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

Fri Jan 25 22:13:30 UTC 2013

Agreed. All three +1.

     Peter

Peter Suber
bit.ly/suber-gplus

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Timothy Vollmer
<tvol at creativecommons.org>wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>> 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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