DECEMBER 1 - 3, 2020 | KUCHING, SARAWAK, MALAYSIA
8TH IEEE R10 HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 2020
DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM FOR HUMANITY



Call for Papers for the
Special Session & Humanitarian Technologies/Educational Activities Forum
“Educational Activities and Digital Technology for Humanity and Life-Long Learning“
The mission of IEEE is “Advancing Technology for Humanity”. One of the focuses of the IEEE Strategic Plan 2020-2025 is “IEEE will be a trusted source of educational services and resources to support Life-Long-Learning”. Life-Long-Learning (LLL) can be defined as an “ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons”.
In the past years, many projects on humanitarian technologies (HT) and educational activities (EA) have been successfully executed within the IEEE Asia Pacific Region with the support of local organisations and IEEE operating units (OU). Many of them have fulfilled the educational and learning objectives with long lasting impacts.
This special session aims to invite submission of papers to share and showcase success, and with particular focus on LLL. This is intended to serve as inspiration and model for students, academics, researchers and the community. The best submission in this session will receive a Certificate of Recognition. Submitted papers must follow the required format of the conference publication and undergo a peer review process.
SPECIAL SESSION 1:
Life-Long-Learning with Humanitarian Technologies (HT) and Education Activities (EA) for the Benefits of Humanity
The world has witnessed rapid advancements in technologies during the past decades. One of the implications is the shortening of the life-span, and ease of access to knowledge. This poses a requirement for everyone to embark a “Life-Long-Learning (LLL)” practice to maintain the currency of one’s knowledge and professional practices. In addition, research also suggests continued cognitive activities in a lifetime of learning has positive effect on the body and mind of the citizens.
The IEEE Humanitarian Activities are instrumental to inspire and enable IEEE volunteers to carry out and support projects with impactful and sustainable developments at the local level. IEEE also provides programs and resources specifically intended to serve the educational pursuits of IEEE members, the engineering and scientific communities, and the general public. It is worth noting that a combination of these three – LLL, HT and EA will bring benefits to the project team and humanity.
This proposed forum will invite speakers and leaders in the IEEE community and government to discuss and sharing of the opportunities, and examples of past success in the implications of humanitarian technology (HT) and educational activities (EA) while meeting the LLL objectives for those involved. Audience will be able to learn from the experience of the speakers and have the opportunities to make any suggestions and raising of concerns.
Session Chair:
Professor Emeritus Lance Chun
Special Session 2:
IEEE MY CNAG ON Integrating Humanity into Industry 4.0
The advancement of technology for Industry 4.0 sets a challenge to the human aspect in its deployment and implementation. Humanity here is defined as the quality of being humane and human, in which the technology for Industry 4.0 implementation itself should show evidence of moral and intellectual advancement, motivated by concern with the alleviation of human suffering and difficulties. In other words, it is important to integrate the concept of easing the pain of the human users into the implementation of technology. This can be performed by making the supply chain and smart industry and manufacturing more humane. One way to look at it can be in terms of knowledge and human intelligence being transferred and integrated into the system, as well as having a good human-computer interface that ease the daily tasks in the supply chain. Up to one extend, the technology can be developed to be considerate as humans do, with belief, desire and intention (BDI), like how robotics and artificial intelligence are designed for. Nevertheless, the challenge in integrating humanity into Industry 4.0 varies at different level of its implementation, from the original source to the end users.
This special session welcomes original and unpublished contributions on all aspects of Integrating Humanity into Industry 4.0, including but not limited to:
- Human-based computer solutions for business in Industry 4.0
- Humanity in big data analytics for Industry 4.0
- Human-computer interaction in software engineering for Industry 4.0
- Humanity in artificial intelligence for Industry 4.0
- Human intelligence in manufacturing, operations and logistics systems
- Human knowledge integration in Industry 4.0
- The design and development of technology for humanity in Industry 4.0
- The use of technology for humanity in Industry 4.0
- Issues and Challenges in integrating humanity into Industry 4.0
Session Chair:
Dr. Haroon Rashid
Special Session 3:
Technology for Ageing Population
The whole world is ageing where it can be seen every country is experiencing growth in the number and proportion of older persons in their population. According to World Population Prospects: the 2019 Revision, by 2050, one in six people in the world will be over age 65 (16%), up from one in 11 in 2019 (9%). Population ageing is assured to give impact to the social transfiguration in this century, with implications on almost all sectors of society and community, including financial, health, demands of goods and services (such as housing, transportation and social protection), as well as family structures and intergenerational ties. The challenges of this demographic shift can be overcome with the use of technology. Growing researches/works can be seen on how technology can support and empower ageing population to lead happy and healthy life.
