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

Fri Jan 25 21:46:03 UTC 2013

Terrific.
tvol

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Herb Lainchbury <herb at dynamic-solutions.com
> wrote:

> +1 to all three.  excellent.
>
> Thanks for this Mike.
> Herb
>
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> 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
>>
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