General Assembly 2024 – Voting Form

Below please find the voting form for the General Assembly 2024 motions and Leadership Board elections.

Members should select one option (Support, Do Not Support, Abstain) for each of the proposals and each of the Leadership Board candidates.

Details on WHERE, WHEN, WHO and HOW to vote and HOW votes will be counted can be found below the voting form.

Voting Information

WHERE to vote: Voting will be conducted through a voting form on the ITD Alliance website. A link to the form will be sent by email and will also be linked from the General Assembly 2024 web page (https://itd-alliance.org/general-assembly-2024/).

WHEN to vote: The voting form will be available from 17 October through 31 October (through midnight of last time zone).

WHO can vote: Active members (individual or institutional fees current as of 15 October 2024).

  • Individual members will have one vote each.
  • Individual members officially registered with the ITD Alliance through active institutional memberships will have one vote each (individual names must have been registered by the institutional representative).

HOW to vote: Members must enter their name and email address in the voting form to ensure only eligible members vote and vote only once. Once membership has been verified, voting forms will be anonymized (names removed and replaced with random ID numbers). Forms submitted by inactive members or non-members will be discarded. Duplicate forms will be discarded.

Members should select one option (Support, Reject/Do Not Support, Abstain) for each of the proposals and each of the Leadership Board candidates (only up to 7 “Support” votes for Leadership Board candidates).

HOW votes will be counted: For motions 1-7 below, if two-thirds of voting forms Support a motion, the motion will be carried. For election of Leadership Board members, please see below.

    Leadership Board Elections

    Seven Leadership Board positions are available. How they will be allocated depends on the outcome of the votes for motions 5 and 6 above.

    If motions 5 and 6 above are supported:

    • – The top-ranking candidate who is a member representing an institutional member from Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, or the Middle East and North Africa will be elected.
    • – The other two top-ranking candidates who are members representing institutional members will be elected.
    • – Excluding the candidates above, the top ranking four candidates from Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, or the Middle East and North Africa will be elected. (If there are not 4 candidates in total, the balance of the positions will be left vacant and reserved for the 2025 Leadership Board elections.) If there are four or more candidates and all are individual members (i.e. there are no members representing institutional members), then the Leadership Board would have 9 rather than the required 10 (two-thirds of 15) members representing institutional members. In that case there will be a motion calling for a vote to agree to a temporary suspension of the bylaws, allowing the composition of the 2024-26 Leadership Board to have 9 and not 10 members representing institutions.

    If motions 5 and 6 above are rejected:

    • – The 4 top ranking candidates who are members representing institutional members will be elected
    • – The highest ranking remaining candidates (individual members or members representing institutional members) will be elected to fill the remaining 3 places on the Leadership Board.