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If you would like to contact an appropriate working group about an issue facing GV, you can directly contact the person listed as the “chair” below, either on the Global Voices Slack, or using the email listed for them on the Our People page of globalvoices.org.
See also Roles and Responsibilities.
Design
Mandate: Collectively review design strategy, ideas, and set priorities for GV. Plan testing, review results, and agree on implementations.
Membership: Tech Lead (chair), all interested Core Team members, key non-Core stakeholders
Frequency: Bi-weekly (Wednesdays)
Development and Fundraising
Mandate: Support and coordination of organizational development
Activities: Identification of new opportunities, fundraising, proposal writing, and building and operationalizing alternative revenue models
Membership: Executive Director (chair), Managing Director, Managing Editor, Rising Voices Director, Lingua Director, Associate Editors, Civic Media Observatory Project Manager, other interested stakeholders
Frequency: Weekly (Tuesdays)
Editorial
Mandate: To shape strategy and plan editorial work, to review work of the Newsroom and gather feedback, to update larger team on progress on editorial projects, to discuss and plan personnel needs.
Membership: Managing Editor (chair), Managing Director, Executive Director, Rising Voices Director, Lingua Director, Associate Editors
Frequency: Bi-weekly (Wednesdays)
Community Communications
Mandate: Optimize our community communications channels to eliminate confusing and unused ones, and build new channels that reach more users.
Activities:
- Develop protocols for regularly sharing important information with the community, by the most appropriate means for the message
- Establishing best-practices for sub-community communications e.g. regional groups and supporting local managers in using them
- Ensure bi-directional feedback is possible throughout community comms
- Handle feedback from the community related to communications
- Ensure orientation materials are complete, up to date, and integrated into onboarding
Membership: Rising Voices Director (chair), Tech Lead, Managing Director
Frequency: Bi-weekly (Wednesdays)
Lingua
Mandate: Ensure Lingua integration with GV sections, discuss and implement new ideas and evaluate and execute future strategy.
Activities
- Review and improve Lingua technical platform and workflows
- Collaborate on Lingua<>Newsroom integration
- Developing special projects
- Assess and evaluate reporting/stats and generally speaking
- Lingua priorities and future strategy
- Innovation and discussing new ideas
Membership: Lingua Director (chair), all interested Core Team members
Frequency: As needed
Operations
Mandate: Oversee decisions related to infrastructure, logistics, and infosafety to facilitate operational crossover between departments.
Activities
- Evaluate and select internal communication tools, taking infosafety into account
- Design and support onboarding infrastructure and process in consultation with relevant managers
- Advise on security protocols for vulnerable community members
Membership: Managing Director (chair), Tech Lead, Operations Manager, others as needed
Frequency: Every 4 weeks (Fridays)
Partnerships
Mandate: Ensure the effective functioning of GV’s partnership process
Activities:
- Review new republication partner applications
- Establish best practice guidelines, including encouraging reciprocal partnerships
Membership: Rising Voices Director, Managing Editor, Managing Director
Frequency: Bi-weekly (Wednesdays)
Social Media
Mandate: To ensure the effective integration of social media into Global Voices’ activities
Membership: Outreach Team Lead (chair), Managing Director, Executive Director, Managing Editor
Frequency: Every four weeks on Tuesday, starting June 8, 2021
Training
Mandate: Strategize on developing and implementing training programs across GV in multiple languages, including identifying funding opportunities
Activities:
- Designing multilingual training and workshop modules
- Identifying topics of interest within GV to focus training on
- Running relevant training programs both internally (for the Global Voices community) and externally (for external partners and the general public)
- Work with the development working group in identifying and applying for funding opportunities related to training
- Communicating training opportunities to the Global Voices Community
Membership: Civic Media Observatory Project Manager (chair), all interested Core Team members, key non-Core stakeholders
Frequency: Bi-weekly (Wednesdays)
