[EC-NCSG] Gender, region & application form

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Aug 06 10:01, Rudi Vansnick (rudi.vansnick at isoc.be) wrote:

> One aspect I would highlight here (as a European) : the privacy
> rules for Europe are quite interesting and we should ask ourselves
> if the info is requested by an USA based organisation or not ? If
> yes, requesting gender information would require in Belgium at least
> some extra procedures.

Good point. Are we USA-based?

For NCUC, only about 25% of members are American.
On the other hand, some 75% are non-European.

But indeed even for an European-based organization there're
restrictions there, at least there has to be a legitimate
documented need for it. I think a gender diversity requirement
in charter would suffice for that, however.

> Based on the names very often it is possible to define the gender of
> the person.

Yes, but not always and not 100% reliably.
And even such a determination is subject to privacy laws,
if it is done systematically and especially is gender
thus determined is saved in a database.

> In the context of NPOC, we only have organisations and as such the
> gender is less critical material, at the end it is the organisation
> joining NPOC.

Yes. I brought up the issue of organizations' representatives, because
at least in theory you might have some kind of need to show gender
distribution as well and organizations as such don't have gender.

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Tapani Tarvainen