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IAOA-IT Extraordinary Assembly - November 2021
A final, extraordinary assembly of the membership of IAOA domiciled in Italy is being called in November 2021, in accordance with the Association Statute and other legal requirements. The main purpose is to decide on the dissolution of the Association in Italy, in the context of its relocation to Switzerland. Details will be developed and presented on this page.
Events and Time-table
- Pre-Announcement of Assembly: 29 October 2021
- Announcement of Assembly: 09 November 2021
- IAOA Assembly called to order (by the IAOA-IT President): 22 November 2021 at 17:00 GMT/UTC
- (regional times: 09:00 PST / 12:00 EST / 18:00 CET / Tue 02:00 JST, cf. also [1])
- Ballots related to the dissolution (see agenda below) are open/non-secret
- Minutes of results: in this document
Terms of Reference
Please refer to the IAOA Statute as of May 25, 2012, as linked near the bottom of [2], especially Art. 18 (Assembly) and Art. 29 (Dissolution).
Quorum, Participants & Proxies
- Quorum for the Assembly to be validly constituted:
- 50% + 1 of all members, i.e., 14 out of 25 members
- Dissolution requires "a favourable vote of at least three quarters of the Members":
- 75% of all members, i.e., 19 out of 25 members
Overall participation as of Mon, Nov 22, 15:30 UTC:
- 21 in total plus likely 1 plus weakly-possibly 2
- 15 present online (or 14 + 1 more by proxy for RM)
- 6 additionally via proxy (SB, NG, OK, MM, LO, BS)
- 1 likely additionally present online (AC)
- 2 open proxy requests (MK, WK)
Expecting
| Count | Initials | Surname, first name | has proxy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JA | Almeida, João Paulo | GG |
| 2 | KB | Baclawski, Ken | |
| 3 | JB | Bateman, John | |
| 4 | AC | Cohn, Anthony | |
| 5 | RF | Ferrario, Roberta | |
| 6 | AG | Galton, Antony | LV |
| 7 | MG | Gruninger, Michael | |
| 8 | GG | Guizzardi, Giancarlo | JA |
| 9 | JH | Hastings, Janna | LJ |
| 10 | HH | Herre, Heinrich | |
| 11 | LJ | Jansen, Ludger | JH |
| 12 | FL | Loebe, Frank | |
| 13 | FN | Neuhaus, Fabian | LV |
| 14 | RM | Mizoguchi, Riichiro | ? FN ? |
| 15 | LO | Obrst, Leo | KB |
| 16 | LV | Vieu, Laure | |
| 17 | AV | Vizedom, Amanda | KB |
Regrets
| Count | Initials | Surname, first name | has proxy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | SB | Borgo, Stefano | JB |
| 19 | NG | Guarino, Nicola | RF, GG |
| 20 | MK | Keet, Maria | ? FL ? |
| 21 | WK | Kuhn, Werner | ? MG ? |
| 22 | OK | Kutz, Oliver | FL |
| 23 | MM | Musen, Mark | RF |
| 24 | BS | Smith, Barry | MG |
| 25 | ZW | Wood, Zena |
Agenda, ballot items and accompanying material
Agenda
- Communication
- on the act of dissolution
- on the role of liquidator
- on a Financial Report by Nov 17, 2021
- Ballot with multiple votes, regarding:
- on adopting the Financial Report of Nov 17, 2021
- on the dissolution of IAOA-IT
- on which association to donate the remaining assets to
- on who is appointed as liquidator
- Any other business (incl. thanks to everyone)
Ballot items
- 2.1 [motion] Membership accepts the Financial Report by Nov 17, 2021
- 2.2 [motion] IAOA-IT is to be dissolved
- 2.3 [motion] liquidator transfers any assets that remain near the end of the liquidation process to Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
- 2.4 [motion] appoint Laure Vieu as liquidator
For full versions of the motions, please see the Minutes document.
Ballot results
All four ballots passed **unanimously**.
