[bestbits] Best Bits MAG nominations for your approval - URGENT

[Ian Peter]

late at night here but as a quick response. I think you should think very carefully about supporting the continuation of all current civil society members of MAG

Several are completely unknown to either Best Bits or IGC, some are quite inactive, some represent small interest groups only. I think it is a mistake to support all existing CS MAG people.

Ian

From: Jeremy Malcolm 
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:45 PM
To: mailto:bestbits at lists.bestbits.net 
Subject: Re: [bestbits] Best Bits MAG nominations for your approval - URGENT

To summarise the current status of discussions as I perceive them:

  a.. Rather than picking and choosing between the existing civil society representatives, we should simply support the continuation of all civil society representatives who have served less than a three-year term. 
  b.. But if one or more spots are vacant, some affirmative support has been received for the self-nominations of Matthew Shears, Nnenna Nwakanma, Bertrand de la Chapelle to fill them. 
  c.. Self-nominations from Ana Perdigao and Imran Ahmed Shah are yet to receive affirmative support.

So, as our contribution, we could add a paragraph simply saying the above to the joint civil society MAG nomination letter (see below).

On 20 Nov 2013, at 10:42 pm, William Drake <william.drake at UZH.CH> wrote:


  But my questions remain.   Since others knew to respond I assume a CFP with this info was issued, but I missed it and can’t find it in the BB archives (apologies if it turns out this is simply because I’m in a crowded noisy hallway and can’t focus).   So again, could you tell when was the call for nominations, what was the deadline for submission, and what is the process from here?

The general nomination procedure was raised at the Bali meeting and was in development on the wiki for a while before that, but the proposal to test it out for the MAG was in the thread at http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/arc/bestbits/2013-11/msg00130.html.  Since then we've clarified that the steering committee isn't selecting anyone, just facilitating the process.


  Looking through other messages from today, I agree with Mawaki that when BB (and IGC, and anyone else) sends the secretariat nominations, this should be accompanied by a clear explanation of who’s making the nominations on what basis and the nomination procedure that’s been followed so they have context for what they’re looking at.

So this may mean that a joint/combined nomination with the IGC is off the table, but we can still do a joint civil society letter explaining the different processes and nominees.  That's seems fine to me - we realised that a combined nomination was ambitious, and the IGC's process is pretty self-contained.

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