GHTC 2021 is pleased to announce the preliminary set of workshops.
See the Workshops page for details.
Frugal Innovation and the Design Thinking Process
By: Frugal Innovation Hub (SoE of Santa Clara University) and Latin America Frugal Innovation Network
October 19th, 2021 – 9AM to 12 PM (PST)
Application of IoT During Pre- and Post-COVID 19 Pandemic (A Humanitarian Services Workshop)
With: Shivakumar (Shiva) Mathapathi
October 19th, 2021 – 9AM to 12 PM (PST)
GHTC 2021 is please to announce the Preliminary list of Keynote Speakers.
See the Keynote Speakers page for details on each speaker.
Elizabeth M. Belding is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prof. Belding’s research focuses on mobile and wireless networking, including network performance analysis, and information and communication technologies for development (ICTD).
Octav Chipara is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Iowa. His research is interdisciplinary, focusing on using systems and machine learning techniques to mobile health problems. Over the last decade, he has used ecological momentary assessments delivered using mobile apps to better the interactions between hearing amplification techniques and the real-world environments in which they are used.
Deborah Estrin is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech where she holds The Robert V. Tishman Founder’s Chair, serves as the Associate Dean for Impact, and is an Affiliate Faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine. Estrin’s research activities include technologies for caregiving, immersive health, small data, participatory sensing, and Public Interest Technology.
Farid Farahmand is currently the Chair of the Engineering Science Department (Electrical Engineering) at Sonoma State University in California, U.S.A. He is also the director of Advanced Internet Technology in the Interests of Society Laboratory.
Anna Förster leads the Sustainable Communication Networks group at the University of Bremen. She obtained her MSc degree in computer science and aerospace engineering from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, in 2004 and her PhD degree in self-organising sensor networks from the University of Lugano, Switzerland, in 2009.
Aline McNaull works on energy, space, defense and research policy on behalf of IEEE-USA members and is the staff lead for IEEE-USA’s research and development policy committee, the committee on aerospace and transportation, as well as the energy policy committee.
Grayson Randall is an IEEE senior member and the IEEE MOVE Operations lead. Grayson is responsible for the IEEE MOVE truck and associated equipment that is deployed to disasters to support emergency communications.
Janapa Reddi is an Associate Professor in John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is a founding member of MLCommons, a non-profit organization focused on accelerating AI innovation, and serves on the MLCommons Board of Directors.
We would like to thank the authors who submitted papers by the initial deadline. These papers are under review.
To accommodate authors who require more time to write up their results, GHTC 2021 will have a late papers call deadline of July 2nd, with feedback provided in late July. Oral, Short and Full papers can be submitted, using the Late Papers tracks.
View the Late Papers CFP here.
Key Late Dates:
Deadline for submissions: July 12th (Firm), 2021
Notification after review: Late July
Download CFP (PDF)
GHTC 2021 will be held as a Virtual Conference due to the impact of COVID-19.
The 2021 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE GHTC 2021) 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.
Stakeholders from the public, private, education and research, societal, funding and donor sectors are invited to submit Oral Presentation proposals or Short Papers (early-stage results) as well as Full Papers (mature results), sharing Sustainable Development, ICT4D and Humanitarian Technology related insights, experiences, good practices and lessons learnt 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 should not have been submitted to another conference or journal.
Please note that all submissions will undergo a Plagiarism Check before being assigned for blind peer review by members of the IEEE GHTC 2021 International Technical Programme Committee (TPC), who are all experienced subject matter experts.
IEEE GHTC 2021 Thematic areas include (but are not limited to):
For complete details on topics and submission see the Call for Papers page.
As well as describing ethical and sustainability challenges and technological aspects, submissions are encouraged to consider socio-cultural, socio-economic, environmental and policy perspectives, and explain how Sustainable Development related good practices such as skills capacity building, community ownership, Co-design, Collaborative Open Innovation, and Theory of Change are applied.
Three types of submissions are invited for presentation at GHTC:
Full Papers: mature results or completed projects and should not exceed eight pages.
Short Papers: interim results, experiences and perspectives, and should be three to four pages in length including a short reference section.
Oral-Only: work-in-progress; projects at an early stage of implementation; option for community representatives, practitioners or policy makers who prefer not to write a paper. Oral-Only submissions should be described in one or two pages.
NOTE: we are accepting proposals for multi-stakeholder Special Sessions (up to 8 pages)
Accepted Full Papers, Short Papers and Oral-Only Presentations will be grouped thematically to facilitate focused discussion, community building and networking based on common interests.
Selected accepted Full Papers will be invited to submit a revised, extended version to an IEEE journal.
