<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On 15 Nov 2013, at 2:25 pm, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font face="Verdana">I dont see the need for BB to get into making recs for MAG
membership when IGC seems to do a good - and much better
insitutionalised - way of doing. If the fear is that some people
may not be on the IGC - which i not too sure of - BB can forward
nomination to the IGC process.<br>
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However, if BB just insists on having its own MAG nominaiton
process, I oppose steering committee on its own making the
selections (a post facto confirmation by the list - the process of
which I could not understand, is of no use bec no one from the
list is going to object to any name which is listed as selected by
the steering committee) .... This does not go with BB's platform
image projection.... and in any case does not look like a good
process to follow.<br></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>The steering committee would not be making selections, just suggestions to the main list. But in this case I don't think that it will be necessary to do even that, because we've only received one nomination so far, so we will doubtless be suggesting the list approve their inclusion by default. (A good reason for the low interest may be that the IGF MAG appointment is probably not the most important issue that we face right now - there are more important things to be addressing with the Brazil conference, the UN on surveillance, the TPP IP chapter, etc.)</div><div><br></div><div>You are right that there are definitely some participants in Best Bits who are not, and don't want to be, members of the IGC, and I'm not sure that telling such people to nominate through the IGC is the right answer, because the IGC nomcom would not have as much reason to select other civil society representatives who are not involved with the IGC. Having said that, in this instance the chair of the IGC nomcom has suggested that we could also forward our nominees to the IGC nomcom for consideration, so we can do exactly what you have suggested, whilst maintaining our own process too.</div><div><br></div><div>Note that there are other groups too that are doing their own nominations, with whom we've been discussing and there's been a general desire to try for a joint process this year. If the IGC nomcom (which, as you say, has the least flexible procedures) is able to incorporate the other groups' nominations, that would be one way of doing it. If not, then another way would be forwarding one message to UNOG with several different slates of candidates, along with explanations of who chose them and what procedures they used to do so.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a way of testing the waters for the kind of unified civil society nomination process that we will need soon for purposes such as the Brazil summit... oops, conference.</div><div><br></div><div>So we are trying this and will see how it goes. In terms of timing, we would have to go back to the main list with the nominee/s for approval <b>this week</b>, as that is the deadline by which the IGC nomcom will be accepting nominations. So we are seeking any further nominations to <a href="mailto:steering@lists.bestbits.net">steering@lists.bestbits.net</a> or this list by say <b>20 November</b>.</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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