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- creative thinking around locale specific issues; including
- keeping vision aligned with changing requirements, advances, paradigms etc.
- keeping an eye on local assets (e.g. training material, consistency etc.) making sure that the credit/value doesn't go to certain individuals or organisations but to the community. [TB: can this be stated better with some kind of rules of copyright / attribution?] [KA: I'll need help with this, I don't think we can get away with a single copyright attribution here but the principle is clear I think. We definitely need whole lot more on IP issues around Localised resources. I suggest we move on but acknowledge the difficulty. I've created a new Heading below with reference to a future Document]
- how to empower local users to get things done
- trying to find workarounds to address local pecularities due to language, culture etc. but fair enough not to compromise the Foundation's values, principles and more importantly its assets.
- managing Qualified Membership:
- setting the criteria for Qualified Membership
- reviewing nominations from existing QM or from the Foundation and deciding who can become QM
- maintaining an appropriate balance of individuals (e.g. academics, government workers, vendors etc. as well as in terms of technical, organisational and other desired skills) [TB: how would this be done? What are the criteria?] [KA: since this is not a fixed number group it is not appropriate to give a number or proportion for each. Also this is not a formal decision making group so probably there's no need for a strict rule. If we end up 90% vendor representation is this bad? Not at all in my opinion. I think we'll determine this along the way but the principle is clear]
- etc.
- leadership and support for Qualified Members:
- help with their local establishments (e.g. assist preparing their local TOR)
- resolving local/global IP issues
- publishing local content
- mediating local training strategies, material development and maintenance
- help with promotion strategies in local environments
- communication to the wider openEHR community of issues of general interest
- communication to other Programs (Specification, Software, Clinical Models)
- communication to the Foundation of any local issues arising which needs Board's attention
- getting promotion support and material (e.g. endorsements, MoUs etc.)
- aligning local strategies and works with that of the Foundation
- advise of requirements and prioritisation of work or any other business
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It is acknowledged that this may be a 'hard' topic! While the copyright (of left) and licensing issues can be become quite complicated the rule of thumb is to provide maximum freedom in the use and dissemination of local openEHR resources while ensuring ownership and quality is retained.[KA: this can be as complicated as we want].
The details are discussed in this Page (TBD).
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