[{"id":569,"date":"2021-11-01T12:04:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/?p=569"},"modified":"2021-11-01T14:15:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T18:15:52","slug":"technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ELDERLY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs style=&#8221;modern&#8221; active_section=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;About&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1635782510535-61d0ae2d-dbec&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We are surrounded by an explosion of technology-based solutions that could improve the quality of life for older adults. Are you aware of these technologies? What are the challenges and opportunities for getting these technologies into people\u2019s hands? Do elders really benefit from this?\u00a0<strong>IEEE SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) Montreal<\/strong>\u00a0invites you to attend a panel discussion where outstanding speakers with different backgrounds will cover all these subjects from multiple angles.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Panellists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Jane Barratt<\/strong>, Secretary-General, International Federation on Ageing (IFA)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Alex Mihailidis<\/strong>, Scientific Director &amp; CEO, AGE-WELL<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joseph Wei<\/strong>, Managing Director, Technology Ventures Group, LLC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moderator:\u00a0<strong>Imene Romdhane<\/strong>, Coordinator of Partnerships, IEEE SIGHT Montreal<\/p>\n<p>Reserve your virtual seat <a href=\"https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/m\/285551\">here<\/a>![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Media&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1635782510541-4fae49a6-e51a&#8221;][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][vc_single_image image=&#8221;578&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; title=&#8221;Jane Barratt&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;575&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; title=&#8221;Alex Mihailidis&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;576&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; title=&#8221;Joseph Wei&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;577&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; title=&#8221;Moderator: Imene Romdhane&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs style=&#8221;modern&#8221; active_section=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;About&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1635782510535-61d0ae2d-dbec&#8221;][vc_column_text]<br \/>\nWe are surrounded by an explosion of technology-based solutions that could improve the quality of life for older adults. Are you aware of these technologies? What are the challenges and opportunities for getting these technologies into people\u2019s hands? Do elders really &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ELDERLY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES - IEEE SIGHT Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ELDERLY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES - IEEE SIGHT Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs style=&#8221;modern&#8221; active_section=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;About&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1635782510535-61d0ae2d-dbec&#8221;][vc_column_text] We are surrounded by an explosion of technology-based solutions that could improve the quality of life for older adults. Are you aware of these technologies? What are the challenges and opportunities for getting these technologies into people\u2019s hands? Do elders really ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-01T16:04:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-01T18:15:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mjdarvishi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"mjdarvishi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"mjdarvishi\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\"},\"headline\":\"TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ELDERLY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-01T16:04:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-01T18:15:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":216,\"commentCount\":0,\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\\\/\",\"name\":\"TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ELDERLY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES - IEEE SIGHT Montreal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-01T16:04:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-01T18:15:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ELDERLY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/\",\"name\":\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal\",\"description\":\"The official website of IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Montreal\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\",\"name\":\"mjdarvishi\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"mjdarvishi\"},\"sameAs\":[\"Mohammad Javad Darvishi Bayazi\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/author\\\/mjdarvishi\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ELDERLY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ELDERLY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","og_description":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs style=&#8221;modern&#8221; active_section=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;About&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1635782510535-61d0ae2d-dbec&#8221;][vc_column_text] We are surrounded by an explosion of technology-based solutions that could improve the quality of life for older adults. Are you aware of these technologies? What are the challenges and opportunities for getting these technologies into people\u2019s hands? Do elders really ...","og_url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\/","og_site_name":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal","article_published_time":"2021-11-01T16:04:08+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-11-01T18:15:52+00:00","author":"mjdarvishi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"mjdarvishi","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\/"},"author":{"name":"mjdarvishi","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a"},"headline":"TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ELDERLY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES","datePublished":"2021-11-01T16:04:08+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-01T18:15:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\/"},"wordCount":216,"commentCount":0,"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\/","url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\/","name":"TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ELDERLY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-11-01T16:04:08+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-01T18:15:52+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/technology-for-the-elderly-challenges-and-opportunities\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ELDERLY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#website","url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/","name":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal","description":"The official website of IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Montreal","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a","name":"mjdarvishi","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"mjdarvishi"},"sameAs":["Mohammad Javad Darvishi Bayazi"],"url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/author\/mjdarvishi\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":556,"date":"2021-10-03T17:03:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T21:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/?p=556"},"modified":"2021-10-03T17:11:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T21:11:05","slug":"ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](Version en fran\u00e7ais ci-dessous)<\/p>\n<p>Would you like\u2026<\/p>\n<p>To create solutions to specific problems?<br \/>\nTo have a social impact and contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals?<br \/>\nTo expand your network?<\/p>\n<p>IEEE SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) of the Montreal Section is looking for volunteers! We need mainly software developers, students or professionals, in order to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Help build the health digital platforms of the future (AI, mobile, Web), in collaboration with Hacking Health;<\/li>\n<li>Develop an age-friendly mobile application to inform senior people about social and physical activities, and the availability of volunteers to accompany or assist them in their everyday tasks;<\/li>\n<li>Create the Web page of our group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other volunteering opportunities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>*\u00a0<b>Social Media Manager<\/b>: To manage our Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter accounts, share interesting content about humanitarian technology and sustainable development topics and add more followers.<br \/>\n*\u00a0<b>Publicity Designer<\/b>: To design the images intended for publicity of our events and activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interested? Do not hesitate to contact us at s&#105;&#103;&#x68;&#x74;&#x2e;&#x6d;o&#110;&#116;&#114;&#x65;&#x61;&#x6c;&#64;g&#109;&#97;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x2e;co&#109;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>======<\/p>\n<p>Aimeriez-vous\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Cr\u00e9er des solutions \u00e0 des probl\u00e8mes concrets?<br \/>\nAvoir un impact social et contribuer aux Objectifs de D\u00e9veloppement Durable de l\u2019ONU?