[governance] yet another election forthcoming

Sun Dec 21 09:23:12 EST 2008

Hello Ian Peter,

There is nothing wrong in opting for a quicker process, or in writing to
Markus Kummer for more time, but I think we may be able to find a solution
within the IGC.

>From your breakup of the process time it appears that the task of setting
criteria is lined up as a task dependent on the task of selection of the
nomcom. Considering the time constraint, if we can proceed simultaneously on
tasks 1 and 3 and simultaneously  open a discussion thread in the list to
arrive at a criteria for the candidates, the list can send its recommended
criteria to the new nom-com on 19th, the nom-com could adopt / modfiy the
criteria by the 21st.  Task 4, call for nomination also need not be
considered as a task dependant on selection of nom-com.  The existing
nom-com may call for candidates as early as tomorrow to colse it by Feb 19,
allowing the new nom-com to go over the list of nominees and announce an
appoved list of candidates by the 21st. If we allow 10 days for voting, we
will have the list of candidates by Februay 1.

I don't know about the inticacies, you as the Co-ordinator would know
better.

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

> 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,
> 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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