1. National Electronic Balloting (NEB)
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National Electronic Balloting (NEB)
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2. National eBalloting (NEB)
Benefit:
Simpler consensus building, better voting performance, increased efficiency
The National eBalloting is a voting tool which manages two kind of national ballots:
National Committee Internal Ballot (NCIB)
Aim: Voting on national standards
National Positioning Ballot (NPOS)
Aim: Gaining national consensus before voting on an international or regional standard.
It provides information about ISO and/or CEN ballots relevant to each national committee.
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3. National Committee Internal Ballot (NCIB) Process
Aim: Voting on national standards
NATIONAL - NEB
Secretary creates a NCIB Ballot
Ballot status is pending – results not yet available
Secretary closes the NCIB Ballot -
Results available to audience
National Secretary
NCIB Ballot Opens
Voting phase closes
National experts
cast votes
National Experts (Voters)
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4. NCIB – summary of key features
Ballots created manually by Secretaries of national committees
Create questionnaires with multiple questions and possible answers
Upload documents for vote
Define a pending phase before ballot closure
Use pre-defined templates
Automatic notifications sent to the ballot audience
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5. Reaching national consensus without NEB
INTERNATIONAL
ISO ballot OPENS
ISO balloter cast vote manually
ISO ballot CLOSES
ISO balloter gather national opinions and cast vote
ISO Balloter
(CIB, DIS, FDIS)
NATIONAL
The ISO Balloter s the ballot information and documents to national secretaries and experts
National opinions are sent back by to the ISO balloter
National Secretaries
National Experts
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NB: Same is true for CEN ballots

6. National Positioning Ballot (NPOS) Process
Aim: Gaining national consensus before voting on an international or regional standard.
INTERNATIONAL
ISO ballot OPENS
NPOS Ballot is created
ISO balloter cast vote manually
ISO ballot CLOSES
NPOS
ISO ballot is created (copied) in NEB with questions and documents
Translation through templates
ISO Balloter
(CIB, DIS, FDIS)
NATIONAL (NEB)
…and transmit decision to ISO balloter
Secretary reviews votes & closes the Ballot
Sec. reviews ballot details
National Secretary
NPOS Ballot OPENS
Voting phase CLOSES
National experts
cast votes
National Experts
(voters)
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7. NPOS – summary of key features
Manually or automatically create new ballots
Mapping between national and international/regional committees is set in the Global Directory
Questions and possible answers and reference documents of source ballot are automatically copied
Define a pending phase before ballot closure
Use pre-defined ballot templates to translate international or regional English ballots into local language
Automatic notifications sent to the ballot audience
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8. Manual vs. automatic National Positioning
The National Positioning Ballots is automatically created when a ballot opens for ISO/TC 34
The National Secretary must create the National Positioning Ballots manually
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9. Balloting roles Surveyor:
Read-only access but can see all votes on open and closed ballots
Monitor:
Read-only access. Can view all ballots but only view votes on closed ballots
Voter (Balloter):
Cast vote on open ballots
Ballot Owner:
Create and initiate the ballot
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10. NEB – National configuration
Some aspects of the system can be configured to meet your specific needs, for example:
Time zone - Define local time zone for the display of the date.
Pending Phase - Activate or inactivate the pending phase by default at the ballot (NCIB and NPOS) creation
Close and open date delay - Define a default delay for the opening and closing date of NPOS (M&A) ballots in relation to the source ballot
External sources - Define the types of ballots for which you wish to have NPOS ballots (ISO and/or CEN, COPAN, MERCOSUR or other regional bodies)
Commenting template - Define your local commenting template for NCIB ballots (link to template)
Translation of the NEB interface – Terms to be define with ISOCS