[od-discuss] 3 nominations for Open Definition Advisory Council membership

[Mike Linksvayer]

2 weeks having passed, with (enthusiastic) +1s and no dissent: warmly
welcome Tariq, Federico, and Andrew to
http://opendefinition.org/advisory-council/

Best,
Mike

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have three superb suggested additions to the AC. First, the obvious FAQs:
> * Existing members at http://opendefinition.org/advisory-council/
> * There is no limit on membership; process for license [dis]approval
> designed to encourage consensus among expert-and-committed-to-open AC
> members, without lots of time commitment; increase in size doesn't
> raise quorum; see http://opendefinition.org/licenses/process/
> * Approval for adding AC members is the same:  at least two Advisory
> Council members approve nomination(s), and at least 75% of Advisory
> Council members expressing an opinion if any dissent.
> * Proximate reason for these nominations, now: much OD work in recent
> past and upcoming has and will be Public Sector Information related;
> getting more expertise on board specific to this domain is an obvious
> win. Credit to Jonathan Gray for prompting on this.
> * All 3 are subscribed to this list and have agreed to have their
> names put forward.
>
> Please +1 nominations, either all 3 or individually, as you wish.
> Questions and dissent also welcome. :)
>
> Nominee bios below. I suspect many of you have met Tariq at OKFest; I
> vouch for Federico's excellence personally through years of working
> with him at Creative Commons; Andrew has been actively participating
> in Open Definition discussions for some time now, and also just joined
> OKF's overall advisory board.
>
> Tariq Khokhar is the World Bank's Open Data Evangelist. His interests
> lie where technology, transparency, poverty and data meet. He guides
> the World Bank's Open Data Initiative and is responsible for internal
> and external strategy, outreach and communications, and supporting
> client countries with their own open data programs. Prior to joining
> the Bank, Tariq led innovation and community engagement work at
> Aidinfo and the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). He
> was formerly a director of Bond UK and the Chief Development Officer
> of Aptivate. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, has
> close relationships in the global Open Data and Open Government
> communities and currently lives in Washington DC.
>
> Federico Morando is an economist, with interdisciplinary research
> interests focused on the intersection between law, economics and
> technology. His research activity at the Nexa Center mainly concerns
> new models of production and sharing of digital contents. He also
> taught intellectual property and competition law at Bocconi University
> in Milan and he is an associate editor of the IJCLP. He has an
> undergraduate degree in Economics from Bocconi Univ. and a master’s
> degree in Economic theory and econometrics from the Univ. of Toulouse.
> He holds a Ph.D. in Institutions, Economics and Law from the Univ. of
> Turin and Ghent with a dissertation about software interoperability.
> He joined the working group of the Nexa Center at the beginning of its
> first year of formal activity. From Dec. 2012, he leads the Creative
> Commons Italy project and he is a member of the Open Team of Regione
> Piemonte that launched and steers the development of the first Italian
> open government data portal. From Dec. 2008, in his position as the
> first Managing Director of the Center, he works closely with the
> Directors to define staff and project goals and to coordinate the
> Center’s fellows.
>
> Andrew Stott was the UK’s first Director for Transparency and Digital
> Engagement. He led the work to open government data and create
> “data.gov.uk”; and after the 2010 Election he led the policy
> development and implementation of the new Government’s commitments on
> Transparency of central and local government. Following his formal
> retirement in December 2010 he was appointed to the UK Transparency
> Board to continue to advise UK Ministers on open data and e-government
> policy. He also advises other governments on Open Data both
> bilaterally and through the World Bank and the World Wide Web
> Foundation. He is an expert adviser on Open Data strategy to the EU
> Citadel On The Move programme and co-chairs the OKFN Open Government
> Data Working Group.
>
> Mike