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

Sat Jan 26 12:33:42 UTC 2013

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Fantastic new! Many congratulations Luis. :-)

Indeed it would be great to find ways of collaborating with you in your new
role.

All the best,

Jonathan

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Peter Suber <peters at earlham.edu> wrote:
> > 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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> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Herb Lainchbury
> >>> Dynamic Solutions Inc.
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> >>> http://twitter.com/herblainchbury
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