[CivicAccess-discuss] Oldish(?) news: Canadian candidates for the OGP steering committee

[James McKinney]

On Jul 21, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Gerry Tychon <gerry at tychon.ca> wrote:

> Pardon my ignorance but how do candidates actually become candidates. 

Join the OGP Civil Society mailing list for all updates: https://dgroups.org/hivos/ogp

The post was re-published on several other lists including CivicAccess on April 25 by Harvey Low.

Nominations were open from April 25 to June 15.

I believe all were self-nominations, based on the submissions.

James


> ... ggt
> 
> On 21/07/2014 5:29 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
>> It is unfortunate that we do not have solid civil society representation.  
>> 
>> Toby Mendel is excellent, but represents the legal side of things only and to the best of my knowledge brings his organization's point of view forward but not that domain of civil society actors more broadly.  
>> 
>> Chris Moore is also great, but hardly represents civil society, private sector maybe, which was a big contingent at OGP EU Regional meetings in Dublin.
>> 
>> We need someone or an organization that can parlay public policy, open data, open access, and ngos who are data users but not engaged in open data app development necessarily, but is savvy enough to navigate those waters.  It would also be great to have someone who is considered a representative, someone civil society has nominated or who can stand behind, who has a national understanding of the issues but also sub-national and who may consult with key stakeholders and bring their concerns forward.
>> 
>> We did that somewhat when Harvey Low from the Canadian Council on Social Development and the FCM went to Brazil, and we conducted some consultations by conference call and email, but even that was minimal in terms of consultation at best.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> t
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Michael Lenczner <michael at ajah.ca> wrote:
>> 2 Canadians on the list of civil society candidates for the for the OGP Steering Committee. If you're interested, you can dig around more on that site for more info including CVs and letters of nomination (url below).
>> 
>> There's been no update since June 30th, 2014 - so maybe this is already decided and I'm not aware. I hope one (or more) of the Canadians make the cut, though.
>> 
>> Chris Moore
>> (former Chief Information Officer of the city of Edmonton)
>> 
>> Toby Mendel
>> (Centre for Law & Democracy)
>> 
>> And Panthea Lee - applying for either Canada or Taiwan (it's unclear).
>> Reboot
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.ogphub.org/blog/here-are-the-37-candidates-for-the-ogp-steering-committee/
>> 
>> 
>> Michael Lenczner
>> CEO, Ajah
>> http://www.ajah.ca
>> 514-708-5112
>> 
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