On 2021-06-24 11:05, Roger Clarke wrote: > Has anyone seen any examples of effective use of electronic fora in > membership-based organisations? > > Background > > A national, membership-based body is changing its form of incorporation, > and is preparing its new constitution. > > Three rounds of consultation are to be undertaken with members.
What does its' current constition have to say about the _process_ of constitional change? Are there deep factions? Are the ordinary members generally in favour of the proposed changes? If not, then no amount of technology will solve the problem. How many members are we talking about? What, roughly, is their age and what level of technical infrastructure would you expect them to have? Is the consitional change likely to be a major or complicated one, and how will responses be evaluated? Can all this be done electronically within the existing constition? What are the security requirements (e.g. to prevent multiple responses)? IMHO putting any of this on Google Docs or other social-media platform is just a gift to the relevant corporation, and may have unintended legal consequences if some members don't want to donate their views to Alphabet et al. David Lochrin _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
