[bestbits] Re: Call to Best Bits participants for nominations to Brazil meeting committees

Ian Peter ian.peter at ianpeter.com
Sun Jan 5 01:14:33 EST 2014 

Parminder, I think you answered your own question when you stated

“However, I do agree that it is a very good practice to make all nominations, with supporting material, open to the various lists, which can be seen by all...”

which I think is what Jeremy was also suggesting as well. But to make things clear, there is no beauty contest process involved, and multiple lists are involved in calling for nominations, all of which may be a little different in the way they go about this.

Ian

From: parminder 
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 4:20 PM
To: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net 
Subject: Re: [bestbits] Re: Call to Best Bits participants for nominations to Brazil meeting committees


On Thursday 02 January 2014 02:43 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

  This is a reminder to put forward your names for selection for the Brazil meeting committees by midnight UTC 7 January 2014, per the procedure given below.

  Regarding the draft selection criteria originally posted, a few others were raised on this list, of which one had fairly wide support, that "the nominee brings in perspectives/ representation of groups typically under-represented in global IG processes, and demonstrate existing linkages and work in this regard" (but the comment was also made that this should not be applied to give undue weight to minority views).  The arguments for and against this additional criterion have been well ventilated and the coordinating group will take what it can from this discussion.

  Surprisingly though we haven't actually had too many actual names put forward as nominees for the two committees (I have received a couple privately, but it is much better that they are discussed on the list, so that support for the names can be gauged).  So please do take the opportunity over the next few days to put your name or someone else's forward, if you would like to give input into the composition of the groups.


I am not sure what part of the process includes "gauging support on open lists". I request clarification from Ian if this is a part of the process or not... We need to be very particular and fastidious about such processes. It was announced that names may be sent by 7th to be considered by the CS coordination committee... i read nothing about a beauty contest on open lists as being a part of the process. For the record, I am happy to have a process of open online voting being adopted for nominee selection, and even for such a voting to be an open voting. What I protest about is ad hoc ism of processes, as important as those involving nominations. If "gauging support on open list" is not a part of the process it should explicitly be given no weight -age. And if it is a part, it should be openly announced, and all potential candidates given equal opportunity... Although I find such a process quite odd, for many reasons, like, some kinds of people are less open to sending emails about specific supports than others, and - well, Jeremy, since you speak of a discussion on the list - people would hardly ' discuss' people openly... 

However, I do agree that it is a very good practice to make all nominations, with supporting material, open to the various lists, which can be seen by all...

parminder 



  Thanks.

  On 22/12/13 13:31, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

    This is a call for nominations to represent civil society on planning committees in preparations for the “Global Multistakeholder Meeting on Internet Governance”, to be held in Sao Paulo Brazil on April 23 and 24 2014.





    • Committee No. 1:  Multistakeholder High­Level Committee (HLC)



    This committee will set the high ­level political tone and objectives of the

    conference.  Committee members will engage on a global level with stakeholders to

    encourage participation in the conference and maximize its chances of success.



    This committee will include 4 civil society representatives.



    • Committee No. 3:  Multistakeholder Executive Committee (EC)



    This committee owns the full responsibility of organizing the event, including: defining

    conference purpose/agenda, managing invitations, organizing input received into a coherent set of proposals for the conferees to address, managing conference proceedings and process, and directing all communications activities pre/­during/­post conference. This committee will include 2 civil society representatives







    The deadline for submitting expressions of interest is midnight UTC 7 January 2014.



    If you are interested, you are invited to send a brief biography and a statement of relevant background and experience to jeremy at ciroap.org or by replying to this thread. At the closing date for nominations, those submitted to various civil society networks will be compiled and assessed by the Civil Society Co ordination Group.



    Please indicate clearly at the beginning of your application whether it is for the High Level Committee (HLC) or Executive Committee (EC) or both.





    CRITERIA



    The following factors (among others) will be used to assess the suitability of candidates



    1.      Able to represent civil society as a whole, not just your individual civil society organisation(s)

    2.      Able to work collegiately with other stakeholder groups in a multistakeholder setting

    3.      Able to consult widely with civil society groups and to report back as the process progresses

    4.      Ability to represent civil society at a senior level in these discussions

    5.      Broad knowledge of internet governance issues and the range of civil society perspectives on these issues

    6.      Capacity to participate assertively and creatively



    Explanation of process

    The civil society coordinating group is a loose peak body that came together this year to facilitate joint civil society participation in several nominating processes.  It currently comprises persons from the most active civil society coalitions or networks in the Internet governance space, which in no particular order are the Internet Governance Caucus, Diplo Foundation, Best Bits, the Non Commercial Stakeholder Group of ICANN, and the Association for Progressive Communications.  The current liaisons are Virginia Paque, Jeremy Malcolm, Robin Gross and Chat Garcia Ramilo, with Ian Peter as an independent facilitator.  Its current composition is imperfect - the boundary between an organisation and network is grey, and so is the scope of "Internet governance".  In particular, we are reaching out to other civil society networks to further broaden the inclusiveness of the group and have developed a draft set of criteria to assist in this process.

    Likewise, the process for gathering and reaching consensus is also a work in progress, but progressive improvements to the process have been put in place since the group's first nomination.  These improvements include refinement of criteria for each member network to consider when putting forward names for consideration.  Other suggested changes to the process, such as the use of a randomly-selected nominating committee, have not met with consensual support from within the group and so have not been adopted for this nomination.  However, the coordinating group welcomes other suggestions for improvement of the joint process.


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