<br \/>\nFaire des rencontres enrichissantes?<br \/>\nIEEE SIGHT (groupe d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat sp\u00e9cial en technologie humanitaire) de la Section IEEE Montr\u00e9al est en qu\u00eate des b\u00e9n\u00e9voles! Nous avons besoin principalement de d\u00e9veloppeurs logiciel, \u00e9tudiants ou professionnels, afin de:<\/p>\n<p>b\u00e2tir les plate-formes num\u00e9riques de sant\u00e9 de l\u2019avenir (mobile, Web), en collaboration avec Hacking Health;<br \/>\nd\u00e9velopper une application mobile adapt\u00e9e aux personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es pour les informer sur des activit\u00e9s physiques et sociales, ainsi que sur la disponibilit\u00e9 de b\u00e9n\u00e9voles pour les accompagner ou les aider dans leurs t\u00e2ches quotidiennes;<br \/>\ncr\u00e9er la page Web de notre groupe.<br \/>\nD\u2019autres opportunit\u00e9s de b\u00e9n\u00e9volat:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gestionnaire des m\u00e9dias sociaux<\/li>\n<li>Concepteur publicitaire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Int\u00e9ress\u00e9(e)s? N\u2019h\u00e9sitez pas \u00e0 nous contacter \u00e0 &#x73;i&#x67;&#104;&#x74;&#46;&#x6d;&#x6f;n&#x74;&#114;&#x65;&#97;&#x6c;&#64;g&#x6d;&#97;&#x69;&#108;&#x2e;&#99;o&#x6d;.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](Version en fran\u00e7ais ci-dessous)<br \/>\nWould you like\u2026<br \/>\nTo create solutions to specific problems?<br \/>\nTo have a social impact and contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals?<br \/>\nTo expand your network?<br \/>\nIEEE SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) of the Montreal Section is looking for volunteers! We need mainly software &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-join_us-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2021 - IEEE SIGHT Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2021 - IEEE SIGHT Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](Version en fran\u00e7ais ci-dessous) Would you like\u2026 To create solutions to specific problems? To have a social impact and contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals? To expand your network? IEEE SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) of the Montreal Section is looking for volunteers! We need mainly software ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-03T21:03:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-03T21:11:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/depositphotos_63115331-stock-photo-people-around-word-join-us.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1023\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"938\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mjdarvishi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"mjdarvishi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"mjdarvishi\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\"},\"headline\":\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2021\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-03T21:03:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-03T21:11:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":348,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/depositphotos_63115331-stock-photo-people-around-word-join-us.jpeg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Join_us\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\\\/\",\"name\":\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2021 - IEEE SIGHT Montreal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/depositphotos_63115331-stock-photo-people-around-word-join-us.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-03T21:03:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-03T21:11:05+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/depositphotos_63115331-stock-photo-people-around-word-join-us.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/depositphotos_63115331-stock-photo-people-around-word-join-us.jpeg\",\"width\":1023,\"height\":938},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2021\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/\",\"name\":\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal\",\"description\":\"The official website of IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Montreal\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\",\"name\":\"mjdarvishi\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"mjdarvishi\"},\"sameAs\":[\"Mohammad Javad Darvishi Bayazi\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/author\\\/mjdarvishi\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2021 - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2021 - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","og_description":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](Version en fran\u00e7ais ci-dessous) Would you like\u2026 To create solutions to specific problems? To have a social impact and contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals? To expand your network? IEEE SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) of the Montreal Section is looking for volunteers! We need mainly software ...","og_url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/","og_site_name":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal","article_published_time":"2021-10-03T21:03:40+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-10-03T21:11:05+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1023,"height":938,"url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/depositphotos_63115331-stock-photo-people-around-word-join-us.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"mjdarvishi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"mjdarvishi","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/"},"author":{"name":"mjdarvishi","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a"},"headline":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2021","datePublished":"2021-10-03T21:03:40+00:00","dateModified":"2021-10-03T21:11:05+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/"},"wordCount":348,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/depositphotos_63115331-stock-photo-people-around-word-join-us.jpeg","articleSection":["Join_us"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/","url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/","name":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2021 - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/depositphotos_63115331-stock-photo-people-around-word-join-us.jpeg","datePublished":"2021-10-03T21:03:40+00:00","dateModified":"2021-10-03T21:11:05+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/depositphotos_63115331-stock-photo-people-around-word-join-us.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/depositphotos_63115331-stock-photo-people-around-word-join-us.jpeg","width":1023,"height":938},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers-2021\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2021"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#website","url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/","name":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal","description":"The official website of IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Montreal","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a","name":"mjdarvishi","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"mjdarvishi"},"sameAs":["Mohammad Javad Darvishi Bayazi"],"url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/author\/mjdarvishi\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":491,"date":"2021-05-07T22:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T02:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/?p=491"},"modified":"2021-08-21T21:51:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T01:51:48","slug":"ai-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"AI against COVID-19: Screening X-ray Images for COVID-19 Infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;528&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221;][vc_tta_accordion][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Overview&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;Overview&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, has generated an unprecedented global health crisis, with more than 2.7 million deaths worldwide. Do you want to contribute to the fight against this pandemic? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>IEEE SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) of the Montreal Section, Vision and Image Processing Research Group of the University of Waterloo, and DarwinAI Corp.<\/strong> invite data scientists, students and professionals working on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to participate in a virtual competition to help medical researchers diagnose COVID-19 with chest X-ray (CXR) images. The ultimate goal is to contribute to the development of highly accurate yet practical AI solutions for detecting COVID-19 cases and, hopefully, accelerating the treatment of those who need it the most. Moreover, this AI for Good initiative will also allow us to take action on at least one of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/goals\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Good Health and Well-Being.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The competition is composed of 2 phases:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In <\/span><b>the First Phase<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the challenge consists of designing robust machine learning algorithms to predict if the subjects of study are either COVID-19 positive or COVID-19 negative. The dataset for this competition is the dataset curated by COVID-Net, a global open-source initiative launched by DarwinAI Corp., Canada, and Vision and Image Processing Research Group, University of Waterloo, Canada, for accelerating advancements in machine learning to aid healthcare workers around the world in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. More about the COVID-Net initiative and available open-source resources are available <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.covid-net.ml\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the <\/span><b>Second Phase<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the 5 top teams of the first phase will have the opportunity to refine their solution and submit a proposal for a follow-up project to positively impact society or the academic community.