[governance] IGC nomcom process and results

[Meryem Marzouki]

Hi all,

I don't see any need, nor any sound reason, to criticize the nomcom -  
i.e. its members - in this process.

It has been set up in a hurry, with countless messages from Parminder  
desperately asking for volunteers. It was even difficult to find a  
non voting nomcom chair. And my opinion is that the nomcom did a  
great job, especially under such conditions, to come up with a call  
for nominees perfectly synthetizing the requirements, following the  
long and - as usual - heated discussion we had on this list prior to  
nomcom work.

True the nomcom might have made clear that (self-)nominations should  
also be sent to the IGC. But, after all, no one from this list  
reacted on the call for nominees, saying that nominations should be  
sent to the list. In such conditions, I understand that, most  
probably, the nomcom felt reluctant on forwarding nominations (with  
names and private details), when nomineeds were not informed on such  
possibility in advance.

Since we don't have yet the nomcom report, I also hardly understand  
critics on why people from one region or the other have not been  
selected, or in less number than others, when we don't know the  
details on the received nominations (only general statistics have  
been published).

As regards nominees, we certainly can't expect from people external  
to IGC to send their (self-)nominations to this list, when they  
haven't been asked so. However, we could have expected to be informed  
on (self-)nominations from people active in the IGC, most notably  
from incumbents, most notably from those incumbents who announced  
their willingness to be selected again. Apparently, they don't have  
anything to report to us on their activity in the MAG till now. I  
regret this.

Furthermore, the nomcom has selected 15 nominees. It has been said  
that this would give more choice to the selection by UN/Secretariat.  
I'm wondering:

(1) if it's wise to give choice to UN/Secretariat - why then  
undertaking this selection process?
(2) how many candidates from IGC nominated group we expect to be  
selected?
(3) how many CS people we expect to be selected, all in all.

You might have understood at this point that our criticisms should  
target now is not the nomcom, but:
- our own choice of selecting our candidates through a nomcom process  
rather than a voting process
- our own choice - be it by default - to let the UN/Secretariat pick  
up who it wants to pick up, rather than having a clear idea in  
advance on how many candidates we should select, then  select them,  
and send this list to UN/Secretariat with clear demand that they  
should be on the MAG.

We should be now busy with workshop proposals, statement for May  
consultations, and other related issues. But right after this, we  
should start considering at least changing our charter w.r.t. to  
selection process, and vote on this changes according to our current  
charter provisions.

Best,
Meryem
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