In addition, IEEE staff members offer support services such as orientations, user guides and ongoing telephone assistance. We look forward to the enhancements being planned that will provide membership information with greater accuracy, in a shorter time and with less staff involvement. The IEEE Geographical Roster is also available via the Web. The roster provides contact information for Regions, Sections, Chapters, Student Branches and other IEEE organizational unit volunteers. About 10,000 members are authorized to access the roster using an IEEE Web account, including volunteers whose names appear in the roster, members of the IEEE Executive Committee, the IEEE Regional Activities Board or its committees, and presidents of IEEE Societies.
Updates take place on a bi-weekly basis instead of the biannual schedule of previous years.
Since it first became available on the Web in November 2000, the number of users of the roster has exploded. The number of visits has grown from 19 in November to 437 in January.