[governance] Regarding Membership Criteria for Future Members

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Hello Ian,

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
> Hi Fouad,
>
> That's as regards membership. Of course Nomcoms and electors within our
> membership may choose to take into account such factors as those you raise
> in determining suitability for office. That's entirely appropriate and has
> happened in the past.

If the Caucus does not discriminate between individuals as members,
how would NomCom discriminate between candidates as candidates from a
business background / government background etc?  If there is no
discrimination on the membership level, there can't be any
discrimination at any level.

>
> I know others see it differently, but I personally don't have an issue with
> governmental or private sector employees being members per se. But it is
> something that might be worth clarifying and discussing in the future.

If my understanding is right, the IGC is a 'Civil Society' Caucus, and
it has remain as a Civil
Society body where members from other sectors are admitted as
exceptions but not indiscriminately. Keeping membership wide open for
Government and Business might make the IGC a multi-stakeholder body,
but that would imply that the IGC is no longer a 'Civil Society'
Caucus. Equal status to Government and Business might in future get
distorted as proportionately larger status and larger influence to
Government and Business. That is to say that the seats within IGC may
be largely occupied by Business and Government interests.  So what do
we want the IGC to be?  A civil Society body or a multi-stakeholder
body?

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy

>
> Ian
>
>
>
>
>> From: Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 04:50:34 +0500
>> To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
>> Subject: [governance] Regarding Membership Criteria for Future Members
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I wanted to ask our experienced peers for some advice regarding
>> membership of the IGC. I have been promoting IGC membership in the
>> world around including any meeting regional or international that I
>> attend. I have also encouraged a lot of people in the DiploFoundation
>> network to join the IGC that belong to Civil Society, research or
>> academia.
>>
>> However, I have one small question to ask, as IGC represents the Civil
>> Society in the Internet Governance Forum, can government
>> representatives and private sector be member of the IGC? Does personal
>> capacity mean that government and private sector people can join the
>> IGC and access the Civil Society led IG discourse as well as
>> participate in the consensus oriented proceedings as well as take
>> their objectives/goals/agendas to the IGF while representing their
>> governments and companies?
>>
>> I know I am confused a bit but again I have to be clear here. Thank
>> you in advance for your comments!
>>
>> --
>> Regards.
>> --------------------------
>> Fouad Bajwa
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