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OMC Management, governance and stakeholders (planned) |
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NOTE: Follows the planned governance structure for OMC. Entities that have agreed to date through MOUS to the role outlined below are marked with an asterisk "*".
Managing Board: Management of operations will be in the hands of organizations and companies that are leaders in the management of developer communities and open innovation business processes. It will manage day to day operations:
- Accenture* will manage the drafting and execution of OMC operations according to the most current Strategic Plan approved by the Board of Directors and by the Open Innovation principles.
- Telematics Freedom Foundation* and the Open Video Alliance will co-manage the educational, community building, events activities of OMC, and the Universal Audiovisual Archive.
- ...to be defined
Board of Directors. It will be the principal decision making body of OMC, including:
- Draft, approve and modify at will a detailed and specific yearly Strategic Plan.
- Elects bi-annually a new managing board
Its voting right will be assigned as follows:
- 45% to primary and secondary world-leading technical partners:
- 35% spread among at least 3 entities on this list that will accept: W3C, Mozilla, Kaltura, (second choice: Opera, WebKit “community”,)
- 10% spread equally among the entities on this list that will accept:
- 15% by Telematics Park* and Digital Artists Labs*
- 20% to OMC bi-annual co-investing partners (Italian broadcasters and producers, global device makers, etc)
- 3% to Province of Rome
- 3% to Region of Lazio
- 3% to Municipality of Formello
The technological guidance and animation of OMC will be in hands of key members of its board of directors and OMC Technological Partners, i.e. leading global open-source/free video and rich-media software client-side software technology providers in the broadband and broadband/broadcast sectors. Their participation to the partnership would NOT involve any cash commitments, but only a (5-yrs) renewable partnering commitment to locate within the Park a minimum number of man-days of R&D, training, community and development events and or core staff working-time, mostly concentrated over intensive weeks. In exchange, the partner would receive commitments, by the Cluster, for millions of euros to funding the development of technology and content developer community for their technologies. (Such as: mainly Mozilla/Firefox, “Webkit community”, Kaltura, W3C, WebM, OggTheora, Free Software Foundation, Open Video Alliance; but possibly Boxee/Xbmc, Roku).
Stakeholders Board: It’s only function will be to convene once every 3 yrs to review the composition of the Board of Directors, and verify the extent to which it may need change to better fulfill its global innovation and local economic development objectives. It will have 50% of the voting right to confirm/re-elect the Board of Directors, while the other 50% will reside in the Board of Directors as will composed at the time.
Its voting right will be assigned as follows:
Scientific Board: to-be-defined |
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