Community Council Application/Renewal Form

Applications and Renewals

Once per year council members are asked to renew their membership.

If you are already a member of the previous council, please choose Renewal below. This will skip many of the questions, as we already have your information on file. If you haven't been on the council before, or weren't on the previous council for any reason, please choose Application and fill out all the answers below.

Are you applying to the council or renewing your membership?*

First-Time Application
Renewal

Contact Information

Your contact information will be used to process your application as well as to set up your membership on this site and within the Community Council.

Name*

First Last

Email*

Email address for your membership. Please use the same address as you use on GV sites.

GV Profile URL(s)

Please enter the URL(s) of your contributor profile page(s) on any Global Voices sites. If you contribute to multiple GV sites, please add all relevant URL(s).

e.g. https://globalvoices.org/author/ivan-sigal/

Participation in Global Voices

Have you participated in Global Voices in the last five years?*

Yes
No

Contributions to GV within the past five years

Please indicate what contributions you have made to Global Voices within the past five years.

Authored an original post
Translated a post
Sub-edited and/or copy-edited posts
Contributed to a post, report (e.g. Netizen Report) or a special project
Lingua Site Manager or Translation Editor
Social media promotion of GV
Recipient of a Rising Voices Microgrant
Participated in mailing list(s) and/or Slack conversations

Other contributions and/or details (past five years)

Please describe any other contributions you have made over the last five years, or tell us more about the ones listed above.

Did you participate in Global Voices over five years ago? (i.e. ~2005-2016)*

Yes
No

Past contributions to GV

Please select any contributions you made to GV more than five years ago that weren't already selected above.

Authored an original post
Translated a post
Sub-edited and/or copy-edited posts
Contributed to a post, report (e.g. Netizen Report) or a special project.
Lingua Site Manager or Translation Editor
Social media promotion of GV
Recipient of a Rising Voices Microgrant
Participated in mailing list(s) and/or Slack conversations

Other past contributions and/or details

Please describe any other contributions from over five years ago, and/or background info on the ones listed above.

Why do you want to be on the Community Council?

If you'd like, please share a few words about your reasons for getting involved!

Agreements and Consent

Subscription to mailing list/polling consent*

Contact information entered above may be used to invite you to various platforms for discussion and polling related to the consultation. They may include Google Groups, Google Drive, Slack, D21 and others.

I understand that information submitted in this form will be used to register me for platforms and services related to the Community Consultation.

Listing on Community Blog consent*

All Council members will be given a user account on the Community Blog, and that account will be listed as an avatar on a new page listing members for the current year.

I agree to have a user account on the GV Community Blog and to have that account listed on the Community Council page.
“For security reasons I would like to not be listed as a Council member on the Community Blog

Memorandum of understanding (MoU)

All participants in the Council must agree to the Community Council MoU outlining their rights and responsibilities. Please tick the box below to indicate you have read the MoU and agree to abide by it.

1. DESCRIPTION OF RELATIONSHIP

This agreement outlines the terms for Global Voices community members to participate in the Global Voices Community Council (the “Council”). As part of this voluntary contribution, the Contributor agrees to the following:

Receive and respond to Council communications, including email, meeting invitations, and polls.

Read and reflect on the issues and solutions presented to the council.

Join group discussion on designated communication platforms, and participate in online video calls.

Participate in polls when applicable.

Agree to open, civil and respectful discussions in accordance with the Community Ethics and Harassment Policy

Agree to practice secure communication in accordance with the Communication and Safety Guidelines

2. PERIOD OF COMMITMENT

Start date: January 1, 2021 – End date: December 31, 2021.

3. OBLIGATIONS

The Contributor understands and agrees that this is a voluntary association, not employment.

4. CONFIDENTIALITY

Contributor understands and agrees that the Council may include access to confidential information, policies, documents, archives, files, records, and other materials which are solely the property of Global Voices. Contributor must take all reasonable steps to safeguard and protect such materials from unauthorized removal, distribution, publication or other disclosure to third parties, whether intentional or unintentional.

5. TERM

The term of this agreement is valid through the end of the Council term. Participants may exit the Council at will, upon request to be removed, or may be asked to leave if they are in violation of the ethics policy.

This Agreement is effective as of January 1, 2021 by and between you (the “Contributor”) and Stichting Global Voices (“Global Voices”), a Netherlands-based nonprofit corporation. By checking the box, participants agree to join the Council, and to abide by the terms of the agreement.

MoU*