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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Tuesday 08 August 2017 03:40 AM,
Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
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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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Thanks. And I understand that voting should also only be open only
to civil society participants. With civil society participants I
understand we mean those who represent a civil society organisation
and not a private or government organisation, or as civil society
individuals have no representational, or otherwise close and
obvious, association vis a vis Internet governance and policies with
any private or gov organisation.<br>
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I see mentioned somewhere in the BestBits docs that collective
decisions will be taken together only by civil society members, and
since appointment of a steering committee is one such important
collective decision it follows that voting for it should involve
only civil society members. One way to do is to of course pre
declare this condition, and then post a list of those voted so that
people would be able see where non CS people voted.... thanks,
parminder <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
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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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