Decision-making structure - IoP Alliance governance workstream

[BarbaraSchack]

Hello! I responded to this paragraph in the thread on membership, so that people chancing upon information by reading through the forum would find it.

@TiberiusB

What is a member? I propose to call a member a participant individuals, which may act in self-interest or may represent the interests of organizations. Organizations can be listed in support of IoPA, but they cannot be granted membership status. This is practiced in the IP system (patenting): only individuals are considered inventors. They can transfer commercial rights to organizations, but they will be forever recognized as authors / inventors. The current status of corporations as moral persons is problematic, enough history already proves that. As we’re going through this transition towards a networked global society, it is wise to deal with individuals, to see organizations as more or less open networks, of individuals (see Verna Allee and her writings on value networks).