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Appendix 4. Innovation and Development (IDC) Committee
D. Zekkos
Chairman, IDC Committee
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MEMBERSHIP
1.1
Board and Liaisons
Chair: Dimitrios Zekkos (USA
) zekkos@geoengineer.orgPrimary Liaison: Charles Ng (Hong Kong
) cecwwng@ust.hkOther liaison: Mike Davies (New Zealand)
michael.davies@auckland.ac.nz1.2
Members (alphabetically)
James Blatz (Canada
) blatzja@cc.umanitoba.caChung-Tien Chin (Taiwan)
ctchin@cogen.com.twPierre Delage, (France
) delage@cermes.enpc.frKok-Kwang Phoon (Singapore
) kkphoon@nus.edu.sgMohamed Al-Gharleb Sakr (Egypt
) mamsakr@yahoo.comFernando Schnaid (Brazil
) fschnaid@gmail.comDevendra Singh (India
) dns@civil.iitb.ac.inSarah Stallebrass (UK
) S.E.Stallebrass@city.ac.ukUlrich Trunk (Germany
) U.Trunk@kellerholding.comEduard Vorster (South Africa)
Eduard.Vorster@af.aurecongroup.com ).
1.3
Additional Members who Retired from the IDC to Assume
other ISSMGE Leadership Positions:
Marc Ballouz (Lebanon
) MBallouz@i-g-m.com(Vice Chair of
IDC from 2009-2011) – Became Chair of the Public Relations
Committee
Michael Lisyuk (Russia
) lisyuk@gmail.com– (Member of IDC
from 2009-2011) Became Chair of the Corporate Associated
Presidential Group (CAPG)
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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.”
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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: IBA items 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 easily
support them.
• “Innovate by Vision” (IBV) items: IBV items 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. Most of them are expected to last beyond this
Committee’s appointment. However, these activities are more
likely to have a lasting impact to the Profession.
The IBA and IBV items that were identified by the IDC
members as priority activities are shown in the Table below.
The third column lists the tasks that were completed in the
2009-2013 tenure of this committee that contributed towards the
IBA and IBV items.
Table 1: Identified IBA and IBV items and related completed tasks that
contributed towards addressing these items
IBA/IBV Item
Topic
2009-2013
Related Task
IBA Item #1 Innovator of the Year Award
Task 1
IBA Item #2 Electronic Lexicon
Task 2
IBA Item #3 Webinars
Task 3
IBV Item #1a ISSMGE website
Task 4
IBV Item #1b Information Technology in
Geoengineering
Task 5
IBA Item #4
Integrate ISSMGE – International
Journal of Geoengineering Case
Histories
Task 6
IBV Item #2 Explore/provide new tools/services
to ISSMGE members
Tasks 2, 3, 4, 5
and 6
IBV Item #3
Increase awareness of ISSMGE
among students and young
geoengineers
Tasks 3, 4, and 5
IBV Item #4 Support developing Countries
Task 4, 5, and 6
IBV Item #5 Encourage industry sponsorship
Not explicitly
pursued; item part
of the MPAC
Board-level
Committee
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