[governance] Volunteers for nomcom

[Lee McKnight]

Hi Avri,

I throw my name in the nomcom hat oh so enthusiatically...how close are we now?

Lee

Prof. Lee W. McKnight
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
+1-315-443-6891office
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>>> Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> 3/28/2006 4:40 PM >>>

Hi,

As mentionned in a previous mail, we are in the process of setting up  
a nomination committee (nomcom) to help select candidates for the IGF  
Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG).

This nomcom will be picked through a random procedure among willing  
volunteers who are  members of this caucus. The procedure works best  
if there is a large number of volunteers and they are a diverse group  
in terms of criteria such as  origins, competences, age and gender.    
We have set the required minimum number of volunteers at 25, though  
the more the better - personally I would like to see 50, but I am an  
optimist.  At 25, each volunteer has a 1 in 5 chance of being  
selcted.  At 50 each volunteer has a 1 in 10 chance of being selected.

Currently with 1 day  to go before the deadline for volunteers (the  
deadline is 30 March AnyTZ), we only have 18 out of the required  
minimum 25.   If we do not have 25 volunteers by the end of the day  
on the 30th, this process will be terminated and another method of  
choosing a list will need to be discovered.

I therefore want to reiterate to this list the call for people to  
volunteer in the next day, particularly for people originating from  
developing countries and regions like Asia, Latin America, Africa and  
the Middle-east, and including people who rarely post but have  
followed regularly the activities of the caucus. This would make the  
procedure as open and legitimate as possible.

The work of the NomCom will be conducted online and will take place  
during the first weeks of April, in order to deliver a list of  
recommendations for the UN Secretary General before April 18th.

One important note : it has been agreed that those volunteers who are  
selected as members of the nomcom will not be eligible for  
participation in the IGF-MAG, but people who ultimately wish to be  
considered for the MAG are invited to volunteer for the nomcom  
nonetheless, and leave to fate or chance to decide where they will be  
more useful on the nomcom or as candidates for the MAG.  Again, it  
should be noted that volunteers who are not selected for the nomcom  
remain eligible for selection for the IGC candidates list.   And it  
should be remembered that selection by the nomcom for the IGC  
candidate list is not a guarantee of ultimate appointment to the MAG.

I keep the updated list of volunteers at:  http://www.nomadicity.net/ 
volunteers.html

Oh yes, one final thing: please volunteer.

a.




  
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