Guidelines

Council Rights & Obligations • Operate independently and Jointly with AIEC • Use a separate account for business and operation • a DCEA board member can be a committee member or its director • a committee member or its director needs NOT be a DCEA board member • No member number limit • No committee number limit • Welcome members of other organizations to join • more than one activities annually by each committee • Automatically eliminated if no activities for 3 Consecutive years, or after one term. Guideline for the organization of Tech Council and its committees: • There is NO member number limit or requirement for each committee; • Each committee must have one director; • Each committee can have up to 2 deputy directors (or no deputy directors); • The directors should be either leading experts in the corresponding field, or have the capability and enthusiasm of organizing and leading the experts, or both; • There is NO race or nationality requirement to be a committee member; • A person can be in more than one committee. • Each specialized committee recruits its members independently and keeps the Council Secretariat informed/updated of all members' names and profiles or via electronic registration. • Each committee can have meetings and host events independently with the notice from the Secretariat of the Technical Council. • Each committee should keep and submit its meeting minutes to the Secretariat of the Technical Council; • There is no limit for terms of office for committee members (i.e. the specialists in various fields) • Each term of office for a committee or council officer is 3 years; consecutive office terms are allowed; • The committee directors are nominated and elected by the committee members; the election will be supervised and monitored by the council Secretariat • All officers are appointed by the council Secretariat.