What we did in 2020

This post will give a brief overview of what we did in 2020.

Encourage R10 Sections and individuals to work in the area of humanitarian technology:

  1. Three HT projects was selected for funding via R10 TENHUMCH2020. Projects from Bangalore Section, Sendai Section and Hyderabad Section are funded USD1000 for each for their Humanitarian project development.
  2. Two projects was selected for funding via HAC Initiate Program Supporting Fund for the COVID-19 response. Programs from Vizag Bay Section and Sarawak subsection are funded each for USD2000.
  3.  There are 72 SIGHT groups out of 169 was formed in R10, it was 43% among the global. And it was 31(42.5%) projects from R10 was funded by IEEE region affiliation of HAC/SIGHT COVID Projects. IEEE Hyderabad Section, IEEE Madras Section & IEEE Sri Lanka on Section for securing the first round of #COVID-19 special project funding. It shows that R10 HAC has always playing the important role as for organizing and participating HAC Global activities.

Enhance visibility of R10 HTA:

Enhance visibility of R10 HTA and give recognition to significant humanitarian work and projects done by R10 members: HTA Outstanding Volunteer Award 2020 was awarded to Dr. Bijoy Antony Jose from Kerala Section for his excellent contribution on promoting regional and local Humanitarian technologies activities in the year of 2020.

Active Communication with R10 members

Active Communication with R10 members to promote Humanitarian Technology: The HTA tracks are designed and conducted during almost every R10 flagship conference, such as TENSYMP2020, SYWL2020,HTC2020. R10 HTA shall provide a wide range of communication platform for all members who are interested and enabled for humanitarian technology activities.