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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Saturday 05 August 2017 09:55 AM,
parminder wrote:<br>
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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>
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i realise that this above sentence is incomplete. So please ass at
its end:<br>
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Comma, such a condition be put in the nomination process. <br>
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thanks, parminder <br>
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<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>
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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>
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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>
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<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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