Mission Statement From:
Prof. Stefano Bettocchi (Candidate for Vice President)
After the downward spiral the Society experienced before Kauala Lumpur
2004 and its partial revival between 2004 and 2007 it is now the time
for major changes to make the Society competitive on the International
scene. If no fundamental changes will be made the future of the Society
is in jeopardy.
Over the last years I have witnessed the difficulties our Society has
to communicate and make decisions not withstanding the good will and
the hard work of the people involved. In my opinion most of the
problems are related to the archaic and out-dated structure of our
Society including ExCo and Board: as an example I cite our Bylaws that
have not been changed since 1996 still carrying the Haarlem address and
do not state the legal form of the Society…
I would therefore suggest, if the Board accepts me as the new
Vice-President, to take on the occasion to rewrite the Bylaws, with the
full support of the incoming President, to incorporate fundamental
updates and changes. I therefore commit myself :
- To work hard to find financial support to give the necessary stability
to the Society. We have to incorporate new permanent Sponsors to
guarantee a stable early income for our Society not to depend on
Congress income and Membership dues alone. I have been quite busy in
this sector preparing the Bari Congress and I therefore know that there
are Companies willing to make the step on condition that the Society is
restructured and gains stability
- If given the opportunity, to elaborate the idea to assure a yearly
stable Congress income of about 30.000 $ to be paid to the Society on a
date set by contract, trough a PCO, before the Congress. This amount of
money has to be calculated, also, reflecting the decisions taken in
this matter by other large Endoscopic Societies in order to be able to
set-up joint-ventures with these Societies
- To try and enhance the communication between ExCo and Board. We need to
simplify the decision-maker structure in order to shorten the time
actually needed for any valuable decision
- To use my strong relationship with some key-members of the AAGL, the
actual President and vice-President of the ESGE, the EcCo of the SIAEGI
and other well-known Endoscopic Society, to establish an International
network of Endoscopic Society
- To offer to our member new features for training and e-learning,
using all the power related to Internet and to the actual web-based
audio-visual facilities
This process will need the collaboration of all our Board and members
to get results in a relative short time, re-qualifying our
Society.
