Consensus / Issues 16/3/2020
BylawsA statement
Discussion centred around:
Adding a preamble to the Scientific Board purpose which encapsulates purpose as being primarily strategy, oversight of TC, Marketing, Training etc, and development of direction. e.g. Strategic direction of the DDI Alliance standards / work products and its promotion and support.
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The current purposes whilst useful, could be viewed as being more functions and to enable it to be more flexible,
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and grow with the needs of the Alliance, perhaps
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they could be transformed into standing orders, which would need ratification by another body e.g. either Annual Meeting or Executive if changed. This might mean expansion / revision of current 6 points
Current organisation by law “to set up sub groups” move to purpose/ standing order , to emphasise co-ordination role of SB.
Strong agreement that the SB should present a report to the annual meeting on past activities but also that it should be charged with providing a strategic plan for the forthcoming period (as a document with meaningful choices, e.g. options for discussion), so that it had a clear mandate from the Alliance
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annual meeting
We did discuss specific organisational issues which flowed from the purposes, but leave those as possible options
Board composition
Election Should election be restricted to just election of Chair/Vice chair?
Geographic other representation models?
Composition of small group
Not determined by voting?
Chair
and / or there should be ‘reservations’ to ensure some form of representation from the membership as a whole, this might be geographic or other representations models e.g. archive / research / NSO etc?
Strong feeling that actual work should be done by small groups from with SB plus others if neccesary / needed and that these should provide reports to SB for approval
An open issue we did not discuss was current SB ByLaw that relates to voting approval of major revisions, who and how thay should be done
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