Terms of Reference (ToR) https://ib1.org/terms/tor
Members of Steering, Advisory and Working Groups must sign a formal Agreement to Terms of Reference. These outline the structure of the groups, roles and responsibilities, time commitments, rules, values and guiding principles.
Do one thing well
Icebreaking focuses on outcomes & connecting expertise. Activities must focus on, and prioritise, the delivery of impact and outcomes that can scale. A core benefit of Trust Frameworks is to reduce transactional costs and friction in the data-sharing economy. To do so, the five areas of activity must be addressed coherently while balancing complexity. To achieve this we strongly encourage taking a ‘do one thing well’ approach. Getting the rails well-built will enable further use cases to travel faster.
Go far together
Cohesive solutions reduce cost and friction in markets. To arrive at these is challenging and requires many, often competing initiatives to agree. We encourage a strong focus on pre-competitive areas that unlock common value to enable teams to go far together.
Transparency
Outputs from the groups shall, as appropriate, be published openly once approved. This includes formal minutes, updates, briefings and reports. Where relevant, voted decisions and/or endorsements are included. These will be published on the website(s) and disseminated using social media as relevant to the outputs. Outputs will be published under an open licence (CC-BY) by default. Group participants must consent to be listed publicly as participants.
Antitrust guidelines for collaboration between competitors
The ToR mandates adherence to standard antitrust guidelines aligned with competition law. https://ib1.org/sops/antitrust-guidelines
Inclusion
Data spans the public and private sectors, involving virtually every system and every citizen. It forms part of our national infrastructure and we must ensure multiple voices are represented. IB1 will help map out the data value chain and stakeholder ecosystem and make recommendations as to which actors should be represented in development.
Openness and contribution as an expert critical friend
Group participants agree to
A) embrace open collaboration:
- share views and plans, and knowledge as widely as possible
- solicit and listen to views from end users and stakeholders
- make relevant outputs available under an open licence (e.g. CC-BY, MIT) as described at https://ib1.org/ip
B) contribute their views as an expert:
- As an individual contributor. The Chatham House rule is applied to allow participants to speak as individuals, to express views that may not be those of their organisations, and encourage free and open discussion: “When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.”. This also applies to public summaries.
- As a collegiate team, use their expertise to synthesise the views of others in constructive and forward-thinking proposals
- To use their good judgement, respect privacy and confidentiality.
C) encourage critical thinking and focus on outcomes:
- support each other in discussion, in decisions, and in delivery
- constructively hold each other to account on commitments
- ensure all voices are heard and considered carefully