Commercial Development Restructuring

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Reasons for change

1. Standing Committees are supposed to have "standing" because they serve all ESIPs.
2. The Commercial Development Standing Committee was serving a small number of commercial ESIPs with the hope that this would serve to benefit all ESIPs. The original activities included developing an ecommerce section on the esipfed.org site. This was of interest to non-commercial ESIPs as a tool to reimburse the expense of delivering discs and maintaining user service personnel.
3. The proposed changes are in response to low participation in the Standing Committee with the hope that expanded activities will have broader interest.

Original Bylaw

Section 5: Standing Committee for Commercial Development

V.5.1 The ESIP Federation shall include a Standing Committee for Commercial Development. Its purpose is to foster commercial development of Earth science information. Its roles are:

a. To explore mutually beneficial activities with commercial providers of Earth science data, products, and services;

b. To provide ESIP partners with resources that will facilitate the development of commercially valuable products;

c. To develop organizational models and practices that will bridge between individual ESIP partner institutions, in order to facilitate the transfer of technology into the commercial for-profit sector;

d. To encourage and stimulate the development of the commercial activities of its partners and to encourage and stimulate the broader environmental informational economy.