Thanks Erik, These feel like very sound proposals, in particular the focus on bottom-up local development.
Pablo, Shinji - would Erik's suggestions be the kind of support that you would hope to have? Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical Modelling Consultant,?Ocean Informatics, UK openEHR Clinical Knowledge Editor www.openehr.org/knowledge Honorary Senior Research Associate, CHIME, UCL BCS Primary Health Care ?www.phcsg.org On 7 September 2011 08:31, Erik Sundvall <erik.sundvall at liu.se> wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 08:38, Ian McNicoll > <Ian.McNicoll at oceaninformatics.com> wrote: >> So, my question back, is >> "What sort of support would you like to see, given that significant >> central resourcing is not likely in the short term?" > [...] >> Would it be sufficient for the Foundation to give 'official status' to >> regional affiliates e.g. openEHR Japan, or are there other practical >> suggestions as to how best to support regional affiliates? > > I would guess that an 'official status' recognition and thus links in > online (and some offline) information resources would be a major > thing, more imoportant than funding, especially if this also allowed > the regional organisation to arrange "official" openEHR > gatherings/conferences etc. It would be reasonable if the local > organisation could keep money left over from such (possibly partly > commercially sponsored) gatherings/conferences. > > Of course it would be reasonable if the foundation had some > requirements on official local organisations, like having: > - open membership > - statutes matching regional democratic traditions and the openEHR > goals (internal governance rules or whatever the swedish word > "stadgar" should be translated to) > - proper accounting and audit > - a duty to have a dialogue with the central openEHR foundation > regarding plans involving using the openEHR tradmark for events etc > - ...probably more... > > For local organisations I think bottom up comunity driven governance > with elected boards etc is the only way to go, not top-down. > > Best regards, > Erik Sundvall > erik.sundvall at liu.se http://www.imt.liu.se/~erisu/? Tel: +46-13-286733 > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > openEHR-clinical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical >
