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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Is there any reason the
Board could not require that all WGs and committees apply the
conflict-of-interest rules once they are final?</font></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/4/2020 5:45 AM, Joost Schouppe
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<div dir="auto">Hi Frederik,
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<div dir="auto">Thanks for the input, I'll make sure it's on the
agenda for the next (or a later) agenda.</div>
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<div dir="auto">The Board finally has a first draft of a CoI
procedure - it looked pretty close to a finished product to
me. I don't think it should be too much work to adapt it to
use in the Microgrants Committee.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op za 4 apr. 2020 11:33
schreef Frederik Ramm <<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">frederik@remote.org</a>>:<br>
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the microgrants group is going to be responsible for
disbursing quite an<br>
amount of money in the future; I think it would be appropriate
if - like<br>
OSMF board members - they were to list their affiliations
somewhere. For<br>
this role in particular I think it would be relevant to know
what, if<br>
any, relationship the group members have to existing
grant-giving bodies<br>
in the wider OSM sphere - are they or were they recently
/employed by/in<br>
a contractual relationship with/the recipient of funding
from/a member<br>
of/ groups like /HOT/the UN/MSF/Missing Maps/Red Cross/Youth
Mappers/ et<br>
cetera.<br>
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I would also be interested in hearing if the group has
considered what a<br>
conflict of interest would be in the course of committee work
and how<br>
they would deal with that. For a (hypothetical) example, if
one of the<br>
team had been involved with a UN water sanitation project in
Kenya and<br>
then a proposal from a former fellow team member at that water<br>
sanitation project comes in - would they then say "great, our
group<br>
member X know the applicant already and is in an ideal
position to judge<br>
this", or would they rather have that group member recuse
themselves?<br>
Either decision has its merits but it's good to think about
this before<br>
it arises.<br>
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As you know, the OSMF board has spent a lot of time in the
past circling<br>
that Conflict-of-Interest topic and never made a lot of
progress; it is<br>
not my intention to suck time away from the Microgrants team
by having<br>
them repeat that exercise, but CoI is hard even without a EUR
200k bag<br>
of money in hand, and I'd urge people to at least consider
potential<br>
issues here.<br>
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Bye<br>
Frederik<br>
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