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This competition is organized in collaboration with the National Research Council Canada and co-hosted by the IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Groups of Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver Sections, Vancouver Circuit and Systems (CAS) Technical Chapter, the Student Branches of INRS (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique) and Vancouver Simon Fraser University, and WIE (Women In Engineering) Ottawa. It is also largely <strong>sponsored by Microsoft<\/strong>, and partially by the IEEE Canada Humanitarian Initiatives Committee and the IEEE Montreal Section.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;General competition rules&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;General-competition-rules&#8221;][vc_column_text]<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Note: This competition is intended for <strong>participants living in Canada<\/strong>, due to restrictions on funds transfer. Check the specific rules for eligibility of international participants<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>First Phase<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can participate individually or as a team. However, only submissions from a single account are allowed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone involved in organizing the competition is not allowed to participate in this competition.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You have 2 weeks to submit your solution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The winning teams are required to open source their code.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The winning teams will have the opportunity to write a manuscript with the organizers on implementation details of their work.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can submit a maximum of 5+1 entries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can select only one final submission for judging.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By participating in the competition, you agree to the competition rules and code of conduct.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Second Phase<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each applicant may submit only one proposal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proposals must involve the deployment of technology, customization of technology, and\/or development of technology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Projects developing a medical device must collaborate with medical professionals and\/or organizations. The funds may not be used for a) tests of medical equipment on people\/animals or b) mass production and\/or deployment of devices that require but have not yet undergone the appropriate regulation, such as government approvals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proposals must clearly articulate the impact of the project and how it will be measured, using the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1B3c9G9W-mO30PgQASXt1sXMgNuvjwQry\/view\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Project Assessment Matrix<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Applicants can take the free online HAC\/SIGHT course on IEEE Learning Network, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/iln.ieee.org\/public\/contentdetails.aspx?id=FF0759FA80F24542B76C79E0B73955F7\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Project Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d for more information on how to complete the matrix and monitoring and evaluation best practices at all stages of a project.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proposals must contain the provided budget application form completed.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Expenses should cover direct project costs, including necessary equipment, materials, supplies, software licenses, research publications, conference registration, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Given current circumstances, travel expenses should be avoided.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone contributing to the project cannot receive reimbursement of salary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No indirect costs will be considered for funding, including but not limited to overhead expenses, Facilities &amp; Administrative (F&amp;A) costs, tuition, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Funds must be expended within a maximum of four months from the announcement of the selected projects.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Specific competition rules&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;Specific-competition-rules&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i>Open Source<\/i><\/b><b>:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You hereby license and will license the source code used to generate your submission under an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensource.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">www.opensource.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). This in no event limits commercial use of such code or model containing or depending on such code. To the extent your submission makes use of generally commercially available software not owned by you, that you used to generate your submission, but that can be procured by the Organizing Committee of this Competition without undue expense, you do not grant the license in the preceding sentence to that software.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i>Eligibility:<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If you are entering as a representative of a company, educational institution or other legal entity, or on behalf of your employer, these rules are binding on you, individually, and the entity you represent. If you are acting within the scope of your employment, as an employee, contractor, or agent of another party, you warrant that such party has full knowledge of your actions and has consented thereto, including your potential receipt of a Prize and Project Funding. You further warrant that your actions do not violate your employer&#8217;s or entity&#8217;s policies and procedures.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i>Eligibility of international participants<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: If you live in a different country than Canada, you are allowed to participate only if (i) you give up the Prizes and Project Funding or (ii) if you are part of a team where there is at least one participant that resides in Canada. The Organizing Committee will only deal with participants from Canada and will not be responsible for any international transaction and fee charges associated with it in such a case (ii).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i>Integrity: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Organizing Committee reserves the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate on any dispute at any time. If you provide any false information relating to the Competition concerning your identity, residency, mailing address, telephone number, email address, ownership of right, or information required for entering the Competition, you may be immediately disqualified from the Competition.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i>Competition Period: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the purposes of Prizes, the Competition will run from the Start Date and time to the Final Submission Deadline (such duration is the \u201cCompetition Period\u201d). You are responsible for determining the corresponding time zone in your location.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i>Submission: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Submissions are void if they are in whole or part illegible, incomplete, damaged, altered, counterfeit, obtained through fraud, or late. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to disqualify any entrant who does not follow these rules, including making a submission that does not meet the requirements.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i>Winner Notification<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: If a potential winner (i) does not respond to the notification attempt within one (1) week from the first notification attempt or (ii) notifies the Organizing Committee within one week after the Final Submission Deadline that the potential winner does not want to be nominated as a winner or does not want to receive a Prize, then, in each case (i) and (ii) such potential winner will not receive any Prize, and an alternate potential winner will be selected from among all eligible entries received based on the Competition\u2019s judging criteria.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b><i>Disqualification<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: The Organizing Committee reserves the right to disqualify any participant from the Competition if the Organizing Committee reasonably believes that the participant has attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of the Competition by not following the Code of Conduct, cheating, deception, or other unfair playing practices or abuses, threatens or harasses any other participants or the Organizing Committee.