ITarvot

ITarvot is a term used in information technology governance to denote structured digital voting processes used to decide on IT-related proposals within an organization. In practice, ITarvot describes the combination of a proposal workflow with a voting mechanism, enabling stakeholders such as developers, managers, and users to express preferences on architectural choices, policy updates, resource allocation, and feature prioritization. The concept emphasizes transparency, auditability, and inclusivity, while aiming to accelerate consensus in distributed teams.

Implementation typically involves proposal submission, voter eligibility rules, ballot design (for example single-choice or ranked-choice), a voting period, result counting, and post-vote audit. Security and privacy measures include authentication, end-to-end verifiability, encrypted ballots, and tamper-evident logs. Data governance considerations focus on traceability and access control to ensure that votes reflect informed participation.

Challenges include ensuring adequate participation, avoiding bias, securing against vote manipulation, and balancing speed with due diligence. ITarvot applications are seen in open-source projects, internal enterprise IT governance, and community-driven standards processes where multiple stakeholders must agree on technical directions or budgets.

Criticism notes that not all IT decisions benefit from voting, and that technical evaluation is sometimes essential to understand trade-offs, making governance processes also rely on deliberation and expert input. See also e-voting, digital governance, IT governance, participatory decision-making.