Board and Steering Group

• Sarah shared the agenda of coming board meeting (Sept.24th). Detailed agenda and materials are available here.
  
• Teemu shared many pieces of good news in his video briefing for the September board meeting.
  
• Sille put forward a motion to appove 2 new individual members and 1 new organisation member.
  

Community

• Teemu informed everyone the key motions and announcements of the Extraordinary General Meeting (Tuesday 29th September 9AM CEST) in a short video briefing.
  
  • Approval of financial statement 2019 and relief of responsibility for the Board of 2019
    
  • Approval of Branding Regulations
    
  • Approval of Code of Conduct
    
  • Info on Autumn General Meeting and the elections
    
• Jogi reshared a report (Mechanisms to Govern Responsible Sharing of Open Data: A Progress Report) on data governance.
  
• Several governance related reading materials shared by Viivi and Jogi.
  
  • Data Stewardship Landscape Scan v.01
    
  • ShiftingPower.pdf
    
  • Who is trying
    
• Paul-Olivier triggered a healthy debate on latest developments of Google/Apple Exposure Notification amoung fellow members.
• Alessandro inspired the Desing channel with a document on design space for data stewards.
  Understanding Data Stewardship - Aapti Institue is available here.
  
• Alessandro propsed a design group's meeting during MyData Online 2020 to plan activities for next year and agree on the new charter.
  
• MyData4Pandemics had a call on Wednesday September 23rd; running meeting minutes available
• MyData Operators had a call on Wednesday September 23rd; running memo available
  
• Skillsdata kickoff meeting on Thursday September 24th; Jogi gave a brief introduction in video; slide available
  
• Ansku asked fellow members to share any exciting communities news.
  
  • close a big deal, receive recognition
    
  • write a blog post/article/white paper etc.
    
  • host or present in a webinar
    
  • get something else :done: in the MyData sphere?
    
  • Or are you organising any MyData related activity in the coming month?
    
• Joss offered his professional services to fellow hub initiators in spreading MyData Operators vision; Slide deck available here
  

Funding Opportunities

• Teemu shared a funding opportunity (European AI Fund) in the area where pubic and policy discourse on AI can be influenced.
  
  • Important Timeline: 1 November 2020 - Call for funding closes
    
  • Size of the grants: ranging from 20,000Euro to 150,000Euro each, total funding budget up to 1 million Euro.
    
  • Duration of grants: up to 18 months