, and Interstate 280.
There are many hotels around SCU campus. Some of the hotels are within the walking distance from the campus.
The IEEE Consultants’ Network of Silicon Valley (CNSV) has organized a Workshop and two evening Special Sessions at the 2022 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference being held at Santa Clara University. In addition, CNSV is sponsoring the MOVE truck.
Note: These are free events, and open to the public, but pre-registration is required (with $10 refundable deposit) due to limited space. GHTC attendees must also register for these events.
(Every person who attends the Special Event will receive a refund of their $10 EventBrite Registration fee.)
MOVE Community Outreach, an IEEE-USA Initiative, is an emergency relief program committed to assisting victims of natural disasters with short-term communications, computer, and power solutions. Services include phone charging, internet & communications support, and lighting to disaster victims.
When not deployed for natural disasters, MOVE volunteers conduct community outreach and facilitate learning opportunities for students and the general public in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).
There are two MOVE trucks, one in North Carolina and one in Southern California. The 32-foot long West Coast vehicle will be parked at the Santa Clara University Campus September 9th and tours will be given after a Keynote presentation about the MOVE program by Tim Lee, IEEE Region 6 Director.
GHTC 2022 is pleased to announce the preliminary conference program.
The 12th IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE GHTC 2022) will take place in person at Santa Clara University (California) from September 8 to 11, 2022.
Registration is open – Early rates extended to August 12 August 26. See the GHTC 2022 Registration page for details on fees and options.
See the GHTC 2022 Program pages for details.
GHTC is a flagship international conference supporting achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), bringing together people working on the application of technology to addressing critical issues for the benefit of the resource-constrained and vulnerable populations in the world.
GHTC focuses of these sustainable goals:
See the GHTC 2022 Registration page for details on fees and options. Early Presenter registration extended July 10 July 25. Early Attendee registration ends August 12 August 26.
The IEEE Communication Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter (SCV), will support a limited number of GHTC 2022 registrations for IEEE ComSoc members. See the ComSoc Grant announcement for details and how to apply. Deadline July 6.
IEEE Communications Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter will provide a limited number of registration and travel grants for IEEE ComSoc members.
For complete details and application, see the ComSoc Registration Grant page.
Information on registering for GHTC 2022 see the Registration page.
The 12th IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE GHTC 2022) is a flagship international conference sharing practical technology-enabled solutions supporting achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) by addressing the needs of underserved communities in resource-constrained environments around the world. GHTC 2022 will be hosted at Santa Clara University (California) on September 8-11.
Stakeholders from the public, private, education and research, societal, funding and donor sectors are invited to submit Oral Presentation proposals, Short Papers (early-stage results) and Full Papers (mature results) that share Sustainable Development, ICT4D and Humanitarian Technology related insights, experiences, best practices and lessons learned from a research, policy, practitioner and/or community perspective. Papers should present analysis of initial or final research results or a case study. General project descriptions are not appropriate. Submissions will be assessed for quality, relevance, consideration of ethical issues, methodological vigor and potential or actual impact.
Submissions by community representatives, practitioners (governmental, for-profit and nonprofit), academics, private sector organizations and policy makers describing intervention design and implementation, field experiences and best practices, case studies, project monitoring and evaluation results, and original research are of particular interest. Paper submissions should include results that have not previously been published and have not been submitted to another conference or journal.
The GHTC 2021 Proceedings have been published in IEEE Xplore:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9612423/proceeding
Visit GHTC Proceedings Portal here.
Congratulations to the winners of the GHTC 2021 virtual Student Poster Competition held on Tuesday, Oct. 19. Awards were presented on Oct. 22 in the GHTC 2021 Closing Session.
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1st Place
Investigating Clay Pot Coolers for Food Storage in Developing Nations by Max Burns (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT D-Lab) |
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2nd Place
by A. Moodie, M. Senadeera & A. van der Winden (Queensland University of Technology ) |
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3rd Place – Tie
Monitoring Coastal Habitats Through Machine Learning by Kalib Perkins (DeVry University) by Imran Jahangir, Jay Perez, Rolando Reyes, Rohail Khan, Blien Mahari (University of Houston) |
