<div dir="auto"><div>I actually believe this should be extended to all Working groups. Let's take my request to terminate Facebook rights as written on ODbL back in June (five months ago and well documented with evidence and lack of feedback from the offender. the board decided not to decide anything and ask for further advice on LWG. AFAIK currently at LWG we have 3 out of the 5 members that work for companies (Telenav, Mapbox and Telenav) indirectly there's CoI to the board. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 6 Dec 2019, 17:57 Mikel Maron, <<a href="mailto:mikel.maron@gmail.com">mikel.maron@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px" dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">More thoughts on CoI...</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We really need to finalize a written policy on Conflict of Interest. Then we aren't relying on "common sense", and it's clear to all of us what constitutes a CoI, and how we handle it. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">This is what the Companies Act says about Conflict of Interest</div><div dir="ltr"><span><a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/175" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/175</a></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">At the moment, we have only this line in the Board rules of order</div><div dir="ltr"><span><a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board_Rules_of_Order" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board_Rules_of_Order</a></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(30,32,33);font-family:osmftext,sans-serif;font-size:16.52px"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(30,32,33);font-family:osmftext,sans-serif;font-size:16.52px">"When a board member would be influenced by a conflict of interest with respect to a decision, they will recuse themselves from voting."</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(30,32,33);font-family:osmftext,sans-serif;font-size:16.52px"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(30,32,33);font-family:osmftext,sans-serif;font-size:16.52px">We've discussed on the Board, I think the most recent was:</span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(30,32,33);font-family:osmftext,sans-serif;font-size:16.52px"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(30,32,33);font-family:osmftext,sans-serif;font-size:16.52px"><span><a href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2017-09-21#Written_conflict_of_interest_policy" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2017-09-21#Written_conflict_of_interest_policy</a></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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