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TO THE MEMBERS OF ACM



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By Yannis Ioannidis
Communications of the ACM, February 2023, Vol. 66 No. 2, Page 5
10.1145/3578649
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Credit: University of Athens



This is an update on the efforts of the ACM Executive Committee and Council to
draft a longer-term strategic plan for our organization. At the core of our
discussions have been critical and urgent issues raised by members during the
Q&A process that ran during the recent ACM General Election, which also covered
those I had presented in my candidacy statement. In my answers during that
process, I promised to establish several Presidential Task Forces (PTFs) to
investigate the issues raised and recommend concrete actions to address them.
Considering the needs and priorities of ACM itself, the broader computing
community, and society at large, the ACM Council has now endorsed 10 PTFs as the
core dimensions of our strategic work. The strategic plan that will result from
all PTFs together has been called ACM 4.0, an analogy to ACM entering the fourth
quarter-century of its life. The main objectives of the PTFs are briefly
described here.

Three PTFs address issues of ACM Membership:

 1. Membership Model: Exploring new membership models that create the sense of a
    unified large community but still convey the feeling of "home" to each
    member, offering different benefits that are meaningful to different
    constituencies. Identifying membership models that will entice all those who
    benefit from ACM to become members and will inspire those who are members to
    become volunteers.
 2. Globalization: Exploring different pathways toward geographic diversity at
    all possible levels: election and award candidates, volunteer leaders, board
    and committee members, and members in general. Investigating the formation
    of additional regional councils or other forms of governance structures that
    will collectively cover the world.
 3. Youthification: Exploring different pathways toward age diversity, with
    emphasis on the younger generation, at all appropriate levels: board and
    committee members and members in general. Identifying engaging activities to
    attract the pre-college generation to computing.

Two PTFs address issues of services to society at large:

 1. Code of Ethics: Establishing mechanisms to promulgate the ACM Code of
    Ethics, familiarize our community with the essentials of the Code, and
    educate it on ethical issues in general. Investigating how the Code, which
    applies to individuals, may become relevant to companies and other legal
    entities as well for the benefit of all.
 2. UN Sustainable Development Goals: Exploring appropriate mechanisms for ACM
    members to offer their computing technologies expertise in the context of
    multidisciplinary efforts toward achieving the 17 UN SDGs (and the Paris
    Agreement on Climate Change).

Two PTFs address issues of services to ACM members:

 1. Open Science: Establishing services to help researchers operate according to
    the Open Science paradigm (which includes Open Access as an important
    component) and the demands it brings, for example, reproducibility of
    experiments, transparency throughout the research life cycle, and new forms
    of scholarly communication and reviewing.
 2. Products and Services Portfolio: Taking a fresh look at the overall
    portfolio of ACM products and services, through the lens of the continuously
    evolving and diversified needs of different parts of the computing
    community, and examining issues such as the SIG structure, DL functionality,
    career development, mentoring, and others.

One PTF addresses issues of ACM finances:

 1. Financial Model: Designing a new financial model that will ensure the
    prosperity of ACM, in the context of a potentially new membership model and
    a renewed portfolio of products and services, in the fast-approaching era of
    ACM Open.

Two PTFs address issues of ACM internal processes:

 1. Regional Offices: Exploring the establishment of regional ACM offices around
    the world. Identifying the services to be offered by regional staff.
    Establishing a process for optimizing the choice of location and size of
    each office based on relevant parameters.
 2. Bylaws: Reexamining some fundamental aspects of our current bylaws that
    affect the effectiveness of ACM as a scientific professional society,
    including the lengths and limits of the terms served by leaders in key
    offices, and the structure of the Council with respect to its
    representativeness of all ACM member constituencies.

There are several bilateral connections and dependencies between these PTFs as
well as between them, the currently established Councils and Boards, the SIGs,
and staff, affecting their individual timing and mutual interactions. The goal
is for all PTFs to have delivered their reports by early fall. Recruitment of
PTF chairs and members is under way, proceeding both by invitation and through
an open call for willing qualified members. I am asking all of you to step
forward and contribute your time and expertise to this important strategic
effort. ACM 4.0 will be what we all together make it to be!

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AUTHOR

Yannis Ioannidis is President of ACM and professor of Informatics and
Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and
affiliated faculty at Athena Research Center, Greece.

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