[bestbits] Steering committee nomination process: NOMINATE NOW

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 4/8/17 9:25 pm, parminder wrote:
> One, is there any qualification that the nominated person should be
> from a civil society organisation, or if acting as an individual
> having to declare that s/he acts as a civil society actor and
> represents no non- civil society organisation? I mean, what if a
> person who comes from a private company with active Internet policy
> interests, a business interests advocacy group, or is otherwise
> substantially working with business sector on Internet policy areas,
> gets nominated?

Good question!  Per item 4 of the Best Bits procedures document,
"Candidacy is open to civil society participants only."

> Two, on a separate note; going into bestbits history, and it having
> been formed to gather serious civil society groups, or different
> kinds, to possibly be able to act together, and that, as you observed
> in your paper, Just Net Coalition guys broke away from the effort on
> account on issues of whether steering committee members should
> disclose their "basic" organisational (or otherwise) funding
> information, to the level that is normally understood to considered as
> a civil society accountability standard, such a condition be put in
> the nomination process.
>

There is no specific qualification about financial accountability but
people can address this in their statements.  For those who rate this as
important, they will take its presence or absence into account in their
voting.

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Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Global Policy Analyst
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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