[okfn-discuss] [OKFN-International-Council] Open Knowledge Foundation Governance

Mon Jul 15 13:21:26 UTC 2013

Daniel,

Once we have some idea of how the community side of representation might
fit with the legal responsibilities of the board, we'll certainly be
talking with the International Council and others (such as WG coordinators
/ steering groups) to flesh out what this could mean in practice and to get
a system set up.

I think it's important to note that the OKF Central Board of Directors has
quite a specific remit today, primarily around the non-profit organisation
that operates OKF-central, and doesn't usually engage in detailed issues on
the community side - see http://okfn.org/OKFgovernance/   Longer term we do
need to think about how the international angle and global governance
questions could and should work, and the Board acknowledge this will be
coming along in the future.

Best regards,

Laura

On 15 July 2013 09:27, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi Abbas, Laura, all,
>
> we have already touched upon this issue last year in Helsinki and
> discussed again in OKFN's winter summit. I think there is a general
> agreement that chapters, local groups, working groups and perhaps
> other stakeholders of the international community should have some say
> on certain decisions that effects them as part of the global network.
>
> Until today, in fact, the board of OKFN central takes decisions for
> the hole network. This is not a good situation and should be changed.
>
> However, we have not agreed on how this representation might look
> like. I think there are multiple options. For example we could think
> about an model were members of the community join OKFN central board
> for a period of time alternately. Or of a model were an additional
> international board is established, that itself becomes some say in
> the decisions of the OKFN central board.
>
> Perhaps we should start by thinking of what kind of decisions should
> remain in the responsibility of OKFN central board and what kind of
> decisions the international community should become involved in
> decision making process.
>
> @Laura, I think it would be good to already include members of the
> international community in this governance discussion. Perhaps the
> newly created OKFN-International-Council is a good place to start
> with?
>
> All best
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
> Daniel Dietrich
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> On 14 July 2013 19:06, Laura James <laura.james at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > By an amazing coincidence, just today there's been a Board Retreat and
> we've
> > discussed this very question. We agreed that there should be a community
> > representative on the board, and we'll be putting together a process for
> > this shortly. So watch this space!
> >
> > Other board members are selected to ensure the critical board functions
> > around governance can be delivered by people with the appropriate skills
> and
> > expertise; we hope to refresh the processes and documents to explain
> this in
> > more detail shortly too.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Laura
> >
> >
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> > On 14 July 2013 12:34, Abbas Mahmoud <abbasjnr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm interested in knowing how the Open Knowledge Foundation Board of
> >> Directors are selected. I'm pretty new to the OKFN movement, so I'd
> highly
> >> appreciate some pointers to relevant links, if any.
> >>
> >> Also, has the OKF ever considered empowering the community to (s)elect
> >> some seats at the Board Level? I know that other like-minded
> organisations
> >> like Wikimedia Foundation and Creative Commons usually does that, which
> >> tends to give the community a sense of belonging and a voice at the
> >> decision-making level.
> >>
> >> Your thoughts?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Abbas.
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