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<p><font face="Verdana">Thanks Jeremy</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">Two questions.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">One, is there any qualification that the
nominated person should be from a civil society organisation, or
if acting as an individual having to declare that s/he acts as a
civil society actor and represents no non- civil society
organisation? I mean, what if a person who comes from a private
company with active Internet policy interests, a business
interests advocacy group, or is otherwise substantially working
with business sector on Internet policy areas, gets nominated?<br>
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<p><font face="Verdana">Two, on a separate note; going into bestbits
history, and it having been formed to gather serious civil
society groups, or different kinds, to possibly be able to act
together, and that, as you observed in your paper, Just Net
Coalition guys broke away from the effort on account on issues
of whether steering committee members should disclose their
"basic" organisational (or otherwise) funding information, to
the level that is normally understood to considered as a civil
society accountability standard</font>.</p>
<p>Thought I just ask these.</p>
<p>parminder<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Saturday 05 August 2017 02:38 AM,
Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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Following on from a previous thread, I am announcing that I am now
receiving nominations from those interested in forming a new
steering committee for Best Bits. I won't be running myself,
because I will be acting as returning officer. If there is
insufficient interest to form a steering committee or if the list
votes not to appoint those who volunteer, then the current more
informal status quo will continue.<br>
<br>
The current <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://bestbits.net/wiki/main/procedures/">procedures</a>
(rules) for Best Bits suggest a steering committee size of 10
(largely because of some ambitious targets for regional
representation), but in my view this is far too large. In any
case, the procedures allow us to fall back to a smaller committee
if not enough volunteers run. In my opinion about 5 nominees
would be a decent number.<br>
<br>
The procedure and the associated deadlines will be as follows:<br>
<ul>
<li>If you are interested in running for a position in the new
steering committee, please forward the following details to me
personally by <b>14 August 2017 </b>(you may cc the list,
but you don't have to). If you want to nominate someone else,
please get their consent first, then follow the same
procedure:</li>
<ul>
<li>Your name and institutional affiliation</li>
<li>Your gender (this is required because of a gender balance
provision in the procedures)<br>
</li>
<li>Your agreement to the Best Bits <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://bestbits.net/wiki/main/procedures/">guiding
principles</a></li>
<li>If you plan to represent a specific region (Sub-saharan
Africa, Middle East and North Africa, East/Southeast Asia
and -Pacific, South Asia, Latin America and Caribbean,
Europe, North America/Other), which one and on what basis
(eg. residency, citizenship, or both)</li>
<li>A statement about your candidacy of between 100-250 words</li>
</ul>
<li>If at least 5 nominations are received, I will proceed to
set up an online election and distribute voting tokens to all
those have been subscribed to the list for 2 months prior to
the election being called. The voting tokens will be
distributed on <b>21 August 2017</b>. Even if fewer
nominations are received than places, the election will still
be held because "No candidate" will be included as an option,
for those who do not wish one or more candidates to serve as
steering committee members.<br>
</li>
<li>The election will be open for 10 days closing on <b>31
August 2017</b>.</li>
<li>I will announce the results of the election on <b>1
September 2017</b> and the result will either be that the
candidates take office, or that we need to reach a consensus
on the list about whether to accept the results of the
election notwithstanding that it does not fully comply with
the standards set out in the procedures (eg. if there is a
poor gender balance).</li>
</ul>
<p>If anyone has questions about this process please let me know.
Otherwise, I will start receiving nominations between now and 14
August. Thanks and best of luck!<br>
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161
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