[bestbits] Call for expressions of interest: 1net steering committee

[Anja Kovacs]

On 5 December 2013 17:32, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

>
> On Thursday 05 December 2013 04:35 PM, Anja Kovacs wrote:
>
>  I agree that Rafik would be a good choice.
>
> What I'm not so clear about is why the four Brazilian liaisons should also
> continue to be de facto representatives in the 1net Steering Committee,
>
> Anja
>
> I might have missed it, but I dont remember seeing any proposal to have
> our 4 Brazilian liaisons to Brazil meeting organising structure also be CS
> reps on the Steering Committee.
>

That seemed to be what Jeremy proposed in his initial email, hence my
response, but I also don't recall there being a broader discussion or
agreement on this.

Best,
Anja


>  parminder
>
>
>   if such a thing is indeed going to be put into place immediately (I
> quite liked Andrew Sullivan's suggestions on the 1net email list to simply
> let people take up responsibility for things they are interested in for
> now).
>
> As Jeremy argued, when there are really good candidates, I'm ok with
> people being representatives on both the Brazil committees and on 1net, and
> I can imagine that it would be good to have one or two Brazilians on both,
> to make the link. But now that 1net has been delinked in many ways from
> Brazil, surely it would be good to have a broader representation there?
> Even if I am sure they'd all do a great job, somehow having four out of
> five 1net reps being Brazilian just doesn't seem like the right balance to
> me....
>
>  What do others think?
>
>  Best,
> Anja
>
>
>
>
> On 5 December 2013 15:51, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
>
>>  Hi
>>
>>  Rafik is the elected chair of NCSG, which comprises a) NCUC, with 313
>> members from 78 countries, including 88 noncommercial organizations and 225
>> individuals; b) NPOC, with 52 nonprofit organizations in a couple dozen
>> countries; and c) some free floating individual members that are in neither
>> constituency.  NCSG dwarfs in size most other networks in this space,
>> operates in a transparent and accountable manner, and has ongoing working
>> relations with other stakeholder groups and ICANN, so one would think he’d
>> be an obvious choice.
>>
>>  Best,
>>
>>  Bill
>>
>>  On Dec 4, 2013, at 8:57 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
>>
>>  On 4 Dec 2013, at 11:37 pm, Carolina Rossini <carolina.rossini at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Robin Gross? Rafik?
>> I have a feeling that could be interesting to have the same people in
>> different committees to ensure that we have clear information (or make the
>> questions to try to gather better information based on a cross-fora
>> observation). I am just not sure they are part of BB. They are part of
>> other CS coalitions...
>>
>>
>>  That isn't necessarily a barrier.  But in the case of Robin Gross, she
>> is not eligible as she is on the joint committee.  Rafik seems like a good
>> choice, if he is willing (we'll ask).
>>
>>  Also, the whole question about these nominations are necessary has just
>> been reopened on the 1net list, so who knows whether things may change...
>> at least, we are hoping to get more time to come back with names (perhaps
>> until 16 December).
>>
>>
>>     **********************************************************
>> William J. Drake
>> International Fellow & Lecturer
>>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
>> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org
>> william.drake at uzh.ch (w), wjdrake at gmail.com (h),
>>   www.williamdrake.org
>> ***********************************************************
>>
>>
>>
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