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Participation and Communication

Project Working Document

This document is a working document for the project. It provides supporting information for project participants and viewers. It is not part of the project deliverables.

All UN/CEFACT approved projects issue a public call to participation for experts to contribute. The Global Trust Registry project call for participation was published in LinkedIn here:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/uncefact_global-trust-registry-activity-7318341834349371396-g_mY

To maximise the chance of success, the project needs representation from a meaningful and diverse group. We need participants with skills and experience across Registry operation and governance, transparency enabling technology (protocols not platforms), as well as business.

The project will remain open to requests to participate until it is closed.

Participation Principles​

The general guidance and encouragement is as follows:

  • All work will be developed, and all meetings held, on public channels. Anyone and everyone will be able to observe the project as it progresses.

  • All work is voluntary and unpaid.

  • We encourage contributors with expertise, passion and interest in this topic. We are interested in both technical and organisational/subject matter expertise.

  • All contributions will be subject to the UN/CEFACT intellectual property rights policy. We are developing open, voluntary, standards that organisations and countries can choose to adopt.

  • All those who wish to contribute rather than observe will need to register as a UN/CEFACT expert using this form https://uncefact.unece.org/display/uncefactpublic/UNCEFACT+Expert+Registration

  • Processing of applications is not seen by the project team and will typically involve your country Head of Delegation.
    If there is a delay (>2 weeks say) in your application, please contact the project team (john@sezoo.digital or anica@registradores.org) with details of your application (name and email address used, country etc.), and we will contact the UN/CEFACT secretariat to see if they can help.

Details on how to attend project meetings are described here.

Code of Conduct​

The UN CEFACT Open Development Process [^1] defines a code of conduct for all projects:

  1. The following principles should be followed by all members of Project Teams:

    1. To welcome participation by anyone designated as an expert by a Head of Delegation to UN/CEFACT.

      1. To encourage global input.

      2. To work collaboratively and effectively.

      3. To not incorporate specific hardware and/or proprietary software requirements into their processes or deliverables, or the implementation thereof.

      4. To understand and agree to be subject to the UN/CEFACT Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy.1

      5. To understand and agree to be subject to the UN/CEFACT Code of Conduct.2

Project Communication​

Group email : https://groups.io/g/UNCEFACTGlobalTrustRegistry

Slack Channel: https://uncefact.slack.com/archives/C0904NU8SN6

Footnotes​

  1. UN/CEFACT Intellectual Property Rights Policy ↩

  2. UN/CEFACT Code of Conduct ↩