This special session aims to invite submission of papers to share related work with focus on technology for ageing population. This include (but not limited to) assistive/wearable devices, Internet of Things, healthcare, and artificial intelligence in how they can improve/ maintain the quality of life. This is intended to serve as inspiration and model for students, academics, researchers, and the community.
Session Chair:
Dr. Siti Anom Ahmad
Special Session 4:
Social Innovation and Creativity during COVID-19
The global crises caused by the COVID-19 has had wide-ranging impacts across all sectors and stratum of society. This impact has increases the need for social innovation and creativity in co-creating and delivering innovative solutions to people in all sectors in coping with the pandemic. Evidence-based social innovation have shown a way-out of this crisis and that requires rapid actions by researchers and innovators to address the immediate needs and empower their communities with the solutions. The results of the innovations should always be improvement. The fundamental outcomes of social innovations and creativity are the increase well-being and communication, education accessibility, environmental sustainability and economic growth. These are also part of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The purpose of this special session is to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on social innovation and creativity and vice versa, in coping with the pandemic and its relationship to resilience. We invite papers from researchers, teachers and innovators to share their results of innovation from technologies, communications and services simultaneously to meet a social need during the pandemic, highlight innovative models and measurements of social innovations, address the social challenges and questions on innovation and creativity and many more. Submitted papers must follow the required format of the conference publication and undergo a peer review process. There will be best submission in this special session and they will receive a certificate.
Session Chair:
Dr Jacey-Lynn Minoi via the ACES programme
Special Session 5:
Women in ENGINEERING FOR HUMANITY
Women in Engineering (WIE) for Humanity is a special session being organized in conjuction with the Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference which will be held virtually (via online platform) on 1st to 3rd December 2020. The aim of this session is to gather participants via deliberation of project for humanity cause run by women in engineering. No doubt the role of women in many humanity activities are important. This session is to bring closer women and share the knowledge and experience in humanity project involvement.
Session Chair:
Ir. Dr. Rosmiwati Mohd Mokhtar



Session Chairs
- Professor Emeritus Lance Chun
- Dr. Haroon Rashid
- Dr. Siti Anom Ahmad
- Dr Jacey-Lynn Minoi
- Ir. Dr. Rosmiwati Mohd Mokhtar
Special Session Organiser and Forum Convener :
Professor Emeritus Lance Chun Che Fung,
IEEE R10 Chair of Educational Activities Committee (2019-2020)
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Lance has been an active volunteer for IEEE for over two decades and is the current Chair of the IEEE Region 10 Education Activities Committee. He is also the immediate past chair of the IEEE New Initiatives Committee, the IEEE Conference Quality Community and the Technical Program Integrity Committee. His research interest is in the development and applications of innovative intelligent technologies to practical problems. Lance has authored and co-authored over 380 articles in referred journals and conference proceedings. He has also supervised over 30 doctoral students to completion. His profile can be found at http://profiles.murdoch.edu.au/myprofile/lance-fung/
Session Chair for IEEE MY CNAG ON INTEGRATING HUMANITY INTO INDUSTRY 4.0
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He completed his BSc in Mathematics from the University of Punjab, Pakistan and then joined University of Sunderland, United Kingdom to complete his second undergraduate degree with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. For his post-graduation studies, he joined Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and received his M.Sc. in Microelectronics Engineering and PhD in Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering.
He has over 12 years of working experience in the field of research, academia and industry as researcher, lecturer and engineer with various reputable organisations locally and abroad. He has been a mentor of various undergraduate and postgraduate students. He has given several talks and trainings on different topics at various organizations as invited speaker. He has authored more than 25 research articles and international conference proceedings as well as two books. He has one national patent and two books under review at the moment. His current research interests are in the areas of novel 2D materials for optoelectronic applications, thin films fabrication and characterization, solar photovoltaics, nanotechnology and renewable energy applications.
Dr. Haroon is an active member and volunteer of IEEE – USA, IET – UK and National Academy of Young Scientists - Pakistan. Currently, he is the Chair of IEEE Young Professionals Malaysia, Vice-Chair of IEEE Consultants Network Malaysia and Students & Young Professionals Activities Chair of IEEE Power & Energy Society Malaysia Chapter.
Session Chair for Technology for Ageing Population
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She is a Professional Engineer of Board of Engineers Malaysia, Chartered Engineer of Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Senior Member of Institute of Electrical& Electronic Engineering (IEEE) and member of the Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM). Her research interests are biomedical engineering, gerontechnology and intelligent control system. Siti Anom has been an active volunteer for IEEE for a decade and is the current Chair-Elect of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Malaysia Chapter.
Social Innovation and Creativity during COVID-19
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WOMEN IN ENGINEERING FOR HUMANITY
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