ISSMGE Bulletin – Volume 3 Issue 1 March 2009

A Message from the Board Member

By Professor Osamu Kusakabe

ISSMGE is a large international learned society which has a membership of 80 member societies with over 18,000 individual members as of March 2009. The Board as policy making and administrative body is primary responsible for communicating closely with officers of these member societies on the issues that the Council decides, as well as with chairpersons of Technical Committee on technical activities.

The present Board strongly believes that we are also responsible for improving the communication with over 18,000 individual members. To improve the communication with the individual members and to promote the communication among the individual members is of essence for future of ISSMGE, not only information and knowledge dissemination for the benefit to the individual members, but also bridging the gap between academicians and practitioners, and integrating senior and young generations in geotechnical community, which would create new areas of science and technology.

Soon after establishing the present Board at Osaka Conference in September 2005, President Pedro Pinto called a preliminary Board meeting and proposed the establishment of Task Force on Communications with possible lunch of ISSMBE Bulletin as the upgrade version of Newsletter. I was appointed for the task of lunching and editing/publishing ISSMGE Bulletin. My former student, Dr. Pongsakorn Punrattanasin, has provided me indispensable support for the task.

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