What organisational structure is envisaged for ISPO at the global level?
The form and structure of the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO), functioning at the global level, currently exists through informal consensus agreements between voluntary participants effected through email exchanges. When formalised in due course, however, ISPO is expected to assist in coordinating the campaigning actions of the NSPOs and to facilitate the process of formulating and negotiating SPs policy measures in conjunction with the NSPOs. The process of policy formulation is expected to take place via a Global Policy Board (GPB) comprising internationally respected but independent expert advisers. (These need not necessarily be SP adopters; and the possibility is envisaged that the work of the GPB, to optimise the expertise required, could be delegated through mutual negotiation to an NGO that shares ISPO’s objectives.) The GPB would be required to propose SP policy measures taking into account proposals from individual members. And it would broker modificati