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Poll results from the Community Council are all online!

· Written by Jer Clarke

Categories: Community Council

Those participating in the Community Consultation on the Future of Global Voices [1] process have already been sent links to these results on the D21 site via. email, but as part of our public documentation, we have now published the full results of the four polls right here on the Community site:

Council 2018 Issue #1: Topics and Focus [2]

The first issue tackled by the 2018 Community Consultation on the Future of Global Voices was Topics and Focus. Read the full issue paper: Community Council Issue Paper 1: Topics and Focus The question: Should we change our (editorial) focus? We cover a broad scope of issues in our work. This allows volunteers to…

Council 2018 Issue #2: Degrees of Professionalization [3]

The second issue tackled by the 2018 Community Consultation on the Future of Global Voices was Degrees of Professionalization. Read the full issue paper: Community Council Issue Paper 2: Degrees of Professionalization We ask: Should inclusiveness continue to be our primary value with regard to the composition of our community? Or should we require…

Council 2018 Issue #3: Organizational Structure [4]

The third issue tackled by the 2018 Community Consultation on the Future of Global Voices was Organizational Structure. Read the full issue paper: Community Council Issue Paper 3: Organizational Structure In this poll, we consider the question of decision-making and authority within Global Voices. We ask, should we decentralize decision-making and governance, or…

Council 2018 Issue #4: Funding [5]

The fourth issue tackled by the 2018 Community Consultation on the Future of Global Voices was Funding. Read the full issue paper: Community Council Issue Paper 4: Funding In this poll, we consider the question of funding for Global Voices. We ask: what criteria should we use when deciding what kinds of funds…

These four pages represent the four key issues discussed during the consultation. On each page you'll find a brief summary of the issue, links to the full issue papers that dig into each issue, and the in-depth results from the accompanying poll.

If you decided not to join the council, and are curious how it all turned out, please take a look! Us core team members found these results fascinating. Sometimes surprising, sometimes just what we expected.

Have your own ideas what the answers point to?

We'd like to encourage anyone, especially those on the council, to share their thoughts on the poll results. What do you see when you look at all the answers together? What does it spell out for the future of GV? What important lessons do you worry we might miss?

If you have ideas like these, please share them! I encourage you to make a new post here on the Community Blog (council members should all already have accounts) and explain your thinking. To make your post more visual, just re-use the poll results screenshots embedded in each of the pages linked above.

If you'd rather share your thoughts on the Council Google Group (or anywhere else) please feel free to do that too.

Either way, we’re very interested in what you all have to say, and hope that many of you will dig in and share your thoughts so we can incorporate them into our own analysis, which we’ll be sharing soon!