OASIS Emergency Interoperability Member Section Steering Committee Nomin

OASIS members:

Two seats on the OASIS Emergency Interoperability (EI) Member Section (MS)

Steering Committee [1] are up for election. All EI MS participants are

invited to nominate qualified candidates and/or serve on the Steering

Committee. If you aren't currently active in the EI Member Section, now is a

great time to join.

The OASIS Emergency Interoperability (EI) Member Section accelerates the

development, adoption, application, and implementation of emergency

interoperability and communications standards and related work. EI endeavors

to represent and serve the needs of all constituents, from practitioners to

technology providers and national, international and multinational oversight

agencies.

The nomination and election procedures for the Steering

Committee is defined by the OASIS Member Section Policy [2] and the EI

Member Section Rules of Procedure [3].

There are five elected members on the EI Steering Committee; each

serve a two-year term. The elections are staggered annually to assure

continuity of leadership. The two candidates receiving the highest ranked

votes will each serve two-year terms.

Any EI MS participant [4] may nominate or be nominated as a candidate for

the Steering Committee. Any OASIS member may join the EI MS [5]. The process

is simple but it must be completed during the nomination period to submit a

nomination.

Each EI MS Supporting Entity has one Qualified Elector who casts the

single vote on behalf of his/her organization. Unless otherwise designated,

the organization's Primary Representative serves as the Qualified Elector.

The Primary Rep may defer the voting member role to another employee member

by sending an email to member-services@oasis-open.org; any such change

should be in place before the ballot is cast.

NOMINATION & ELECTION SCHEDULE

Nominations will be held from 19-September-2008 through 27 - October-2008.

The election will be held 29 -October-2008 through 12 – November -2008.

NOMINATION PROCESS

Any EI MS participant may nominate a candidate via email to:

nominations@oasis-open.org.

Prior to being confirmed as a candidate, each nominee must:

1. Accept the nomination;

2. Confirm his/her ability to meet the time commitments of the position

(participation in a two-hour teleconference each month, promote the work of

the Member Section).

3. **Provide background information and a position statement describing

his/her qualifications and motivations for serving on the Steering

Committee; and

4. Be a participant in the EI Member Section.

ELECTION PROCESS

The two new Steering Committee members will be selected by the EI MS

Qualified Electors, using the Single Transferable Voting (STV) process -

Scottish  Method [6]. STV considers each voter's ranked preference for

candidates, in order to more accurately reflect the wishes of the

electorate. EI MS Qualified Electors will be sent detailed voting

instructions separately.

Results will be announced immediately after they are tabulated and

confirmed.

We encourage all Emergency Interoperability participants to consider serving

on the Steering Committee. Please contact (member-services@oasis-open.org)

with any questions you might have regarding this process.

[1] http://www.oasis-emergency.org/steering-committee

[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ms_policy.php

[3] http://www.oasis-emergency.org/RoP

[4] http://www.oasis-emergency.org/members

[5] http://www.oasis-emergency.org/join

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote

Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Dee Schur, Manager of Member Support

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the information society

http://www.oasis-open.org

+1.978.667.5115 x211

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