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Code of conduct&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;Code-of-conduct&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a participant of this competition, we ask that you follow the research integrity described more here: (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/research\/office-research-ethics\/research-integrity\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/research\/office-research-ethics\/research-integrity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). In this regard, you might find several solutions for image classification on the Internet. However, even if you can get inspired by them, in the end, you should implement your own code. You might get some ideas from open source network designs like COVID-Net (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2003.09871.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2003.09871.pdf<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). However, you cannot use their models and codes directly in this competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also, you can only use the provided dataset for training your model. If you use additional datasets, you will be disqualified. Privately sharing code or data outside of teams is not permitted and is against the code of conduct.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;How to participate&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;How-to-participate&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The competition is hosted on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eval.ai\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eval.ai<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> online platform. To participate, you or your team will need to perform the following steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Register individually at the link provided on the vTools page: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/m\/269273\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/m\/269273<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Register yourself or your team at the link on Eval.ai: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eval.ai\/web\/challenges\/challenge-page\/925\/participate\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/eval.ai\/web\/challenges\/challenge-page\/925\/participate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Follow the instructions here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/evalai.readthedocs.io\/en\/latest\/participate.html#\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/evalai.readthedocs.io\/en\/latest\/participate.html#<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Download the dataset from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/andyczhao\/covidx-cxr2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/andyczhao\/covidx-cxr2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Design an AI algorithm that gets CXR images as inputs and predicts the labels of the images in the output (COVID or non-COVID).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Train your AI algorithm using the training dataset.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Submit your predictions through Eval.ai for evaluation against the test dataset for the competition.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the Second Phase, an application form needs to be completed. Clear instructions will be sent to the 5 top teams of the First Phase.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Data&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;Data&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can download the dataset from<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/andyczhao\/covidx-cxr2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/andyczhao\/covidx-cxr2<\/span><\/a>. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This dataset consists of more than <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">16000<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(480&#215;480) chest X-ray images gathered from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">15000<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> patients for the training set and public test set, with a few hundred chest X-ray images held out for evaluation in this competition which has not been released. The dataset contains positive and negative classes to indicate COVID or non-COVID cases. An example of images can be seen below.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-469 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/cxr-examples-344x278.png\" alt=\"Examples of CXR images\" width=\"486\" height=\"393\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/cxr-examples-344x278.png 344w, https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/cxr-examples-768x620.png 768w, https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/cxr-examples.png 819w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 486px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 486\/393;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Example CXR images from the COVIDx dataset: (A) non-COVID19 infection, and (B, C, D) COVID-19 viral infection.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You will find the following directories and files in the dataset:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>train<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Contains the training set images. Each image has a unique name.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>test<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Contains the test set images. Each image has a unique name.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>train_labels.csv<\/b> It is a CSV file with two columns. The first column indicates the names of the images in the training set and the second column indicates the labels of images. The labels are 1 or 0 (1 for positive COVID cases and 0 for non-COVID samples).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Evaluation criteria&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;Evaluation-criteria&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The competition consists of binary classification of covid-19 positive and covid-19 negative classes. The score given to the final test results of each team is based on the weighted sum of the Sensitivity, Positive Predictive Value (PPV), and the Runtime of the model. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be more specific, the final score is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Score = 6PN\u00a0+ 5PP\u00a0+ 3SN\u00a0+ 2SP\u00a0&#8211; wt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">P <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">P<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">P<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> refer to the Sensitivity and PPV of the COVID-19 positive class. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">P<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">N <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">N<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> refer to the PPV and the Sensitivity of the COVID-19 negative class. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is the runtime of the algorithm and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a non-negative weight.\u00a0 The score can be subject to change before the opening of the competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the Second Phase, the proposals will be reviewed based on the following criteria:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The benefit to the affected local community<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Project scope well defined<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Strength of team and capacity to attain a goal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The overall potential for success<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Prizes&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;Prizes&#8221;][vc_column_text]<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Note: This competition is intended for <strong>participants living in Canada<\/strong>, due to restrictions on funds transfer. Check the specific rules for eligibility of international participants<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For <\/span><b>the First Phase<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the first five best solutions will be awarded monetary prizes and Azure credits:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First place: 1,000 CAD + 500 CAD in Azure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Second place: 800 CAD + 300 CAD in Azure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Third place: 600 CAD + 300 CAD in Azure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fourth place: 400 CAD + 300 CAD in Azure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fifth place: 300 CAD + 300 CAD in Azure.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><b>top 5 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">teams on the leaderboard will also have the following opportunities:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Participate in the 2nd phase to refine their solution and receive funding for a project.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Write a scientific paper with the Vision and Image Processing Research Group, from the University of Waterloo, to explain their approach.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For <\/span><b>the Second Phase<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the best three projects can receive funds up to the following amounts:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Project 1: 5,000 CAD.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Project 2: 5,000 CAD.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Project 3: 4,000 CAD.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Term of funding: Up to 4 months following the announcement of the selected teams. The deadline is December 31st, 2021.