Hi all,
Picking up on Neil's questions, I've been thinking about the organisational issue and the tasks issue over the weekend, and, indeed, discussing them with Titi.
In terms of organisation, it seems to me that the most efficient use of everybody's time might be to set ourselves up along the lines of a Special Interest Group. This would mean that there was no set limit on membership, which given our interest would be counterproductive anyway.
Within this group, people have clearly different interests and more importantly knowledge of local conditions and people, so it seems to me to make sense to allow the larger group to organise into different working groups: e.g. Africa, Middle East, China, India/Pakistan, Southern Asia, etc. It seems to me that we can be relatively agnostic about how (and whether) these groups form. We clearly have a large group interested in China already: that seems to me to represent a solid opportunity to build a little work group; we have fewer people thinking about the Middle East at the moment, so there's not really a need, probably, for a working group there till we get some people.
In my experience, nothing ever gets done if there isn't some leadership on a group like this, so perhaps it might make sense to have a small executive of 4-6 people who could act as point people--helping facilitate ideas as they develop and keeping the rest of us up-to-date on what's going on.
What do people think? I'm a big fan of letting administration grow organically and not wasting too much time at the beginning planning structures before you get a sense for how things will develop. But it seems to me that we could even now benefit from an exec+membership model, defining ourselves as a SIG, and perhaps organising a China-Focussed working group.
On 12-10-14 08:21 PM, Bol, Peter wrote:
Dan et al This is well thought out and persuasive. I am particularly interested in seeing how we can make it possible for colleague in China to participate. Best peter
Peter K. Bol
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-----Original Message----- From: globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca [mailto:globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of Daniel O'Donnell Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 6:03 PM To: globaloutlookDH-l@uleth.ca Subject: [globaloutlookDH-l] Different version
Hi all,
Docs didn't quite handle the upload the way I expected. Here's a link to an editable Google Docs format version. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Iak8Fa0k0fCdhVE4yUtkXHXdRKZ4VQcBCfJs1-1F...
It is a little clunkier in layout, but gets the general idea across.
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