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

Fri Jan 25 22:39:44 UTC 2013

Couldn't +1 more.

By the way, having mentioned it elsewhere: I will start in a few weeks
as Deputy GC at the Wikimedia Foundation. I hope we can find many
opportunities to work together in that capability.

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Peter Suber <peters at earlham.edu> wrote:
> Agreed. All three +1.
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>      Peter
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> Peter Suber
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> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Timothy Vollmer <tvol at creativecommons.org>
> wrote:
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>> Terrific.
>> tvol
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>> 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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