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Dates&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;Dates&#8221;][vc_column_text]First Phase:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Opening ceremony: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 27th, 2021 (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ly9WfAyTiDk\">Video<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>The competition starts on: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 31st, 2021<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Workshop and Networking session: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 5th, 2021 (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X5qFajQRZYI\">Video<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>The competition ends on: <span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><del datetime=\"2021-06-17T20:02:53+00:00\">June 14th, 2021<\/del><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (June 16th, 2021)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Closing ceremony:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> June 18th, 2021 (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ge9MvG5lOU8\">Video<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Second Phase (for the top 5 teams):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Deadline for submission of project proposals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: July 15th, 2021<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Announcement of the selected teams<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: August 22nd, 2021<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Reviewing Committee&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;Reviewing-Committee&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div>For the Second Phase of this competition, we rely on the time and expertise of the following\u00a0reviewers:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>* <strong>Mohammad Javad Shafiee<\/strong>, DarwinAI and University of Waterloo<\/div>\n<div>* <strong>Ashkan Ebadi<\/strong>, National Research Council Canada and Concordia University<\/div>\n<div>* <strong>Shikhar Kwatra<\/strong>, IBM<\/div>\n<div>* <strong>Taraneh Khazaei<\/strong>, Microsoft<\/div>\n<div>* <strong>Matt Stergiou<\/strong>, Microsoft<br \/>\n* <strong>Mohammad Ghodratigohar<\/strong>, Microsoft<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>* <strong>Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau<\/strong>, Polytechnique Montr\u00e9al<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Organizing Committee&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;Organizing-Committee&#8221;][vc_column_text]Organizers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IEEE SIGHT Montreal<\/li>\n<li>Vision and Image Processing Research Group (University of Waterloo)<\/li>\n<li>DarwinAI Corp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Collaborator:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National Research Council Canada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Co-hosts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IEEE Young Professionals of Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver Sections<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Student Branches of INRS and Vancouver Simon Fraser University<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Vancouver Circuit and Systems (CAS) Technical Chapter<\/li>\n<li>IEEE WIE (Women In Engineering) Ottawa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-477\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-477 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/logo-hero-ieee-sight-370x165.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"107\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/logo-hero-ieee-sight-370x165.png 370w, https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/logo-hero-ieee-sight.png 418w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/107;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montreal Section<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-479 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/viplogo_0-300x177-1-370x218.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"144\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/viplogo_0-300x177-1-370x218.png 370w, https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/viplogo_0-300x177-1.png 500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 244px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 244\/144;\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-480 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/DarwinAI_WIDE_BLK-2-370x101.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"101\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/DarwinAI_WIDE_BLK-2-370x101.png 370w, https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/DarwinAI_WIDE_BLK-2-768x210.png 768w, https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/DarwinAI_WIDE_BLK-2.png 776w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 370px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 370\/101;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-503 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/National_Research_Council_Canada_The_NRC_and_Siemens_Canada_to_a-370x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"197\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/National_Research_Council_Canada_The_NRC_and_Siemens_Canada_to_a-370x197.jpg 370w, https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/National_Research_Council_Canada_The_NRC_and_Siemens_Canada_to_a-768x408.jpg 768w, https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/National_Research_Council_Canada_The_NRC_and_Siemens_Canada_to_a.jpg 839w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 370px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 370\/197;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Acknowledgment&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;Acknowledgment&#8221;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We wouldn&#8217;t be able to host this competition without the help of our incredible sponsor Microsoft Canada, as well as the IEEE Canada Humanitarian Initiatives Committee and the IEEE Montreal Section.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-470 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/Microsoft_AI_logo_horiz_c-gray_rgb-370x146.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/Microsoft_AI_logo_horiz_c-gray_rgb-370x146.png 370w, https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/Microsoft_AI_logo_horiz_c-gray_rgb-1024x404.png 1024w, https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/Microsoft_AI_logo_horiz_c-gray_rgb-768x303.png 768w, https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/Microsoft_AI_logo_horiz_c-gray_rgb-1536x605.png 1536w, https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/Microsoft_AI_logo_horiz_c-gray_rgb-2048x807.png 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 507px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 507\/200;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;528&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221;][vc_tta_accordion][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Overview&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;Overview&#8221;][vc_column_text]The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, has generated an unprecedented global health crisis, with more than 2.7 million deaths worldwide. Do you want to contribute to the fight &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,76,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-against-covid-19","category-events","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AI against COVID-19: Screening X-ray Images for COVID-19 Infections - IEEE SIGHT Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The ultimate goal is to contribute to the development of highly accurate yet practical AI solutions for detecting COVID-19 cases and, hopefully, accelerating the treatment of those who need it the most. Moreover, this AI for Good initiative will also allow us to achieve at least one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Good Health and Well-being.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AI against COVID-19: Screening X-ray Images for COVID-19 Infections - IEEE SIGHT Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The ultimate goal is to contribute to the development of highly accurate yet practical AI solutions for detecting COVID-19 cases and, hopefully, accelerating the treatment of those who need it the most. Moreover, this AI for Good initiative will also allow us to achieve at least one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Good Health and Well-being.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-08T02:21:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-22T01:51:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/AI-against-COVID-19-v3-website.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"777\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mjdarvishi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"mjdarvishi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"12 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ai-against-covid-19\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ai-against-covid-19\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"mjdarvishi\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\"},\"headline\":\"AI against COVID-19: Screening X-ray Images for COVID-19 Infections\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-08T02:21:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-22T01:51:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ai-against-covid-19\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":2506,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ai-against-covid-19\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/AI-against-COVID-19-v3-website.jpeg\",\"articleSection\":[\"AI against COVID-19\",\"EVENTS\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ai-against-covid-19\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ai-against-covid-19\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ai-against-covid-19\\\/\",\"name\":\"AI against COVID-19: Screening X-ray Images for COVID-19 Infections - IEEE SIGHT Montreal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ai-against-covid-19\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ai-against-covid-19\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/AI-against-COVID-19-v3-website.