[bestbits] Proposal on Best Bits governance

[Ian Peter]

+1.

a good proposal to get things back on track I think.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Anriette Esterhuysen 
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 8:56 PM 
To: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net 
Subject: [bestbits] Proposal on Best Bits governance 

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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