Policies/en/Steering-Committee-Charter
This is a draft charter page, under construction. Status: proposal, to be adopted. It is offered as a first base position (initial hypothesis), proposed as a base for discussion, to be reviewed and validated before adoption. See the detailed disclaimer.
Steering Committee charter
The Steering Committee is the founding governance body of WikiDeal. It is currently in the process of being constituted: this is the very beginning of the project, and nothing is fixed at this stage. For the time being, this responsibility rests with the Council of the Ynternet.org Foundation.
Purpose
The Steering Committee is intended to guide the first steps of WikiDeal governance. Its members are invited to give their opinion and advice on the direction of the project. Over time, the Steering Committee is intended to hand over its responsibilities to the thematic committees (Technology, Market, Governance and the other committees listed in the policies index), as those committees come into existence.
Appointment
The Steering Committee is appointed by the Council of the Ynternet.org Foundation.
Composition
The Steering Committee is composed of:
- members of the Council of the Ynternet.org Foundation;
- members of the Scientific Council of the Ynternet.org Foundation;
- people selected for the added value they bring, based on their previous experience and their participation in projects following the same tendency.
An organic constitution process
The constitution of the Steering Committee is intended as an organic process:
- Members are invited to give their opinion and advice.
- They are invited only once enough Donations have been received for funds to be genuinely distributed.
- At the beginning there would be one, two or three people; progressively, more members would join.
- Progressively, the Steering Committee would pass the baton to the thematic boards (technology, market, policy and the others), as they come into existence.
Current situation
The Steering Committee is currently being constituted. Because this is the very beginning of the project, nothing is settled yet. For now, this role is in the hands of the Council of the Ynternet.org Foundation:
- The members of the Council are registered in the Swiss commercial register.
- The Council meets periodically, according to the progress of the various projects of the Foundation. WikiDeal is the main project, but not the only one: other projects can be seen on the Ynternet.org Foundation website.
- The operational director of the Foundation is Athanasios Priftis. See his TEDxGeneva talk: "Ever tried to open a government?" (TEDxGeneva 2014).
Meetings and decisions
To be defined: frequency of meetings, quorum, how decisions are made and recorded.
Review and amendment
To be defined: how this charter is reviewed, amended and approved.