[governance] co-coordinator election results

[jlfullsack]

Dear Parminder

Once gain, many thanks for your very clear informations which provide us the best insight of what is going on and, moreover, what is important in all this info-flow.

My best thanks also for your job and your commitment, for the sake of the CS involved in the different domains of the WSIS follow-up process.

My congratulations to Ian and my best wishes for a successfull job during his mandate.  I do hope he'll do his best to keep the CS informed in due course about the main events and of progress in the Internet governance field, in respect to the principles of both the CS declarations of Geneva and Tunis.

Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT-France 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Parminder 
  To: governance at lists.cpsr.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:32 AM
  Subject: RE: [governance] co-coordinator election results


   

  On the issue of the period of co-coordinatorship, Ian's and mine:

   

  The last elections were held in November 2006 immediately after IGF's first meeting in Athens. As per the charter the annual elections are to be held in June of each month, or as close as possible to it. Each co-coordinator is elected for 2 years. However, it was found desirable that both co-coordinators do not change at the same time and that one of them is replaced each year. To put this processes into motion the first set of two co-coordinators were elected for different terms - one for a year, and the other for two years. Vittorio was elected for a year and I for two years.

   

  2007 elections were due in June, 2007, but that would have given Vittorio only a few months. I proposed that Vittorio continues till IGF, Rio, in November, 2007. I also proposed that the IGC co-coordinator election cycle coincide with the annual IGFs as the IGF is a primary institution of engagement by the IGC. 

   

  Accordingly, the elections should have been held soon after Rio. These got postponed for a variety of reasons which I would not go into now. 

   

  Ian's term, if the present one to be considered the 2007 elections, would be till June 2009. But I suggest that it be till December, 2009, i.e. the close of IGF-4 in Cairo. And along with the 2009 election we get into a cycle of co-coordinator elections immediately after the annual IGF meet.

   

  As for my term, it ends immediately as Ian decides to hold elections and the new co-coordinator takes up. These elections are due and can be conducted at the earliest possible time. I personally am now keen to step down.

   

  On another, but connected note, I suggest that we explore the possibility of developing a funding proposal for an intern or someone to support the IGC co-coordinators, plus a couple of travel grants for the co-coordinators to attend important meetings. This will immensely enhance the capacity of the co-coordinators, and the effectiveness of the caucus. This may not easy but is worth giving a try with some likely funders. 

   

  The IGF has recognized the IGC's strong position in the IG civil society area with a green light to three workshops sponsored by us plus one that we co-sponsored. This is a monumental step forward. However, to meet the consequent expectations and responsibilities well we need to pull ourselves together as a more coherent working unit. Ian is an energetic person driven by keen purposefulness. I am sure he will provide us strong leadership in this regard. But we need to start hearing from the members more, and more often, on these organizational issues.

   

  Thanks

   

  Parminder 

   

   

   

   



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