Participants at the 45th meeting of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Administrative Council (AC) in late September discussed the organization’s role in advancing amateur radio going forward.

IARU President Tim Ellam, VE6SH/G4HUA, who chaired the AC meeting in Lima, Peru, observed that the IARU and amateur radio are reaching what he called “an inflection point.” He asserted that amateur radio is changing, but the IARU and its member-societies are not.

Ellam’s remarks prefaced a wide-ranging discussion of the challenges to be overcome if the IARU and amateur radio itself are to remain relevant.

After several hours of discussion the AC agreed on the following four top-level headings to identify the challenges that must be faced:

What is amateur radio?
IARU and member-society roles
Recruitment – into amateur radio and IARU Finance

The AC also agreed that it is essential to involve younger people from outside the AC in determining how to address these challenges. The regions were asked to identify people able to take ownership of these topics.

ARRL Story - http://www.arrl.org/news/iaru-and-amateur-radio-are-reaching-an-inflection-point

Point 10.13 - in the same PERU ACM document as the earlier story - http://www.iaru.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/13073366/2019_summary_record.pdf

Previous ACM meeting summaries - http://www.iaru.org/administrative-council-meetings.html