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-08T02:21:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-22T01:51:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\"},\"description\":\"The ultimate goal is to contribute to the development of highly accurate yet practical AI solutions for detecting COVID-19 cases and, hopefully, accelerating the treatment of those who need it the most. Moreover, this AI for Good initiative will also allow us to achieve at least one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Good Health and Well-being.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ai-against-covid-19\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ai-against-covid-19\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ai-against-covid-19\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/AI-against-COVID-19-v3-website.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/AI-against-COVID-19-v3-website.jpeg\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":777},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ai-against-covid-19\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"AI against COVID-19: Screening X-ray Images for COVID-19 Infections\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/\",\"name\":\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal\",\"description\":\"The official website of IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Montreal\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\",\"name\":\"mjdarvishi\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"mjdarvishi\"},\"sameAs\":[\"Mohammad Javad Darvishi Bayazi\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/author\\\/mjdarvishi\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"AI against COVID-19: Screening X-ray Images for COVID-19 Infections - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","description":"The ultimate goal is to contribute to the development of highly accurate yet practical AI solutions for detecting COVID-19 cases and, hopefully, accelerating the treatment of those who need it the most. Moreover, this AI for Good initiative will also allow us to achieve at least one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Good Health and Well-being.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"AI against COVID-19: Screening X-ray Images for COVID-19 Infections - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","og_description":"The ultimate goal is to contribute to the development of highly accurate yet practical AI solutions for detecting COVID-19 cases and, hopefully, accelerating the treatment of those who need it the most. Moreover, this AI for Good initiative will also allow us to achieve at least one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Good Health and Well-being.","og_url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/","og_site_name":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal","article_published_time":"2021-05-08T02:21:51+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-08-22T01:51:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1600,"height":777,"url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/AI-against-COVID-19-v3-website.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"mjdarvishi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"mjdarvishi","Est. reading time":"12 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/"},"author":{"name":"mjdarvishi","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a"},"headline":"AI against COVID-19: Screening X-ray Images for COVID-19 Infections","datePublished":"2021-05-08T02:21:51+00:00","dateModified":"2021-08-22T01:51:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/"},"wordCount":2506,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/AI-against-COVID-19-v3-website.jpeg","articleSection":["AI against COVID-19","EVENTS"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/","url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/","name":"AI against COVID-19: Screening X-ray Images for COVID-19 Infections - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/AI-against-COVID-19-v3-website.jpeg","datePublished":"2021-05-08T02:21:51+00:00","dateModified":"2021-08-22T01:51:48+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a"},"description":"The ultimate goal is to contribute to the development of highly accurate yet practical AI solutions for detecting COVID-19 cases and, hopefully, accelerating the treatment of those who need it the most. Moreover, this AI for Good initiative will also allow us to achieve at least one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Good Health and Well-being.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/AI-against-COVID-19-v3-website.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/AI-against-COVID-19-v3-website.jpeg","width":1600,"height":777},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ai-against-covid-19\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"AI against COVID-19: Screening X-ray Images for COVID-19 Infections"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#website","url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/","name":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal","description":"The official website of IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Montreal","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a","name":"mjdarvishi","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"mjdarvishi"},"sameAs":["Mohammad Javad Darvishi Bayazi"],"url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/author\/mjdarvishi\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":386,"date":"2020-10-26T01:07:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T05:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/?p=386"},"modified":"2020-10-26T01:38:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T05:38:02","slug":"announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Complementary Access to GHTC 2020 Plenary Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE GHTC 2020)<\/strong> is an international flagship conference sharing practical technology-enabled solutions addressing the needs of underserved populations and resource-constrained environments around the world in the context of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603769961018000&amp;usg=AFQjCNExZZb-wTgVfBrgof-SbL3O4fWRGQ\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">United Nations Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>\u00a0(UN SDGs).<\/p>\n<p>GHTC 2020 will have an exciting and varied program of workshops, panels, keynotes and technical presentations.<\/p>\n<p>GHTC 2020 takes place online from\u00a0<strong>Thursday, October 29 through mid-afternoon Sunday, November 1. <\/strong>See the\u00a0<strong>preliminary program schedule<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/program\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603769961018000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFoAIsQ5a2uP8QWDQRerdekWfsmJg\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The GHTC 2020 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce\u00a0<strong>FREE ACCESS to GHTC 2020 PLENARY SESSIONS<\/strong>\u00a0<i><b>(FREE Registration required)<\/b><\/i> See the announcement\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/2020\/access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/2020\/access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603769961018000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHE9NsI3rsotx5HZAz00EPEs3WOmQ\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">here<\/a>. (Full attendee registration is also available, details at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603769961018000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG_hOAHKTVC8zZD4S4G6hPcoa1sKw\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLENARY PROGRAM<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Conference Overview<\/strong> (Thursday, Oct 29, 1 pm PDT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overview of GHTC 2020 Virtual Program, technical sessions and navigation mechanics with Conference Chair, Paul Cunningham, Vice-Chair, Ed Perkins, and Program Chair Pritpal Singh.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Opening Session with IEEE Presidents<\/strong> (Oct 29, 3:30 pm PDT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LIVE: Remarks on IEEE&#8217;s role in Humanitarian Activities by 2020 IEEE President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/2020\/toshio-fukuda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/2020\/toshio-fukuda\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603769961018000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH1g3yb5qxz-_vFroe1Yns_tDFyRA\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Toshio Fukuda<\/a>\u00a0and 2021 President-elect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/2020\/kathy-land\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/2020\/kathy-land\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603769961018000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGATbgjm_XiEvKfouHoR7pfE9Ei6w\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Susan (Kathy) Land<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/student-poster-competition-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/student-poster-competition-2020\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603769961018000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF14xZ-yMPx_GqQsMSKwz71izf13g\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\"><strong>Student Poster Contest<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Oct 29 5pm PDT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our 3rd Student Poster Contest will be held online Thursday afternoon following the paper sessions. Cash prizes will be awarded. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 19-October.