[governance] yet another election forthcoming

[Tijani BEN JEMAA]

Ian and all,

I think we can use the criteria of last year and call for nomination 
immediately; we will manage to be on time with no major violation of our 
charter.

Happy new year
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Tijani BEN JEMAA
Member of the Tunisian Engineers' Order
Vice Chairman of CIC
World Federation of Engineering Organizations
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Peter" <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>; "'Ian Peter'" <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>; 
"'Jeanette Hofmann'" <jeanette at wzb.eu>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 10:52 AM
Subject: RE: [governance] yet another election forthcoming


> I've just noticed from the IGC website that the final date for nominations
> for MAG renewal has just been set as February 15. I do not believe it is
> possible for us to carry out the procedure outlined in our charter in that
> time frame, ie
>
> 1. get 25 names for nomcom pool - from past experience and with a holiday
> season that would take us till at least January 12
> 2. select nomcom - till January 19
> 3. set criteria - till January 26 (very minimal)
> 4. call for nominations - close February 10
> 5. choose candidates - requires at least 2 weeks to do effectively. So we
> are out of time.
>
> And that is assuming we start today, no delays.
>
> However I believe we should come up with a quicker process and put in some
> nominations rather than miss out altogether. So I am interested in
> suggestions as to how we might proceed in a fair and reasonable manner 
> with
> a shortened process.
>
> Please make suggestions. Within 48 hours there will be a new Co-cordinator
> announced, I would like to discuss with them our best path forward given 
> the
> time and holiday season constraints, and your suggestions will be very
> welcome.
>
>
> Ian Peter
> PO Box 429
> Bangalow NSW 2479
> Australia
> Tel (+614) 1966 7772 or (+612) 6687 0773
> www.ianpeter.com
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ian Peter [mailto:ian.peter at ianpeter.com]
>> Sent: 21 December 2008 06:16
>> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; 'Jeanette Hofmann'
>> Subject: RE: [governance] yet another election forthcoming
>>
>> Thanks for posting that Jeanette. With our processes, we need quite a bit
>> of
>> lead time to go through this.
>>
>> Firstly we need an independent chair. Then a nomcom pool of 25 candidates
>> from whom our nomcom will be randomly selected, then a call for 
>> candidates
>> and selection of nominated names. So we should make sure we move on this
>> early in January.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ian Peter
>> PO Box 429
>> Bangalow NSW 2479
>> Australia
>> Tel (+614) 1966 7772 or (+612) 6687 0773
>> www.ianpeter.com
>>
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Jeanette Hofmann [mailto:jeanette at wzb.eu]
>> > Sent: 21 December 2008 02:06
>> > To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
>> > Subject: [governance] yet another election forthcoming
>> >
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > we have hardly completed the election of the new coordinator and before
>> > we know it there is another election waiting.
>> > The IGF secretariat got the go-ahead from UN headquarters to start with
>> > the MAG renewal process. The secretariat hopes to announce the new
>> > members in time for the meeting in May 2009 in Geneva.
>> >
>> > This is fairly early compared to last years. I just went through our
>> > mail archive. This year we started protesting about the lack of
>> > information about the new members in August!
>> >
>> > We havn't got a deadline yet for nominations but it can't hurt to start
>> > thinking about candidates.
>> >
>> > These are the CS members from this year (copied from Parminder's August
>> > 22 mail):
>> >
>> > Valeria Betancourt
>> > Graciela Selaimen
>> > Y. J. Park
>> > Natasha Primo
>> >
>> > And a few of IGC members whose membership has been renewed.
>> >
>> > Robin Gross
>> > Jeanette Hofmann
>> > Ken Lohento
>> > Qusai Al Shatti
>> >
>> > About a third of the members should rotate each year. All of the 
>> > renewed
>> > members have now completed their 3. And to make it a bit more
>> > complicated, we are just one of the groups who nominate CS members.
>> >
>> > All the best, jeanette
>> >
>> >
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