[governance] Call for Nominations for IGC Co-coordinator

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

I would like to respond to Parminder's point that we should reconsider
the criterion on coordinators being to facilitate their own funding in
IGF meetings.

While it is important for coordinators, or at least one of them, to be
at the meetings, I agree strongly with Parminder that we should not
include ability to fund one's participation in the criteria.

It is bound to limit the pool of people we can draw on and would
therefore limit diversity.  And, we can find ways around it as Parminder
points out.

Anriette

> 
> My personal thoughts on the criterion of “> is able to fund their
> >participation in IGF meetings” are as follows.
> 
>  
> 
> I think we should try to find a way around this, because such a
> consideration especially dissuades possible candidates from developing
> countries, while having an impact on effective functioning of a
> co-coordinator from any part of the world. We know that even some MAG
> members from developing countries have not been able to participate in
> MAG meetings in the past (which is such a mockery of a public
> institution) though the situation seems to be improving now. 





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