[governance] Advisory Group appointment

[Vittorio Bertola]

Jeremy Malcolm ha scritto:
> Adam, would it be possible for you to raise on the Advisory Group 
> mailing list (which I can't post to, because it's closed) the proposal 
> that from now on it be appointed by an open and multi-stakeholder 
> nominations committee (as delegates of the Secretary-General)?

I think that then you have a problem: who is going to select the members 
of the nominating committee that is going to select the Advisory Group? 
If it's the SG and you trust the SG to pick a balanced Nomcom, then why 
don't you trust him to pick a balanced AG?

If the point is that constituencies should self-select representatives, 
then we'd rather ask the SG to tell us how many he wants, and we'll 
provide the names. This might however shift the heat on ourselves, as I 
don't think that we ever agreed, for example, that the IGC is entitled 
to provide names on behalf of the entire civil society. I'd like this 
scenario, but are we ready for it?

If the point is that renewed (better) criteria for selection should be 
used, or that there were too many I*-societies people and too few civil 
society (and, by the way, this point was spontaneously made to me by a 
governmental person as well: it seems that we're not the only ones who 
are disturbed by that), then we'd rather put out a "formal" CS statement 
to say: we think that the next AG should have more civil society people 
and be more geographically and gender balanced. Actually, that's what we 
were trying to do just before the IGF - I think we now need to release a 
civil society assessment of the IGF.

Finally:

> I think for this issue to be fed to the Advisory Group

How could the existing (imbalanced) AG conclude that itself was ill 
selected and so it should be replaced by a different mix of people? I 
don't see that happening, honestly.

To conclude frankly: I imagine that the Secretariat was forced to pick 
all these Internet technical people as a precondition for some 
stakeholders not to opt out of the process. I think that now, after a 
first, successful meeting, strength ratios are different and the 
Secretariat might be able to do a better job, as it did with the WGIG. 
We should first of all lobby it to that extent.
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