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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 20 November 2013 12:45 PM,
Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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On 20 Nov 2013, at 1:25 pm, parminder <<a
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style="font-family: Verdana;">As said before, I do not
agree to steering committee choosing MAG nominees, or
other kinds of reps, or next steering committee's
membership, and so on.... These are serious. important
issues which should have a clear, transparent, accountable
and thus legitimate process around it. And I dont see that
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<div>We have not chosen the MAG nominees, we have simply
collected the nominations, suggested criteria that could be
used to evaluate them, and forwarded them back to the main
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No one on the 'main list' is going to say, no, this person selected
by steering committee is not right, and such.... we all know that.
Therefore the process is of de facto selection by steering
committee..Reference to the main list becomes just a fig leaf. BTW,
if it is indeed only a recommendation to the main list, what is the
process of actual selection by the main list - since if steering
committee only makes recs, then the actual selection is made by the
main list.... And you say below that there are no members of
Bestbits (BB) ! All this is highly contradictory, which can set the
scene for some people to do as they wish. Not that I am accusing
that is already the situation. <br>
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As to the point that steering committee having just forwarded all
names (bec this time there were only that many names).... a
precedent of nominee/ rep selection by steering committee is being
set up, and it will be used then to institutionalise the process...
This method of building the BB coalitions structures is not
acceptable to me.... Such important processes have to accepted not
by default - by no- one -said- anything-to-the-contrary logic - but
by express consent of an overwhelming majority of members. That is a
'best practice' for civil society coalitions the world over, and BB
cannot use the expedient of just calling itself a 'platform' and not
a coalition, and thus avoiding legitimate processes.... While at
the same time it seeks to take up so many 'powers' for itself, which
prima facie are very unlike 'platform' nature of any structure....
These are glaring contradictions that must be resolved, collectively
by all BB members.... If separate working group lists can be made to
address substantive issues why cant such a group also be set up to
finalise processes and structures for BB...<br>
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<div>Although your objection was noted, most others were
comfortable with this process</div>
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I am not sure. I want to expressly hear them.... Silences cannot be
taken as assent for such serious matters, including deciding the
role and powers of steering committee - which include rep
selections. To me, sorry to say, it sounds as a self serving process
or rather a non-process. <br>
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<div> and since we do not have voting or membership as such, we
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So, we really have no membership! There are no BB members! There is
just a steering committee of BB, right. That is BB. Nothing else. Is
this the status... We at ITfC need to know bec we were one of the
founding members. <br>
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No, this form and structure of BB is not adequately discussed and
settled.... Some people just proposed it, basically existing
steering committee members, and nothing happened after that.... This
situation cannot be taken as having settled the matter in the way
steering committee has decided it will be... <br>
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Lastly, why cant these names just be sent to IGC nomcom process? IT
is a much more clearly institutionalised as well as well set out
process, with transparency and accountability. <br>
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And unlike what was claimed earlier, by you I think, IGC nomcom has
always been mandated to collect and forward names from a broader
civil society space and *not* just IGC, and it has done so in the
past... In fact I nominated one name to the process who I am not
sure is on the IGc list. <br>
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Parminder <br>
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<div> If appropriate your objection could probably be noted in
some way in the letter that goes to the MAG.</div>
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