Open Policy and Procedures Initiative
In collaboration with EngageMedia, we are seeking to initiate a new open documents project that would seed policy and procedure templates for new and emergent organisations, associations and collectives.
Project outline
Every new organisation, no matter in which country they are incorporated, will undergo the process of developing a set of policies and standard operating procedures. It is a wheel that in general need not be re-invented.
EngageMedia is one such organisation. It wishes to learn from the efforts of others, to improve on them and share the results back to the NGO sector. However, in this instance, there are few resources, if any, of value to EngageMedia. In short, EngageMedia has yet to locate any organisation that shares their policies and procedures under an open and acceptable re-use license.
Thus, EngageMedia proposes to undertake the drafting and gradual publication of an open set of policy documents that can be retro-fitted to any similar organisation.
The Open Policies & Procedures Initiative (OPPI) would be an open documents project developed in much the same manner as any piece of open source software.
Scope for OPPI to assist small and emergent organisations without access to such resources, let alone the skills to draft such documents, is not only extensive, it is invaluable.
Interested?
If you’re interested in participating, contact Andrew Garton. We are particularly interested to work with organisations who have policies and procedures they are open to sharing from which we can build our templates base from.
