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<DIV>I like b. We have seen throughout the last century several classic attempts to incorporate a "member of the party" electoral process. So often countries claimed elections were open and honest and in fact had huge turnouts. But you could only vote for a "party candidate". Too often US and UK elections reach the same result and there is a constant revolt against the notion.</DIV>
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<DIV>Of course I hope this is consistent with my view that the (that is we*) play a more influencial role. That open, well supervised, public forum lists be the genesis for more input. That consensus play a role but that minority views be given weight so that the majority conclusions can be more pure and less watered down.</DIV>
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<DIV>So I think we should keep nominations open open open for those with a proven desire for public service (like Ginger and Jeremy).</DIV>
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<DIV>* I appreciate very much using this concept as descriptive of the IGC. It is what is mostly desired to be achieved and I think <STRONG><EM>we</EM></STRONG> do a good job of it.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 6/8/10, Jeremy Malcolm <I><jeremy@ciroap.org></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy@ciroap.org><BR>Subject: [governance] [2 of 6] How best to nominate non governmental members for the MAG?<BR>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR>Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 4:26 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv766053008>Continuing the questions from the MAG questionnaire (<A href="http://intgovforum.org/cms/the-preparatory-process/510" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://intgovforum.org/cms/the-preparatory-process/510</A>), comes the second question:
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<DIV><B>How best to nominate non governmental members for the MAG?</B></DIV>
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<DIV>Some options are:</DIV>
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<DIV>(a) The existing "black box" approach whereby the United Nations Secretary General selects from a range of nominees put forward by various parties - selection criteria are not publicly available.</DIV>
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<DIV>(b) The IGC (that is, we) could choose, based on certain selection criteria to ensure diversity etc, that are currently within the "black box" but would be made public.</DIV>
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<DIV>(c) A new nominating committee, selected from a pool of civil society volunteers, could put forward candidates based on the selection criteria - similar to what we do internally in the IGC, and also used by other IG institutions such as the IETF.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>(d) Another civil society umbrella group could nominate them. This could be the WSIS Civil Society Plenary (which no longer really exists, but it may be necessary to re-form it before 2015), or an entirely new peak body.</DIV>
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<DIV>Which of these options do you prefer? Can you think of others?</DIV>
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