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

[Nnenna Nwakanma]

Dear all,

+1 On Ian.  I dont think we should de facto ask that all CS  reps be
renewed.  Because even other MAG members have  said that not all of us have
fulfilled their tasks.

Which brings us back to a fundamental question: respecting the criteria
that we have communicated as being those that we wil use to decide who
represents us.

Really, we should insist on merit, on engagement and on expertise.

Very best

Nnenna


On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

>   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 <jeremy at ciroap.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:45 PM
> *To:* mailto:bestbits at lists.bestbits.net <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:
>
>
>    - 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.
>    - 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.
>    - 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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