The
IEEE SIGHT (Special Interest
Group on Humanitarian Technology) was inaugurated by Dr.
Peter Staecker (IEEE President 2013) on December 15, 2011,
in Trivandrum, Kerala, India and the first petition to form a SIGHT group was
submitted on 28 April 2012. In the year 2020, the SIGHT Steering Committee
decided to celebrate 28 April as SIGHT Day in recognition of the first SIGHT
group petition submission. However, by that time in the second decade itself of
the 21st century, SIGHT of IEEE Delhi Section was formed with Ravindra Joshi, SMIEEE, of TPDDL
Delhi as its Chairperson. Subsequently although Ravindra Joshi Chaired it several
years, in between other volunteers too provided leadership in his absence from
the country in particular. Activities of the Special Interest
Group in 2023 may be found under the list of Technical,
Professional, Non-Technical, and Administrative events of the Section. With Prof. Abdul Q Ansari of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi provising the leadership as Chair since January 01, 2022, present Committee with
effect from January 01, 2024, consists of the following members:
Sl. No. |
Position |
Name |
Organization |
1. |
Chairperson |
JMI New Delhi |
|
2. |
Vice-Chair |
Amazon Web Services Inc., Delhi |
|
3. |
Secretary |
Manav-Rachna, Faridabad |
|
4. |
Treasurer |
DU |
|
5. |
Past-Chair |
Ex-TPDDL |
|
6. |
Member |
Chitkara University (HP) |
|
7. |
Member |
JUIT Waknaghat (HP) |
|
8. |
Member |
JCBUST Faridabad |
For
contacting Special Interest Group Chair use e-mail: aqansari@ieee.org
(Consult Consolidated list of Delhi Section for other
details.)