[governance] yet another election forthcoming

Kabani asif at kabani.co.uk
Wed Dec 24 02:10:43 EST 2008 

Hakik,

Thank for suppoting my input,


With Best Regards


Sincerely


Asif Kabani

2008/12/23 Hakikur Rahman <email at hakik.org>:
> Given the experience of last year, it would be a good decision not to rush
> with MAG renewal. We may request for an extension of the final date. That
> would provide some time to discuss among the community participants, and
> especially the NomCom, which is extremely necessary.
>
> Best regards,
> Hakik
>
>
> At 09:52 AM 12/21/2008, Ian Peter 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, 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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