Drew North Services Inc. (DNS) is a strategic management consulting firm based in Vancouver, Canada.
DNS specializes in finding better ways with its clients to solve problems and reach their goals, with specific expertise in elections.
In 1989, DNS founder Graeme Drew was invited to instruct on a part-time basis at the main campus of the Native Education College in Vancouver, Canada. This appointment expanded to course delivery at the NEC campuses in Terrace and Williams Lake, BC between 1990 and 2002.
Graeme enjoyed the experience while maintaining his consultancy and subsequently accepted a more involved administrative assignment that required him to relocate for sixteen months (between November 2012 and March 2014) to an isolated indigenous community in northern Canada. The primary objectives of this assignment were to i) design and implement a financial recovery plan, ii) update and ratify a custom election code, and iii) train/mentor a local member to assume his role of Senior Administrative Officer responsible for administering a staff of about twenty individuals. A Custom Election Code was updated and ratified in January 2014 then used in its election later that year.
Shortly afterwards, DNS was retained by another First Nation in the Northwest Territories to update and ratify its Custom Election Code. The community consultation process involved public meetings, workshops, door-to-door canvassing of input, and house visits with elders in this remote Arctic community. The ratification process featured electronic voting (for the first time in northern Canada) enabling its electors living outside the community to vote privately either online or by phone. Members of the student government in the local school were recruited to assist in getting out the vote, and the quorum threshold was reached after an extended voting period, resulting in its first ever written and ratified custom election code.
Recent assignments have focused almost exclusively on administering fair elections and membership votes for indigenous communities in Western and Northern Canada. Several of these elections and voting events have successfully integrated online voting technology.
This work also involves writing, amending, and ratifying custom election codes (laws) following community consultation sessions and member surveys.
Graeme Drew assembles and leads work teams based on client and project requirements.
Services are provided based on an agreed work plan with corresponding timeline and budget. The work can be scheduled on a project basis with specific deliverables, or on a retainer basis. Services are typically delivered through a combination of on-site work with client, and off-site work from the DNS offices. Extended on-site work visits have been carried out for unique situations.
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Drew North Services (DNS) Inc.
#404 - 999 Canada Place
Vancouver, BC V6C 3E2
Canada
Graeme Drew, CEO
Phone 604.649.2044
gd.drewnorth@gmail.com
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Drew North Services (DNS) Inc.
#404 - 999 Canada Place
Vancouver, BC V6C 3E2
Canada
Graeme Drew, CEO
Phone 604.649.2044
gd.drewnorth@gmail.com