Participation and self-organization

digital.auto does not require a membership, and does not collect membership fees. Collaboration in digital.auto is done by parcipipants.

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Role definition: digital.auto participant. A participant must have made at least one significant contribution (*) towards a digital.auto deliverable in the last 12 months. He/she can then run for seats and have voting rights on key decisions such as elections of the digital.auto Steering Committee, Work Group chairs, etc.

(*) Significant contribution: Can be co-authorship of a whitepaper, contribution to a digital.auto use case, participation in a digital.auto project, etc. Contribution must be publicly documented.

digital.auto aims for a pragmatic and transparent process when it comes to self-organization. Work is done in projects, which are self-funded and self-organizing. Projects are initiated, monitored and potentially decomissioned by the Steering Committee.

Steering Committee: The digital.auto Steering Committee (StC) is elected every two years. It consists of up to 6 representatives. Every active participant can apply. Elections are opened 4 weeks before the actual vote. Each applicant is given the chance to send an application letter to all active participants to introduce himself. The actual voting is done electronically and anonymous. A special election can be held to replace a Steering Committee member who resigns.