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Energy Panel: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/program\/special-sessions\/energy-panel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/program\/special-sessions\/energy-panel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603769961018000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHQt32dccUVNBuU0Km6wy7diCNUtg\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Technology-enabled climb up the demand-driven energy ladder: Interoperability, Growth, All-access<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong> (Friday, Oct. 30, 8 am PDT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ensuring universal, affordable and sustainable energy access is one of the biggest societal challenges of our time. Decentralized, bottom-up approaches, such as solar home systems and microgrids, have emerged as a response to shortcomings of the centralized grid approach, but affordability, scalability, path to growth and long-term sustainability remain a challenge.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/program\/special-sessions\/panel-on-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/program\/special-sessions\/panel-on-covid-19\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603769961018000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFd7q42u82SlFfyjyJLdohCvoSkYw\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\"><strong>IEEE HAC Panel on COVID-19<\/strong><\/a> (Saturday, Oct. 31, 10 am PDT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How HAC\/SIGHT responded to the COVID pandemic \u2013 vision and process improvements with examples of some funded projects and building collaboration opportunities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/program\/special-sessions\/ghtc-10th-anniversary\/https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/program\/special-sessions\/ghtc-10th-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/program\/special-sessions\/ghtc-10th-anniversary\/https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/program\/special-sessions\/ghtc-10th-anniversary\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603769961018000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHCBODQWrUmO8BRaRae0LCWvKn9cQ\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\"><strong>GHTC 10th Anniversary<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Oct 31 Noon PDT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GHTC 2020 celebrates the 10th anniversary of IEEE GHTC. The anniversary program will consist of some remarks and two-panel discussions, one on the evolution of GHTC and the other on IEEE&#8217;s role in Humanitarian Technology.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Closing Keynote<\/strong>\u00a0(Nov 1 Noon\u00a0<strong>PST &#8211; time change<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/2020\/melissa-sassi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/2020\/melissa-sassi\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603769961018000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHuvCOAe_UVfNTk1DXS83rtHGfW-Q\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Melissa Sassi<\/a>, IEEE Digital Intelligence Working Group<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/m\/243512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/m\/243512&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603769961018000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG79pXm2uNK2dUYOlN_rWquWQen-g\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ci6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/hecNhzxBOa7hL92ExpsccPBrPVo2EALv02SBh4bdkNr6jY8Zv2zJ3s79it3C3oehpqoPLU9E7mWE4YHOqvAFwBAtC4xbPv-c3fJpautO20hIfRmgZYS-FnBivan1=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/ieeeghtc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2012\/01\/btn-reg-down.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"38\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 172px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 172\/38;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>GHTC 2020 is sponsored by IEEE Region 6, IEEE Seattle Section and IEEE SSIT (Society on Social Implications of Technology) with technical sponsorship by IEEE-USA, IEEE CES, EMBS, MTT-S, PES and IEEE Smart Village.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a010th\u00a0IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE GHTC 2020) is an international flagship conference sharing practical technology-enabled solutions addressing the needs of underserved populations and resource-constrained environments around the world in the context of the\u00a0United Nations Sustainable Development Goals\u00a0(UN SDGs).<br \/>\nGHTC 2020 will have an exciting and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[64,62,20,69],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-conference","tag-humanitarian-technology","tag-ieee","tag-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Announcing Complementary Access to GHTC 2020 Plenary Sessions - IEEE SIGHT Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Announcing Complementary Access to GHTC 2020 Plenary Sessions - IEEE SIGHT Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The\u00a010th\u00a0IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE GHTC 2020) is an international flagship conference sharing practical technology-enabled solutions addressing the needs of underserved populations and resource-constrained environments around the world in the context of the\u00a0United Nations Sustainable Development Goals\u00a0(UN SDGs). GHTC 2020 will have an exciting and ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-26T05:07:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-10-26T05:38:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/Untitled.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"874\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mjdarvishi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"mjdarvishi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"mjdarvishi\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\"},\"headline\":\"Announcing Complementary Access to GHTC 2020 Plenary Sessions\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-26T05:07:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-26T05:38:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":393,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/Untitled.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Conference\",\"Humanitarian Technology\",\"IEEE\",\"News\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\\\/\",\"name\":\"Announcing Complementary Access to GHTC 2020 Plenary Sessions - IEEE SIGHT Montreal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/Untitled.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-26T05:07:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-26T05:38:02+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/Untitled.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/Untitled.png\",\"width\":874,\"height\":350},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Announcing Complementary Access to GHTC 2020 Plenary Sessions\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/\",\"name\":\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal\",\"description\":\"The official website of IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Montreal\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\",\"name\":\"mjdarvishi\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"mjdarvishi\"},\"sameAs\":[\"Mohammad Javad Darvishi Bayazi\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/author\\\/mjdarvishi\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Announcing Complementary Access to GHTC 2020 Plenary Sessions - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Announcing Complementary Access to GHTC 2020 Plenary Sessions - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","og_description":"The\u00a010th\u00a0IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (IEEE GHTC 2020) is an international flagship conference sharing practical technology-enabled solutions addressing the needs of underserved populations and resource-constrained environments around the world in the context of the\u00a0United Nations Sustainable Development Goals\u00a0(UN SDGs). GHTC 2020 will have an exciting and ...","og_url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/","og_site_name":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal","article_published_time":"2020-10-26T05:07:10+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-10-26T05:38:02+00:00","og_image":[{"width":874,"height":350,"url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/Untitled.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"mjdarvishi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"mjdarvishi","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/"},"author":{"name":"mjdarvishi","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a"},"headline":"Announcing Complementary Access to GHTC 2020 Plenary Sessions","datePublished":"2020-10-26T05:07:10+00:00","dateModified":"2020-10-26T05:38:02+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/"},"wordCount":393,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/Untitled.png","keywords":["Conference","Humanitarian Technology","IEEE","News"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/","url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/","name":"Announcing Complementary Access to GHTC 2020 Plenary Sessions - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/Untitled.png","datePublished":"2020-10-26T05:07:10+00:00","dateModified":"2020-10-26T05:38:02+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/Untitled.