MyData Principles- open collaboration meeting

THIS IS A TWICE-MONTHLY OPEN FORUM TO DISCUSS UPDATES TO THE MY DATA PRINCIPLES, IN PREPARATION FOR THE MYDATA CONFERENCE

Dear MyData Members.

We live in complex and changing times. In such situations, having guiding principles that are clear enough to point us to where we want to go, while flexible enough to allow us to navigate the unpredictable challenges that may arise, is paramount.

The Principles in the MyData Principles Declaration are our guide. With this, we coordinate our efforts and initiatives to develop a more human-centric future. However, our Declaration has had a few years and while it served us well, we have already started to work on it’s update.

The MyData Conference will be the perfect setting to discuss in person. But we also need time to read, think and discuss it, each by itself, and together. This can be done in real time and also asynchronously.

While each person decides when and where to take that it’s individual and async time, we are inviting you all to a fortnight meeting to do it in real time: the proposal is to get to know each other, understand our individual and collective needs and thoughts, discuss and define our next MyData Principles.

Because this is not another formal document: it will be our collective guide for the next 5 years. This is why we ask you to read it, leave out the implementation details (the how), and let’s meet online to define, together, the fundamentals (the what).

The invitation is each 2nd and 4rth Monday, at 12:00 UTC, for 55 minutes, at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85014794466.

The rules are simple. A MyData facilitator will help us during the meeting, and we will:

• record the sessions for other members to follow.
• have a check-in where we very briefly present ourselves.
• create and consent our agenda based on everyone’s proposals.
• work on the agenda points, together or in parallel, as we define.
• take notes of the work done.
• close with a synthesis and a check-out to see what went well and what we want to change for the next meeting.

Between sessions, we have the Slack channel to keep thinking and working together, and all notes will be shared on a document.

Any questions and/or proposals, please write me at eduardo@mercovich.net and I will be very happy to help.

I hope to see you then and there.

Warm regards,
Eduardo Mercovich, member of the MyData Global Board

PS: as with any videoconference, the 1st time you log in you will have to give your browser permissions to access the camera and microphone.