[bestbits] Proposal on Best Bits governance

[Adam Peake]

Agree with the proposal.

Would be helpful for me, perhaps others, to know what the role of the
steering committee plays?  Bestbits seems to be taking on a lot more than I
understand it was originally established to do.  No problem with that.  But
given this new role what's the task of the steering committee?

Adam




On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

>  I for one can fully accept and endorse Anriette's helpful proposal.
> Others?
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> On 22/11/13 17:56, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
>
> Dear all
>
> [Please note that this proposal is not about the Brazil meeting or civil
> society nomcoms.]
>
> In some of the recent threads people have called to question the
> legitimacy of the Best Bits steering committee, and of transparency and
> accountability in Best Bits.  I agree it will be good to strengthen Best
> Bits internal processes, but we should do this in a way that does not
> undermine trust in people who have worked hard to bring Best Bits to
> where it is, or in one another.  We should also not undermine our
> ability to work together at a time when civil society is having to rise
> to some pretty daunting challenges.
>
> In particular, we should try not to discourage those individuals who
> have been volunteering their time on Best Bits bits work - either on the
> SC, or on drafting inputs. Without their effort we would be in a far
> weaker position than we are now. We would not have had the benefit of
> two face-to-face meetings, or of several substantial letters/other
> inputs submitted in response to strategic opportunities for raising
> civil society voices.
>
> I would therefore like to propose the following:
>
> 1) We ask the current Best Bits Steering Committee, a group of people
> who started to volunteer their time in this capacity in July 2013, to
> continue to serve until 31 July 2014.
>
> 2) We ask them to present us with a short overview report of the work
> they did in 2013 by the end of this year.
>
> 3) We ask them to, by the end of the first quarter of 2014, to propose a
> process for the renewal of the Best Bits Steering Committee.
>
> Best
>
> Anriette
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