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Subject: [election-services] Candidate statement - Charbel Aoun
Mary and all Allow me to start by saying thank you to
John Borras for leading the efforts and for all the work he did. It was a great
pleasure working with him for the last few years. Please find below my candidate statement. Regards Charbel J. Aoun My
work with XML started back in 2000 at election.com. In my capacity as Vice
President International Operation, I was the key sponsor to introduce
interoperability and open standards in the e-voting industry. This was the
outcome of our early multi-channel work (Internet and Telephone), the demand by
our government clients for flexibility in suppliers’ choice and the universal
consensus that interoperability is the key to Election verifiability. With
election.com R&D team we produced the first schemas known at the time as BML
(Ballot Mark-up Language) which became later the core of today’s EML. I
am a co-founder of the Election Services Committee, co-author of the first EML
specifications and remains to date an influential ambassador of EML. Having
said that, and as my colleagues in the committee would recall me always saying,
EML is still at its very early stages and requires much more practical efforts
and testing on the ground. This would be achieved by expanding the circle of
practical adoption and implementation. We will use the work done in the Our
greatest challenge is the active dissemination and wider adoption of EML. In
that respect our first order of business will be to find the best vehicle to achieve
this for which I see two key milestones: new A
brief action plan would include the following:
Over
the last 7 years, I was in charge of
the implementation of large scale major multi-channel e-voting projects internationally
with responsibility over cross-cultural, diverse and virtual teams. I have worked
with the election requirements across US, Charbel J. Aoun International Director of Technology & Operation Mobile 0044 794 925 2143 Office 0044 207 616 8414 Accenture
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