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Imigangatho

Data description cell

Works on how the indexes' data is described and exchanged, with the standards working groups.

Joining
By request
Decides by
Consensus with fallback
To form
3 members
Visibility
Listed in public once active

What it is for

Drafts, reviews and adopts a standard, or a profile of one, together with the standards working groups, through open comment rounds.

Who it draws on

Every cell is interdisciplinary: anyone may ask to join. These are the fields it needs most.

Expertise

  • Risk governance and institutions
  • Digital public infrastructure and digital identity
  • AI assurance and audit
  • Reliability, safety and resilience engineering

Amasebe olwazi

  • Law and regulation
  • Science and technology studies
  • Computer science
  • Civil and structural engineering

How it is run

Roles a cell of this type must fill before it is listed
RoleInto eyenzayoAt least
ConvenorChairs the drafting work and calls for consensus.1
EditorHolds the working draft and integrates the resolved comments.1
SecretaryKeeps the records: minutes, decisions, the member list and the cell log.1
Decisions
Consensus with fallback. Seek agreement with nobody blocking; after the set rounds, a fallback rule decides and the record says so.
Safeguards
  • Quorum rules. Who must take part for a result to count.
  • Conflict-of-interest recusal. People with a declared interest step out of the decision.
  • Veto, escalation and appeals. Named holders may veto with reasons; a veto can be overridden; unresolved matters escalate; decisions can be appealed in a window on listed grounds.

How to join

By request. People ask to join with their relevant expertise and a short motivation; the cell's admins approve or decline.

A request asks for: your relevant expertise and why you want to join.

What a new cell starts with

Projects

  • Scope and work item proposal
  • Working draft
  • Public comment round

First issues

  • Collect the normative references
  • Resolve the comments
  • Write the conformance tests

Open calls

  • Comments on the working draft

What it connects to

Imigangatho
Work with the standards working groups: drafts, comment rounds and conformance.
Review hub
Request peer review of outputs, and review the work of others.
Uguqulelo
Translate the cell's pages, documents and guides with reviewed translations.
Forms
Intake, sign-up and survey forms with consent recorded.

Its space has: discussion, activity, documents and library, meetings and events, proposals and decisions, outputs.

Projects it often runs

  • Standard draft. Draft, comment on and adopt a standard or a profile of one.

Agreements it signs

  • Cell charter (required). The mission, scope, host, roles, governance model and how the cell closes.
  • Membership agreement (required). What members commit to, how they join and leave, and how credit is recorded.
  • Intellectual property and open licence (required). Who owns the outputs and the open licence they are published under.
  • Code of conduct and safeguarding (required). How members treat each other, how concerns are raised, and who acts on them.

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