The IEEE Ghana Section organised an Executive committee meeting which took place at the Pentecost University College.The meeting which started from 10am-12am on the 17th of March, 2011, was attended by Prof. A. Gyasi-Agyei (Chair),Mrs Eva Esther Shalin (Treasurer), Mr Emmanuel Buabin (Newsletter Editor), Miss Millicent Sasu Kontoh (SB Counselor @ Pentecost University College), and Mr Bright Yaw Amoo (Webmaster).
During the two hour meeting, a lot was discussed including Confirmation of minutes of previous meeting and Formation of SB at Methodist University College. At the meeting, the Newsletter Editor was confirmed into the position.It was also agreed upon by the Excom members that, the Newsletter shall be printed on a quarterly basis starting from June, 2011.The Committee also agreed to create prizes and awards for every tertiary institute in Ghana offering IEEE-related programs to motivate membership.

For more information about what transpired during the Excom meeting, please find attached the file (Minute) below.

IEEE Student branches provide an opportunity for student members to begin networking in their areas of interest, and future profession. There are, at the moment, three(3) student branches in Ghana at their respective educational institutions.

Below is a list of these student branches:

The second IEEE Ghana Section Annual General Meeting (AGM) will come off this 10th September at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE), opposite the Parliament House (behind Parliament House, Council of State road).

Please email us at: info [at] ieeeghana [dot] org.

More details concerning the agenda of the meeting will be posted soon.

The African Winter School on Information Theory and Communications 2010 will take place at Mopani Camp in the Kruger National Park, the largest game reserve in South Africa, from June 1st until June 4th. Organized by the Telecommunications Research Group of the University of Johannesburg, the goal of the winter school is to provide opportunities for increased co-operation and knowledge sharing between African students, universities and research institutes.

Doctoral students and young faculty staff members, from Africa and other continents, are encouraged to present their ongoing research and discuss it with international experts. Students are welcome to make presentations irrespective of the phase of their research. All submitted summaries will be informally reviewed by the technical chair. The number of topics will not be limited and we hope to have a wide range of presentations in the Information Theory and Communications field.

Study leaders are also encouraged to attend in order to establish more high-level co-operation between African and other universities. Although the focus is on young researchers, there will be limited recent results sessions for more established researchers to also present their work.

Internationally acclaimed researchers in Information Theory and Communications are also being invited to present tutorials.

Click here to visit the website for more information.

The grace period to renew your IEEE membership is the end of February. The following two
things have been made to make your renewal easy:

1. You pay only 50% of the membership fees if you can prove to the IEEE
   that you earned not more than USD13,500 pa in the 2009. Please see pages 4
   and 5 of the attached file.
2. You don't need to pay high bank transaction fees to renew your
   membership. Please just pay into the account of IEEE Ghana Section and
   then inform us of your details and we shall do the rest for you. Details
   can be found here >>

Please kindly renew so that we can organize more professional meetings.