Hi Élika and everyone,
I just realized that I've inserted in the intercultural etc. document some proposals and reflections that are quite general and concern also governance and other topics. Just feel free to move them around if you think they make any sense.
Thanks for giving us the opportunity to discuss these issues in a collective way. But the fact that ADHO can either accept or reject these suggestions reminds me of a situation similar to XVII-XVIII century Europe where kings and rulers could or could not accept the proposals made by elected or partially elected assemblies. So once again I like to call a spade a spade: ADHO it is not a democratic organization. We can put as much effort as we wish in drafting our proposals and pushing our requests, but the reality is that our action can be considered, in the best case, what constitutional experts would call a form of 'moral persuasion'. So I'm afraid we are not still equal on this (digital humanities) world.
Sorry for being out of line with this. But there is no other way to defend democracy in these days except to start applying it.
Domenico Il 29/Nov/2015 06:46, "Élika Ortega" elikaortega@gmail.com ha scritto:
Dear all,
This is the link to part 1 of the document we're working on Governance and Mentorship that Alex Gil and I prepared.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uM7ePK-SRCqvI8axCKZnykg4H3WBHDAIeUHWd3rL...
Please, feel free to add and comment.
All best, Élika
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Daniel O'Donnell < daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca> wrote:
Hi all,
Earlier this week, ADHO announced a change in leadership as John Nerbonne stepped down as ADHO chair and Karina van Dalen-Oskam was elected as interim chair (the announcement is here: http://adho.org/announcements/2015/adho-announces-new-steering-committee-cha...). As part of the announcement, Karina called for a discussion on inter-cultural communication:
"The first thing I have asked the Steering Committee to do, is to establish a protocol or a set of rules/guidelines for dealing with these fundamental cultural issues. We will not be the only organization that runs into this kind of problems. I have asked all members of the Steering Committee to do some research, and I would welcome input from others as well. Can you find guidelines that we could adopt/adapt for ADHO? Do colleagues from other international organizations have suggestions based on their own experience? Are there policy makers who can help? "
This is something GO::DH can contribute to: it is closely related to our core interest AND we have actually discussed parts of this in our early days (see for example, the discussion involving some of these emails: http://listserv.uleth.ca/pipermail/globaloutlookdh-l/2013-April/000319.html
http://listserv.uleth.ca/pipermail/globaloutlookdh-l/2013-January/000163.htm...
http://listserv.uleth.ca/pipermail/globaloutlookdh-l/2013-January/000188.htm...
At our meeting today, the executive decided to lead development of a GO::DH response to Karina's call. Because of the time limitations, we will not be able to have a full membership development and approval process (it is due Nov. 30th), though we may want to develop the interim statement further using that process after it is submitted to ADHO. For this reason it will be submitted formally as a document of the executive (and any additional authors) and as specifically reflecting their views rather than those of the SIG as a whole.
But we would very much to develop this as openly and as broadly as possible within those constraints.
To do this, we will be developing and writing the document openly in Google Docs between now and Sunday. We have divided our response into three sections:
- Recognising and Accommodating Barriers to Participation (Lead
editor: Gimena del Rio)
- Best practice in governance and mentorship (Lead editors: Alex Gil
and Élika Ortega
- Best practice in inter-cultural language use and communication
(Lead editors: Daniel O'Donnell and Øyvind Eide).
Each of the editors will be sharing a link to a Google doc specifically for their section with the list in the next couple of hours. In the document, they will collect notes and points and examples (and ask you to help with your ideas). On Sunday morning, we will then lock the documents down and edit them into a narrative (it is because of time pressure that we will institute this lock down; this lock-down and the lack of time for followup consultation is also why, in the end, it will be submitted as a document of the executive rather than the SIG as a whole).
In keeping with the GO::DH ethos, we encourage people to contribute in whatever language you feel most comfortable in and let the editors figure out how to combine the bits and pieces. Our final document will be submitted in three forms: an original language narrative written in the languages the editors feel most comfortable in (probably English and Spanish for the most part), an English-language, lingua franca translation for wide dissemination, and, as Karina has indicated that her first choice would be for Dutch, a Dutch-language submission copy. Let me emphasis the extent to which we welcome your ideas on these topics and invite you to contribute to the formulation of our response. It may also make sense to use the list as a way of conversationally developing ideas under these topics as well, so please feel free to contribute ideas that way, as well, again in whatever language you feel most appropriate.
-dan
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