[DDI-users] Feedback Requested: DDI Alliance Scientific Board restructuring proposal

[Jared Lyle]

Dear DDI community,

A temporary working group has been meeting since February to discuss how to
improve the structure and organization of the Scientific Board, which is
the scientific and technical body of the Alliance.  This past week, that
group finalized their recommendations to propose a restructuring and to
draft changes to the Alliance Bylaws.  Those recommendations are here:
https://ddi-alliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DDI4/pages/850853895/Scientific+Board+Revision+-+temporary+working+group

The recommendations include:

   - ScientificBoard restructuring.docx.  This short note is intended to
   explain the thinking behind a new plan to organize, operate, and engage
   with the Scientific Board of the DDI Alliance.
   - Bylaws-2020-Final_Draft-20200619.docx.  This contains the proposed
   changes to the DDI Alliance Bylaws to accommodate the reorganized
   Scientific Board.
   - ScientificBoardOperationalGuidelines-draft.docx.  This specifies the
   operational guidelines of the reorganized Scientific Board.

As a next step, we ask that you review the recommendations and send any
comments to Ingo Barkow <Ingo.Barkow at fhgr.ch>, chair of the temporary
working group, by *17 July*.

Ingo and the temporary working group will finalize their recommendations
and then send them to the Executive Board, which under the Bylaws can
propose amendments.  "Amendments must be adopted by a two‐thirds majority
vote of the Designated Member Representatives after written electronic
notice of the vote of at least sixty days" (DDI Alliance Bylaws, (Section
XVII).


Jared Lyle
Executive Director, DDI Alliance <https://ddialliance.org/>
ICPSR <https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/>, University of Michigan
lyle at umich.edu

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