duty, the Board shall retain both an independent auditor and a Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel. Formal Board meetings will be held on a regular basis, as defined in the Charter. Special Meetings of the Board can also be called by Board Members after sufficient notice is given as defined in the Charter. The Board has the authority to make final determinations of the retention of income. All non-retained income shall be distributed in proportion to representation on the Board. After Phase III becomes operational. Signatories will have the option of accepting their share of power (in proportion to their representation on the Board) generated in lieu of the share of non-retained income from the Space Solar Power Program Organization's sale of such power. The Board is also responsible for setting a management plan and appointing the Executive Body. International Inclusion In order to insure inclusive national representation in the Space Solar Power Program Organization, a mechanism will be in place to assist developing countries who otherwise would have difficulty participating. Both national and international bodies support developing countries with project- targeted financial assistance. Often, constraints are imposed on the funds which require the receiving nation to purchase goods from the donating body. As a result, these constraints may reduce the potential growth of the developing countries. As an alternative to this scheme, a donor could provide funds on behalf of a developing country to make such recipient country a Signatory of the Space Solar Power Program Organization. The Space Solar Power Program Organization would then make a good faith effort to allocate to the developing country a contract or subcontract roughly equivalent to the amount donated. In this way the donor would both be able to support the creation of technological expertise in developing countries and allow the inclusion of developing nations in the progressive development of the Space Solar Power Program Organization. To qualify, a country must make an application documenting its fulfillment of United Nations criteria for developing country status. It must further demonstrate areas of technology in which it could make contributions. These applications would then be reviewed by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel established by the Board of Governors. The Executive Body The Executive Body is responsible for carrying out the day-to-day operations of the organization in accordance with the decisions of the Board. Managers are assigned to each segment that requires the retention of subcontractors. 5.2.2 Management Structure This section describes the management structure which will be implemented in the Space Solar Power Program. The assumption was made that the management structure for the different phases of the program should not differ too much but should rather evolve from the Space to Space Beaming demonstrator ($80M, also refer to section 10.2) project to the Space to Earth Beaming demonstrator ($800M, also refer to section 10.3) project and birther on to the commercial power beaming program. The obvious advantage is that the organization of the demonstrator and its lessons learned will then not be discarded of, but will serve as the basis for the commercial Space Solar Power Program. Therefore a management structure was chosen which could easily grow. Although the management structure has to be quite large, it should be noted that effort shall be taken with the implementation of the structure, that the bureaucracy will be limited, such that the organization can function effectively and efficiently. This should also ensure that during the Space Solar Power Program, necessary technical or other changes can be implemented in a timely manner. In the following, the word program is used for all the different program phases, and only where differences are to be seen between the phases, will this be addressed. A detailed description is presented of the responsibilities of the functions in the organization chart of Figure 5.1.
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