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/Untitled.png","width":874,"height":350},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/announcing-complementary-access-to-ghtc-2020-plenary-sessions\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Announcing Complementary Access to GHTC 2020 Plenary Sessions"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#website","url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/","name":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal","description":"The official website of IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Montreal","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a","name":"mjdarvishi","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"mjdarvishi"},"sameAs":["Mohammad Javad Darvishi Bayazi"],"url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/author\/mjdarvishi\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":55,"date":"2019-01-26T16:34:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T21:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dci-template.dcistage.wpengine.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2021-10-03T17:26:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T21:26:56","slug":"ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](Version en fran\u00e7ais ci-dessous)<\/p>\n<p>Would you like\u2026<\/p>\n<p>To create solutions to specific problems?<br \/>\nTo have a social impact and contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals?<br \/>\nTo expand your network?<\/p>\n<p>IEEE SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) of the Montreal Section is looking for volunteers! We need mainly software developers, students or professionals, in order to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Help build the health digital platforms of the future (mobile, Web), in collaboration with Hacking Health;<\/li>\n<li>Develop an age-friendly mobile application to inform senior people about social and physical activities, and availability of volunteers to accompany or assist them in their everyday tasks;<\/li>\n<li>Create the Web page of our group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other volunteering opportunities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Secretary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interested? Do not hesitate to contact us at &#115;&#x69;g&#x68;&#x74;&#46;&#x6d;o&#110;&#x74;&#114;&#x65;a&#108;&#x40;g&#x6d;a&#105;&#x6c;&#46;&#x63;&#x6f;&#109;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>======<\/p>\n<p>Aimeriez-vous\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Cr\u00e9er des solutions \u00e0 des probl\u00e8mes concrets?<br \/>\nAvoir un impact social et contribuer aux Objectifs de D\u00e9veloppement Durable de l\u2019ONU?<br \/>\nFaire des rencontres enrichissantes?<br \/>\nIEEE SIGHT (groupe d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat sp\u00e9cial en technologie humanitaire) de la Section IEEE Montr\u00e9al est en qu\u00eate des b\u00e9n\u00e9voles! Nous avons besoin principalement de d\u00e9veloppeurs logiciel, \u00e9tudiants ou professionnels, afin de:<\/p>\n<p>b\u00e2tir les plate-formes num\u00e9riques de sant\u00e9 de l\u2019avenir (mobile, Web), en collaboration avec Hacking Health;<br \/>\nd\u00e9velopper une application mobile adapt\u00e9e aux personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es pour les informer sur des activit\u00e9s physiques et sociales, ainsi que sur la disponibilit\u00e9 de b\u00e9n\u00e9voles pour les accompagner ou les aider dans leurs t\u00e2ches quotidiennes;<br \/>\ncr\u00e9er la page Web de notre groupe.<br \/>\nD\u2019autres opportunit\u00e9s de b\u00e9n\u00e9volat:<\/p>\n<p>Secr\u00e9taire<\/p>\n<p>Int\u00e9ress\u00e9(e)s? N\u2019h\u00e9sitez pas \u00e0 nous contacter \u00e0 s&#105;&#x67;&#x68;t&#46;&#109;&#x6f;&#x6e;t&#114;&#101;&#x61;&#x6c;&#64;&#103;&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;l&#46;&#x63;&#x6f;m.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec mi est, tristique et vulputate ut, vulputate non nibh. Curabitur dictum commodo dolor dignissim fermentum. Sed vehicula felis suscipit elementum egestas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,38],"tags":[28,20,26,27],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-join_us-en","category-news-en","tag-collaboration","tag-ieee","tag-join","tag-sight"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2019 - IEEE SIGHT Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"IEEE SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) of the Montreal Section is looking for volunteers! We need mainly software developers, students or professionals.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2019 - IEEE SIGHT Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"IEEE SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) of the Montreal Section is looking for volunteers! We need mainly software developers, students or professionals.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-26T21:34:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-03T21:26:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/shutterstock_117742597-1024x683.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mjdarvishi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"mjdarvishi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"mjdarvishi\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\"},\"headline\":\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2019\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-26T21:34:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-03T21:26:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":303,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/shutterstock_117742597.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"collaboration\",\"IEEE\",\"join\",\"sight\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Join_us\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\\\/\",\"name\":\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2019 - IEEE SIGHT Montreal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/shutterstock_117742597.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-26T21:34:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-03T21:26:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\"},\"description\":\"IEEE SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) of the Montreal Section is looking for volunteers! We need mainly software developers, students or professionals.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/shutterstock_117742597.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/31\\\/shutterstock_117742597.jpg\",\"width\":5616,\"height\":3744},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2019\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/\",\"name\":\"IEEE SIGHT Montreal\",\"description\":\"The official website of IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Montreal\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a\",\"name\":\"mjdarvishi\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"mjdarvishi\"},\"sameAs\":[\"Mohammad Javad Darvishi Bayazi\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/r7.ieee.org\\\/montreal-sight\\\/author\\\/mjdarvishi\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2019 - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","description":"IEEE SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) of the Montreal Section is looking for volunteers! We need mainly software developers, students or professionals.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2019 - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","og_description":"IEEE SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) of the Montreal Section is looking for volunteers! We need mainly software developers, students or professionals.","og_url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/","og_site_name":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal","article_published_time":"2019-01-26T21:34:53+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-10-03T21:26:56+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":683,"url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/shutterstock_117742597-1024x683.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"mjdarvishi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"mjdarvishi","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/"},"author":{"name":"mjdarvishi","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a"},"headline":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2019","datePublished":"2019-01-26T21:34:53+00:00","dateModified":"2021-10-03T21:26:56+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/"},"wordCount":303,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/shutterstock_117742597.jpg","keywords":["collaboration","IEEE","join","sight"],"articleSection":["Join_us","News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/","url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/","name":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2019 - IEEE SIGHT Montreal","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/shutterstock_117742597.jpg","datePublished":"2019-01-26T21:34:53+00:00","dateModified":"2021-10-03T21:26:56+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a"},"description":"IEEE SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) of the Montreal Section is looking for volunteers! We need mainly software developers, students or professionals.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/shutterstock_117742597.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/shutterstock_117742597.jpg","width":5616,"height":3744},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/ieee-sight-montreal-call-for-volunteers\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal Call For Volunteers 2019"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#website","url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/","name":"IEEE SIGHT Montreal","description":"The official website of IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Montreal","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/#\/schema\/person\/1ad1ef26cd4dcea6e2453c564c55d76a","name":"mjdarvishi","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/772c0ca1d96639878d262b935071c540b941fb21cd87c997738b7d4157922464?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"mjdarvishi"},"sameAs":["Mohammad Javad Darvishi Bayazi"],"url":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/author\/mjdarvishi\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r7.ieee.org\/montreal-sight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]