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Moving Adam Peake's question from another thread:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I have a concern. But first could you please explain who was involved in the selection process, who from which organizations, what criteria considered, who were the candidates considered.
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Also cc'ing the governance list, because this is not a Best
Bits-specific issue (the new joint civil society committee is <b>not</b>
a Best Bits committee, I've merely been put forward as the liaison
from Best Bits to sit on it).<br>
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So who was involved in the selection process? Everyone who has been
involved in discussions in the networks that are on the steering
committee. The liaisons from each network have been passing those
discussions on. Who are those liaisons? One from each of the civil
society networks that is currently on the joint committee, viz. Sala
(and formerly Norbert) from IGC, Robin Gross from NCSG, myself from
Best Bits, Ginger Paque from Diplo, Anriette from APC and Ian Peter
as an independent chair.<br>
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Those members are not set in stone, they just volunteered to fill an
urgent need for a way of nominating civil society representatives to
various processes jointly. We are going to be suggesting, and
opening for discussion, some criteria for other groups to join.
Other groups who already expressed interest are Michael Gurstein on
behalf of his community informatics network, and the Internet Rights
and Principles coalition. But meanwhile, we have put aside further
process-tweaking in order to deal with the urgent task at hand.<br>
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As for what criteria and what candidates were considered, there is a
thread on this with discussion back and forth, and it would take
some time to go back and summarize it. But amongst the candidates
considered were:<br>
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<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">William Drake</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Valeria Betancourt</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Anriette Esterhuysen</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Vladimir Radunovik</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Michael Gurstein</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Thomas Lowenhaupt</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Grace Githaiga</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Nnenna Nwakanma</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Avri Doria</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Jeanette Hoffman</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Milton Mueller</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Stephanie Perrin</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Tara Taubman</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Judy Okite</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Anju Magnal</font></li>
<li><font style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Jovan Kurbalija<br>
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The main criterion was how much support existed within the
individual networks that had put forward the names in question.
Also considered important was that there should be at least one
person who can represent internal ICANN issues, and one person to
represent wider issues. The candidates should also have been
involved with the communities that were nominating them.<br>
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That's about all that I have to say for now. Ian, as the
independent chair, may wish to address any further questions that
you might have.<br>
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