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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jeremy Malcolm [<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org">mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 12, 2013 4:30 PM<br><b>To:</b> michael gurstein<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:cs-coord@lists.bestbits.net">cs-coord@lists.bestbits.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [bestbits] Call for expressions of interest: 1net steering committee</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>switching lists because this is not a Best Bits process issue. Ian has already provided some more detail in the next email in the thread, which crossed with yours. But generally, all of the liaisons were asked to choose their preferred candidates based on discussions within their networks (for example, on the Best Bits list several people spoke up in favour of Rafik), and these were tallied up. The three candidates mentioned had the most common support.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>-- </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Dr Jeremy Malcolm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>----------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>MG: </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ah, I see, you sat down with a couple of mates, licked your finger and tested the wind and then hey presto, the “result of the civil society coordination group process”--all of course conducted with that appropriate measure of democratic transparency and accountability that we so often expect of those to whom we pro-offer advice and comment. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And I particularly like the fact that you forgo humility and claim that this represents “<u>the</u> civil society … process”… not the false modesty of “<u>a</u> civil society process” or perhaps “a process among a small and self-selected group of civil society actors”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You are too modest, this model should be shared with the larger Civil Society community and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(And as I said in another email yesterday, this is not simply about process but specifically about representing (or not) the full range of CS positions and interests which your lack of an appropriate process deliberately, it appears, was designed to preclude.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Shame.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>