KEY DATES
| Full Paper, Short Paper and Oral-only submission for review deadline | |
| Special Sessions (e.g. demo, panel, discussion) deadline | June 15, 2021 |
| Notification of acceptance / revision requirements | July 12, 2021 (revised) |
| Late Full Paper, Short Paper and Oral-only submission for review deadline | |
| Late Submission Notification of acceptance / revision requirements | Late July 2021 |
| Submission of Final Full Paper/Short Paper and Oral-only Presentation | August 14, 2021 (revised) |
| Author Copyright forms deadline | same as Final deadline |
| Author early registration deadline | |
| Early registration deadline | September 20, 2021 |
| Recorded presentations due | September 30, 2021 |
IEEE GHTC 2021 is Sponsored by IEEE Region 6, IEEE Seattle Section and IEEE SSIT, with Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE-USA, IEEE PELS, and (expected) IEEE CTS, IEEE EMBS, IEEE MTT, IEEE PES, and IEEE Smart Village Initiative.
The GHTC 2020 Proceedings have been published in IEEE Xplore:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9342745/proceeding
Visit GHTC Proceedings Portal here.
The 10th IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC 2020) was held online on October 29- November 1 via Zoom. GHTC is an international flagship conference sharing practical technology enabled solutions addressing the needs of underserved populations and resource constrained environments around the world and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG). Specifically:
Attendees:
There were 149 registered attendees from 22 countries. Additionally, there were participants during the conference from the Committee, workshop presenters, panelists, speakers, press and session chairs. The map below shows the worldwide distribution of attendees.
Registration breakdown:
The Plenary Program sessions only were offered free and open to all with 109 unique registrations received.
Program Highlights
The Conference program featured workshops, keynote sessions, panels and special events. We also held a Student Poster Competition on Thursday evening.
The technical program consisted of 24 paper sessions with 120 papers including 3 posters.
Thursday Oct. 29
Friday Oct. 30
Saturday Oct. 31
Sunday Nov. 1
Congratulations to the winners of the GHTC 2020 virtual Student Poster Competition held on Thursday, Oct. 29. Awards were presented on Nov.1 in the GHTC 2020 Closing Session.
Judges Award ($750) AND People’s Choice Award ($250) went to the poster “Decreasing Water Usage and Increasing Income for Vietnam Small Farmers: Modeling Plant Stress with Handheld Infrared Thermometers” by Katie Pascavis of Arizona State University.
Technical Award ($500) went to the poster “A Review on Image-Based Wildfire Detection Systems” by Jordan Johnston of Sonoma State University.
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 Decreasing Water Usage and Increasing Income for Vietnam Small Farmers: Modeling Plant Stress with Handheld Infrared Thermometers |
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 A Review on Image-Based Wildfire Detection Systems |
How to execute a community service project with IEEE’s support (through EPICS in IEEE).
How HAC/SIGHT responded to the COVID pandemic – vision and process improvements with examples of some funded projects and building collaboration opportunities.
GHTC 2020 celebrates the 10th anniversary for IEEE GHTC. The anniversary program will consist of some remarks and two panel discussions, one on the evolution of GHTC and the other on IEEE’s role in Humanitarian Technology.
Interactive discussion led by Tom Coughlin, past President IEEE-USA
This talk discusses the IEEE response to institutional racism and the issues with diversity and inclusion in the engineering professions. It also gives several examples of what IEEE members have done to help improve diversity and inclusions and ends with a discussion with the attendees on what they can do to improve diversity and inclusion in the technical professions.
Closing remarks and presentation on Digital Literary with Melissa Sassi, “DQ, a measure for determining one’s digital intelligence”
The GHTC 2020 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce
FREE ACCESS to GHTC 2020 PLENARY SESSIONS (Registration required)
The Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) is the flagship IEEE forum for presenting and discussing humanitarian technology innovation and deployment. The technical focus of the Conference is complemented by an integrated understanding of broader contexts—economics, policy, culture, environment—that impact successful humanitarian technology implementation.
The 10th IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE GHTC 2020) will share practical technology-enabled solutions addressing needs of underserved communities in resource constrained environments around the world in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
GHTC 2020 takes place from Thursday October 29 through mid-afternoon Sunday November 1. See the preliminary program schedule here. Note: Time Zone is PT (e.g. +3 ET, +8 GMT+1). Note time change from PDT to PST on November 1.
Virtual Lunch Presentation
Date: Friday October 23, 2020; High Noon PT
Live Stream from Seattle Washington
Join us for a presentation on Global Humanitarian Technologies. Find out what global humanitarian technology is and how you can play a vital role in saving and improving thousands of lives, making healthier humans and providing services and help for people that do not have lighting when they go to bed or clean water to drink when they are thirsty.
We will discuss:
1. New and innovative technologies that are present today and being used throughout the globe to help save and improve thousands of lives
2. Clean water, electrification, communications Network, Emergency Response
3. Creation of technologies and deployment of systems to remote areas
4. Who is part of the team? How can you help? Who is being helped?
5. How simple devices can be deployed to improve the lives of many
6. IEEE Smart Cities will present a simple power grid technology & deployment
7. When is the next global humanitarian technology conference? Where is it?
