[sbis_l] Fwd: openEHR Transition Announcement (about regional/national openehr organizations)

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From: Erik Sundvall <erik.sundvall@liu.se>
Date: 7 de setembro de 2011 04h31min20s BRT
To: For openEHR technical discussions <openehr-technical@openehr.org>
Cc: openehr clinical <openehr-clinical@openehr.org>
Subject: Re: openEHR Transition Announcement (about regional/national openehr organizations)
Reply-To: For openEHR clinical discussions <openehr-clinical@openehr.org>

Hi!

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 08:38, Ian McNicoll
<Ian.McNicoll@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@liu.se http://www.imt.liu.se/~erisu/  Tel: +46-13-286733

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