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<font face="Verdana">Dear BestBits Steering Committee<br>
<br>
I know all of the below people and they make excellent candidates
for MAG...<br>
<br>
However, I remain strongly opposed to BestBits' process of
choosing reps or nominees.<br>
<br>
This is a process designed by the steering committee itself and
applied by it without due authorisation from the members of
BestBits.<br>
<br>
In IGC perhaps a lot did not happen because the large majority of
those present were a little apathetic to the general processes and
did not proffer their views actively on things. (Maybe that is a
structural condition of open online groups.) That was bad and
affected IGC's effectiveness since things could move forward only
with clearer and stronger engagement of enough members. We needed
enough mass for a rough consensus to change things or just to move
them forward.<br>
<br>
What I see on BestBits is that similar lack of strong engagement
by members (are there even any members, bec this is being called a
members-less *platform*) is being used to unilaterally make up
whatever processes and start applying it.<br>
<br>
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 in place.<br>
<br>
I had objected to this process a few days back and surprised to
see that it still went ahead...<br>
<br>
(Jeremy, did you not say on the private list that 'lets put
process issues on hold' and get on with substantive matters. It is
with this sensitivity that I have not responded to process related
issues recently. But was it to just stop any critical views on
process, which process formation and entrenchment just goes
forward.)<br>
<br>
parminder <br>
<br>
PS: Niether I nor any othee member of my organisation has sought
nomination to MAG...<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 20 November 2013 09:36 AM,
Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear all,</div>
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<div>Here are those who have been nominated for election or
re-election to the MAG by Best Bits participants. This list, if
agreed, would supplement (and may even be incorporated into,
subject to their approval) the lists that other civil society
groups such as the IGC put forward. But if a full or partial
joint nomination can't be accomplished, we will still try to
organise a joint letter to the UN Secretariat listing the
distinct slates of nominees and the different processes that
were used to put them together.</div>
<ol>
<li>Matthew Shears - Centre for Democracy and Technology (male,
USA)</li>
<li>Anriette Esterhuysen - APC [renewal] (female, South Africa)<br>
</li>
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<li>Nnenna Nwakanma - World Wide Web Foundation (female,
Nigeria)</li>
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<li>Bertrand de la Chapelle - Internet & Jurisdiction
Project (male, Europe)</li>
<li>Izumi Aizu [renewal] - Tama University, Institute for
HyperNetwork Society (male, Japan)</li>
<li>Ana Perdigao - various, see below (female, Europe)</li>
</ol>
<div>The steering committee did not exclude anyone whose
nomination we received, however in terms of the criteria that
were posted earlier, we draw attention to the fact that Ana
Perdigao is a "new face" to most of us, so we cannot verify how
closely she complies with them, notably being "active civil
society participants". She has been invited to post to this
list to introduce herself and to clarify this and any other
aspects. Meanwhile some biographical information that she sent
is below.[0]</div>
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<div>Most of the other candidates are well known to many of us,
but we invite them also to send biographies to the list if they
haven't already done so.</div>
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<div>
<div>With the above proviso, we are asking this list to endorse
the above as candidates for the MAG - not to the exclusion of
others, but at least to fill in some gaps in other lists, and
in order to possibly be incorporated into the IGC's list
(subject to their approval), this endorsement would have to be
made by midnight 21 November GMT/UTC.</div>
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<div><br>
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<div>Due to shortness of remaining time this will have to be an
"opt out" process, so if you would prefer that we NOT forward
any of the above candidate names, please let us know either by
posting to the list or to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:steering@lists.bestbits.net">steering@lists.bestbits.net</a>.
In case we need to extend the process, then we do have about 10
more days before the nominations have to be forwarded to the IGC
Secretariat, but we would not be able to join forces with the
IGC if our process goes beyond midnight 21 November GMT/UTC.</div>
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<div>[0] <span style="font-family: Calibri; text-align: justify;">Ana
writes: "I participated in the WSIS and taking part in several
panels on the multistakeholder approach. I have a legal
background and I am currently a Senior Consultant in ICT and
Internet in public affairs in Brussels. I am member of ISOC
and in particular of the Portuguese Chapter and the Italian
one. I am involved also in the Eurodig and this year I
attended my first IGF.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">I am also in the steering
committee of MediaLaws. I am correspondent for Portugal and
Italy for IRIS the Audiovisual Journal of the European
Audiovisual Observatory of the Council of Europe. I am a
member of the Association Suisse de droit International and
one of the co-founding members of the ONG Hemesphere, focus in
development and cooperation through culture. I am co-founder
of the association IdƏaree that has the aim to study the idea
of the modern identity through the geographic space, Europe
and the Member States, through culture. I am activist as well
with Unicef Brussels.</span></p>
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