[bestbits] Civil Society Representatives on IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) 2015

[Guru Acharya]

Just as a suggestion, is it possible to create objective criteria for
future selections, which is open to review.

For example, for every previous IGF attendance, the person gets a +1 mark;
for every panel the person has spoken on, he gets a +1 mark; for active
participation on the coalition mailing list he gets certain marks;
possibly, extra marks for being from a developing country.

These marks could then be totaled. There should be no privacy concerns in
making such objective evaluation public.

I understand the limitations of objective evaluation; but I feel
transparency is more important than the subjective criteria that raises
privacy concerns.

Voting could be another option for ensuring transparency but I figure
voting doesn't have legitimacy in a multi-stakeholder environment except
for the RIRs and the NRO.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:

> On 13/10/2014 10:57 am, Guru Acharya wrote:
> > The list comprises of brilliant and accomplished representatives. I
> > commend the CSCG Nomcom for its work.
> >
> > I'm curious to know whether the deliberations of the CSCG Nomcom are
> > transcribed or if the CSCG Nomcom mailing list is open for review so
> > that people who want to nominate themselves in the future are aware of
> > the baseline requirements.
>
> The requirements were sent around to all of the lists when we called for
> nominations (see thread "Call for nominations for civil society
> representatives for the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory group (MAG)" on 18
> September), but there are strong privacy reasons why we wouldn't open up
> the deliberations about the respective merits of individual candidates
> to public review.
>
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> Jeremy Malcolm
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> Electronic Frontier Foundation
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