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Terms of Reference

Objective

The purpose of the Crisis Response Executive Advisory TEam, in support of the Information Technology and Crisis Management project (ITCM) and the Object Management Group’s (OMG) C4I Domain Task Force (C4I DTF), is to establish a more structured cooperation between international organisations and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) vendors, in order to deliver interoperability solutions and standards suited to humanitarian emergencies and modern crisis response and management.

Composition

The Executive Advisory Team shall comprise:

• Three representatives from the ITCM project's Executive Board 
• Three representatives from OMG's Board of Directors
• Representatives of major international organisations working in crisis response and management, humanitarian emergencies, as well as from foundations and research institutes

The intent is for the Executive Advisory Team to represent a worldwide constituency with participation from all geographic regions of the world. The Executive Advisory Team shall elect its Chair amongst its members.

The Executive Advisory Team is open to new members. However, the Executive Advisory Team reserves the right to adopt its own criteria and procedures for admission and exclusion of its members as it may see fit.

Operations

The ongoing secretariat for operations (meetings, notices, minutes, etc.) of the Executive Advisory Team shall be managed jointly by ITCM and OMG. The Executive Advisory Team shall normally convene at least once a year at the invitation of its Chair. Invitations to the Executive Advisory Team meetings, communicating the proposed agenda, shall be dispatched by the operations secretariat at least one month in advance. Meeting participation costs shall be borne by the participants.

Responsibilities

The Executive Advisory Team shall serve as a consultative body and shall assist the ITCM project and the OMG in the implementation of their duties. In particular, the Executive Advisory Team shall have the following responsibilities:

1. Advise on the strategic vision for the coming years in developing ICT systems and standards for crisis response and management
2. Communicate the developments and changes in the needs and requirements of ICTs humanitarian and crisis response and management organisations use
3. Recommend areas for further research to support the development and deployment of the ITCM system and related international research programmes
4. Recommend areas and priorities for fruitful future standardisation of OMG's C4I ((Consultation, Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence) systems
5. Periodically evaluate the continued relevance of OMG's C4I systems and the ITCM project
6. Support the ITCM project and OMG's C4I systems in their promulgation of ICT research results and standards