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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">For whatever it is
worth:</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=292">https://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=292</a></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>conflict of interest</b><br>
n. a situation in which a person has a duty to more than one
person or organization, but cannot do justice to the actual or
potentially adverse interests of both parties. This includes
when an individual's personal interests or concerns are
inconsistent with the best for a customer, or when a public
official's personal interests are contrary to his/her loyalty to
public business. An attorney, an accountant, a business adviser
or realtor cannot represent two parties in a dispute and must
avoid even the appearance of conflict. He/she may not join with
a client in business without making full disclosure of his/her
potential conflicts, he/she must avoid commingling funds with
the client, and never, never take a position adverse to the
customer.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/6/2019 11:32 AM, Rory McCann
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:795e3106-e8d1-a2f9-058e-d04a7ac7f9e5@technomancy.org">Hello
<br>
<br>
On 06/12/2019 00:10, Peter Barth wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">My definition of a potential conflict of
interest:
<br>
A potential conflict of interests arises, if there is a topic at
<br>
board level where the interests of the OSM project and your
<br>
employer *might* differ.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
I agree.
<br>
<br>
To me, a CoI occures when your judgement could be clouded, when
you could take other, non-OSM(F) benefits into account. If you
have a CoI, then people cannot really trust your judgement, your
vote. I don't think there's a big difference between a “CoI”
and “potential CoI”, I think _all_ “potential CoIs” are
really “less influential CoIs”, i.e. still a CoI 😉
<br>
<br>
CoI rules can _help_ employees. If it's decided you have a CoI,
and are forbidden from voting, then your boss cannot disciple you.
You did everything in your power to help the company, you were
just blocked. This could be good protection for employees.
<br>
<br>
It sounds good to rely on “common sense”, unfortunately many
people disagree about what that means! When you write things down,
we can see on what we do and don't agree on. When we write things
down, everyone know “the rules of the game” going into things.
When we write things down, everyone can see if we're sticking to
the rules.
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Do you agree with my statement or
description of CoI/potential
<br>
CoI? How would you cope with a CoI? How with a potential CoI?
<br>
Especially will you take part in discussions? Share
<br>
arguments,...? Public only? Private? Will you participate in
<br>
votes? Will you make your CoI public? Will you make a potential
<br>
CoI public?
<br>
<br>
I am specifically interested to hear an opinion of anyone
<br>
directly or indirectly working for or with OSM or GIS data.
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
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