The Ayra Association (formerly GAN) is pleased to announce the appointment of an additional eight Ayra Ambassadors. They are:
- Lyn Brooks, Principal, dHub Group, Canada
- Görkem Çokçetin, Senior Digital Transformation Cloud Expert-Finance Sector & Digital Natives, Oracle, UAE & Turkey
- Hajji Mostafa Karim, Founder & Certified Social Entrepreneur, Muslim Marriage Services, United Kingdom
- Sharon Leu, Executive In Residence, JFFLabs, Jobs for the Future, United States
- Ioanna Noula, Founder, The Children’s Online Redress Sandbox, Greece
- Saarah Shah, Product Manager, Publicis Sapient, United Kingdom
- Anushka Soma-Patel, Product Manager, Ecosystem, Input Output (IOHK), South Africa
- Satyajit Suri, Digital Identity Expert, ID4D Initiative, The World Bank, India
“Ayra shall be open to all parties who have a direct stake in its mission; it shall give equitable representation to all such stakeholders; and it shall not give preference to any single stakeholder or group of stakeholders.”
It was important to implement this principle from the very beginning of the Ayra Association. This is why the Phase 1 governing body, called the Member Advisory Council (MAC), needed to consist of equal numbers of Ayra Founder representatives and Ayra Ambassadors. Achieving this balance between commercial interests and the public interest is vital to building sustainable governance for decentralized digital trust infrastructure. Stay tuned for more updates on the work the Ayra Governance Team is doing to form a long-term nonprofit governing body.