Please note, HOT does have established Conflict of Interest policies in place.
These were first approved by the Board in 2012 as part of the 501(3)c process,
and discussed and reviewed most recently last year. These documents are
viewable at
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/?pli=1#folders/0Bzo5n4vXsVmed2tMVXpJZ0pGZHM
OSM US example should be helpful as well. Most all of the Directors there have
CoI from their employment, with entities that support the OSM US organized
State of the Map US conference and other activities. They're doing an excellent
job of maintaining the interests of OSM US.
BestMikel
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
On Thursday, March 12, 2015 1:43 PM, nicolas chavent
<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for this Martjin: this would be most helpful in that context on top of
the practices within HOT US.
Best,
Nicolas
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote:
The OSM US board has just agreed on a COI policy that was prepared by a legal
expert. I can see if I can get you a copy if that would help?
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Harry Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe conflicts should be handled in the follow 2 basic ways.
>
> 1. Potential conflicts should be talked about and acknowledged well
> before any actual conflicts arise.
> 2. Board members should completely recuse themselves from any
> conversation. They should not listen to or be a part of the conversation
> during any activities where a conflict exist.
>
Yep. Those are the rules. It's quite difficult to follow if the topic about
which you have a conflict of interest, is something coming up a lot in board
discussions. So in your case Dale, if the board were needing to discuss ARC a
lot, then you might have to recuse yourself a lot. That's a bit awkward but not
impossible.
We found it very difficult in the past having HOT paid staff members on the
board, particularly as they didn't always seem to understand and accept these
rules. I guess it was understandable that they wanted to take strategic
decisions about the projects and parts of the organisation which most effected
them and their (HOT staff) work.
Can be tricky.
> As such I'll be posting my conflicts to the Board Election Wiki
> and encourage others to do the same.
I called mine a "Declaration of interests" and linked it off my user page
rather than off the elections wiki (but that's partly because, I was *on* the
board when I wrote it. Also it serves just as well as a declaration for anyone
looking at me as a OSMF CWG member)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Harry_Wood/Declaration_of_Interests
Maybe that's useful as a template. Direct financial interests (who pays you) is
the most important thing for people to be aware of, but I tried to think of
other affiliations I have which might conflict. I also noted when it was last
updated, since this information can obviously go out of date.
Harry
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