[bestbits] Proposal on Best Bits governance

[Shahzad Ahmad]

+1

Šas for all practical purposes the decisions have to be with consensus among
the group.

Keep up the great work everyone,

Best wishes and regards
Shahzad 



From:  "genekimmelman at gmail.com" <genekimmelman at gmail.com>
Reply-To:  "genekimmelman at gmail.com" <genekimmelman at gmail.com>
Date:  Monday, December 2, 2013 at 5:13 PM
To:  <jeremy at ciroap.org>, <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>
Subject:  Re: [bestbits] Proposal on Best Bits governance

+1


-------- Original message --------
From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
Date: 12/01/2013  10:43 PM  (GMT-05:00)
To: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
Subject: Re: [bestbits] Proposal on Best Bits governance
 

 
I for one can fully accept and endorse Anriette's helpful proposal.  Others?
 
 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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