Governance groups

Technical Committee

For the Common Approach standards to be truly community-driven, the substantive direction of each standard will be undertaken by technical committees of engaged users and people with expert knowledge. The Committee works to ensure that the Common Impact Data Standard and Common Form are driven by community and meet the needs of social purpose organizations, social financial institutions, and software organizations.

The members of the Technical Committee are responsible for drafting revisions to standards, with focus areas determined by users of the standards. Every time a new draft version of the standards has been developed by the technical committee, the draft will then be shared with the users of the standard and all other interested parties for input. All comments will be addressed before the publication of the final revised standard.

Each Technical Committee is composed of five to eight individuals. Committee members are selected for their expertise and enthusiasm. Alongside the Pathfinder Pilot, they help to formulate and test our processes of user input and participation.

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Meet the Technical Committee

Technical Committee

James Arruda

Senior Impact Measurement Specialist, Indigenous Youth Roots - IYR

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Chantal Buard

Co-Founder & CEO, Impact Atlas

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Sylvain Carle

Director, CI/VIC: Canadian Impact / Venture Investment Coalition

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Alex Castner

Chief platform architect, threshold.world

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Mark S. Fox

Professor of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science, Distinguished Professor of Urban Systems Engineering, Founding Director, Centre for Social Services Engineering

Dr. Mark Fox is a Distinguished Professor of Urban Systems Engineering, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science, Senior Advisor for the School of Cities, and Founding Director of the Centre for Social Services Engineering at the University of Toronto. Mark pioneered the field of Constraint-Directed Scheduling and the development of Ontologies for modelling Enterprises. He is currently investigating the application of Ontologies to the representation and utilization of urban knowledge, including social services, transportation and water & sanitation. Mark is also an entrepreneur having co-founded Carnegie Group Inc. in 1984, a software company that specialized in Artificial Intelligence-based systems, and co-founded and was CEO of Novator Systems Ltd., a pioneer in e-retail software and services.

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