Doreen Bogdan-Martin, secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union, was named the recipient of this yr’s IEEE President’s Award. She is being acknowledged for “distinguished leadership and contributions to the public.”
The IEEE member has championed international connectivity and digital inclusion for greater than 30 years. Bogdan-Martin is the primary girl to move the ITU, a U.N. company headquartered in Geneva that helps set coverage associated to data and communication expertise (ICT).
“It is my honor to recognize you as a transformational leader and an IEEE member for the commitment you made to bridge the digital divide globally,” Saifur Rahman, IEEE president and CEO, stated in a information launch in regards to the award. IEEE sponsors the annual award.
Leading efforts to bridge the digital divide
Bogdan-Martin started her profession in 1989 as a telecom coverage specialist within the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, in Washington, D.C. The company advises the White House on telecommunications and knowledge coverage points.
She left there after 5 years to affix the newly created ITU telecommunication improvement sector as a coverage analyst. The sector creates insurance policies, rules, coaching packages, and monetary methods for creating nations. She was promoted in 2005 to move the company’s regulatory and market surroundings division, managing packages on regulatory reform, economics, and finance. She additionally suggested governments on ICT reform and coverage points.
Three years later, Bogdan-Martin was appointed chief of the ITU’s Strategic Planning and Membership division, probably the most senior place within the basic secretariat. She suggested the secretary-general on the time, Hamadoun Touré. In addition she oversaw the group’s membership, company communications, and exterior affairs departments.
In 2010 Bogdan-Martin helped set up the U.N. Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, the place she served as govt director, advocating for common, reasonably priced broadband. She helped create the ITU’s youth technique, which goals to have interaction children within the U.N.’s sustainable improvement agenda by packages and occasions. Its objectives are to finish poverty, shield the planet, and enhance the prospects of communities all over the world.
Bogdan-Martin organized the Equals Global Partnership for Gender Equality within the Digital Age and initiated a collaboration with UNICEF on the Giga initiative to attach faculties to the Internet.
As an International Gender Champion, she works to interrupt down limitations in science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic. She is a member of the World Economic Forum 2030 imaginative and prescient leaders group and an affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, which research our on-line world dynamics, norms, and requirements. She can be an beginner radio operator, whose name signal is KD2JTX.
“I’m deeply humbled by this recognition,” Bogdan-Martin stated within the information launch about receiving the IEEE award. “I look forward to closely collaborating, cooperating, and strengthening the partnership between our institutions.”
She obtained the award on 5 May on the 2023 IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony, held on the Hilton Atlanta.