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Appendix 4: Innovation and Development Committee (IDC)
Board Level Committee Progress Report – October 2009 – May 2011
D. Zekkos
Chair, IDC
1 MEMBERSHIP
1.1 Board and Liaisons
Chair: Dimitrios Zekkos (USA)
Vice Chair: Marc Ballouz (Lebanon)
Primary Liaison: Charles Ng (Hong Kong)
Other liaison: Mike Davies (New Zealand)
1.2 Members (alphabetically)
James Blatz (Canada)
Chung-Tien Chin (Taiwan)
Pierre Delage, (France)
Michael Lisyuk(Russia)
Kok-Kwang Phoon (Singapore)
Mohamed Al-Gharleb Sakr (Egypt)
Fernando Schnaid (Brazil)
Devendra Singh (India)
Sarah Stallebrass (UK)
Ulrich Trunk (Germany)
Eduard Vorster (South Africa)
2 TERMS OF REFERENCE
The following terms of reference have been provided by the
ISSME President and Board: “The IDC will be the think tank of
ISSMGE. Its task will be to think of ways to make ISSMGE
progress in a manner which will increase its usefulness to the
members and provide excitement for the future of geotechnical
engineering in ISSMGE. Among the possible tasks are:
a. Develop innovations to better serve our members and to
increase the impact and influence of ISSMGE and the
Geotechnical Engineer in the world.
b. Develop ways to enhance the value of the web site as a
technical resource worldwide.
c. Develop ways for individual members to communicate
with each other in a very easy fashion.
d. Initiate the webinar series
e. Create and select the recipient for a best innovator of the
year award. This award will be given yearly. The award
will consist of a certificate which will be given to the
ISSMGE member receiving the award.
f. Strengthen and bring to a steady state the International
Journal on Geoengineering Case Histories. Cooperation
with the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) and more
generally all the Technical Committees (TC) is expected.
g. Develop the Lexicon into an electronic tool available on
the web site.”
3 TASKS
Based on the terms of reference and conference calls among the
members of the IDC, the committee divided the tasks in two
main categories:
• “Innovate by Action” (IBA) items that typically are
activities that are valuable to the Profession and can be
realized in the short term (6 months – 3 yrs). IDC can start
work on these activities almost immediately and the
ISSMGE board will support easily.
• “Innovate by Vision” (IBV) items typically are activities
that require much longer time to be realized, (>2 yrs) and
may encompass a number of IBA activities. Although the
IDC can start working on these items too, many times
they require moving the organization in a new direction,
and thus deliberations by the ISSMGE Board and final
approval is required. However, these activities are more
likely to have a major impact to the Profession.
The following tasks have been identified as priority activities
and are also ident
1. Innovator of the Year Award (IBA Item #1)
2. Electronic Lexicon (IBA Item #2)
3. Webinars (IBA Item #3)
4. ISSMGE website(IBV Item #1a)
5. Information Technology in Geoengineering (IBV Item
#1b)
6. Integrate ISSMGE – International Journal of
Geoengineering Case Histories (IBA Item #4)
7. Explore/provide new tools/services to ISSMGE
members (IBV Item #2)
8. Increase awareness of ISSMGE among students and
young geoengineers (IBV Item #3)
9. Support developing Countries (IBV Item #4)
10. Encourage industry sponsorship (IBV Item #5)
FIG. 1. Schematic of categorization of IDC Activities.
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