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On 4/8/17 9:25 pm, parminder wrote:<br>
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<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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Good question! Per item 4 of the Best Bits procedures document,
"Candidacy is open to civil society participants only."<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, such a
condition be put in the nomination process</font>.</p>
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There is no specific qualification about financial accountability
but people can address this in their statements. For those who rate
this as important, they will take its presence or absence into
account in their voting.<br>
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Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Global Policy Analyst
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161
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