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Member Societies seek inputs for 2021 Workshop
· General Conference, Spectrum · Sylvain, F4GKR

Member Societies taking part in the IARU 2021 Workshop program are now working on their SWOT analyses. 

The two largest societies in IARU Region 1, DARC and RSGB, have asked their members and others interested to contribute to the work they are doing to prepare for the Region 1 Workshop in October concerning the future of amateur radio and the role of IARU and its Member Societies through an on-line survey. For radio amateurs in Germany and UK, the opportunity to contribute can be found at https://​www​.darc​.de/​d​e​r​-​c​l​u​b​/​v​o​-​a​r​/​v​o​r​s​t​a​n​d​/​i​a​r​u​-​u​m​f​r​a​ge/ and www​.rsgb​.org/​s​u​r​vey respectively. Both surveys close 23rd May.

Other societies are working with amater radio groups in their countries in differing ways to develop views about the current state of amateur radio which will provide inputs to their work on the SWOT anayses.

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Amendments to the IARU Region 1 Constitution
· General Conference, News · Hans, PB2T

Following approval by delegates at the Virtual General Conference in October 2020, proposals to amend the Region 1 Constitution were put to a vote of all Member Societies in December 2020. The changes principally covered two areas:

  • Introduction of the facility to hold virtual general conferences, subject to prior agreement of Member Societies
  • Changes to the wording of the Constitution to make it gender-neutral

The voting has now closed. Under Article 7.1 of the Constitution, two-thirds of those Member Societies entitled to vote need to vote in favour for changes to be made to the Constitution. The number entitled to vote is 85 and therefore 57 votes in favour are needed.
The results of the vote, which have been checked and validated by the Chairman of Committee C2 at the VGC, are:

  • For the resolution: 67 votes
  • Against the resolution: 3 votes
  • Abstentions: 1 vote
  • Invalid votes: 1

A total of 72 member societies voted of the 85 possible.

The proposed changes are therefore approved. The revised Constitution has been placed on the Region 1 website at https://​www​.iaru​-r1​.org/​r​e​f​e​r​e​n​c​e​/​r​e​g​i​o​n​a​l​-​c​o​n​s​t​i​t​u​t​i​on/

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Workshop 2021 : pre-work meeting
· General Conference · Alex, IV3KKW

The IARU Region 1 2021 Workshop delegates gathered virtually on April 21st to officially start the pre-work which will lead the MS to the next October workshop programme addressing the future of amateur radio.

Over 100 delegates representing their MS were present to jointly work for a strategy plan using some appropriate tools to collect important data and then draft a first document to be used in the next sessions.

The first step is to understand what are the current strengths and weaknesses of amateur radio so we can consider how to address the activities for the next future.

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Workshop programme begins next week
· General Conference · Hans, PB2T

The IARU Region 1 2021 Workshop programme begins next week. Delegates will be gathering virtually on 21 April for the first event in the 2021 workshop programme addressing the future of amateur radio, IARU and its member societies. Over 100 delegates are registered for the event which starts a series of meetings and discussions about future direction. Any society which has not yet registered and wishes to do so should contact the Region 1 Secretary More information can be found at https://​conf​.iaru​-r1​.org

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