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Strategic Board advisory group:objectives and role

Vince SmithNatural History Museum, London

vince@vsmith.info

ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity

Workpackage 1Management

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Who we are & what we do

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Dave Roberts

Vince SmithDonat Agosti

Rod PageChristine Hine

Gregor Hagedorn

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What we will do in ViBRANTStrategic board definition

“A collective of interested individuals who identify with the vision, mission and values of ViBRANT, and who provide insight into the needs of the communities served by ViBRANT to all other the governing bodies”

i.e. provide contextual vision

• Advocacy, influencing policy and resource allocation decisions of the management committee (directional advice)

• Feedback on workprogram activities & outputs

• Outreach, open & honest promotion of ViBRANT activities

• Identify opportunities for including ViBRANT activities in the fabric of global biodiversity research

• Conflict resolution, for deadlocked issues in the management committee (last resort)

Roles

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How we are doing it

Outreach through IT Tools• Vbrant.eu forum, Twitter (@vbrant), mailing lists, blogs

Raising awareness at committees, conference & workshops

• Various EU & global events over the next 3 years

Reports

• D 1.1 Management reports

Strategic Board Meetings

• Physical (annual) & virtual (6th monthly & informal comm.)

• VS & DR interaction with management team

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INTERNALLY

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Who are our users & how will they engage?

Success Metrics“Sustainability” by being useful. Evidence might include:

• ViBRANT products & services integrated into the broader field• ViBRANT 2 initiative for some (or all) or the work programme

• Management Committee (Primarily via VS, DR, and GM)

• EU Project Reviews

• Feedback & engagement from project participants

INTERNALLY

• Engagement with related initiatives (CBOL, EOL, BHL, GBIF etc)

• Feedback from outreach activities

EXTERNALLY

Talk to the strategic board, they are not shy!

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