[governance] Co-coordinator Election Results

[Fouad Bajwa]

Congratulations to Jeremy and hats off to the outgoing co-coordinator Ian!

This was indeed a wonderful first experience going through the
election process. The election of Jeremy is indeed a wonderful and
timely selection. Once again my complete support to you and Ginger and
I know you both will make a wonderful IGC coordination team together.
It is also wonderful to see our confirmed 138 members and this shows
that we are growing quickly!

Now as Jeremy takes on this role and with Ginger's wonderful
contributions during her first year, we have an immediate need to
strengthen our stakeholder group and its participation in the IGF with
an increased presence of developing regions. I feel we also have an
increased interest together to establish IGF as an organization on the
ground and increased presence on the Internet and we have all had
wonderful discussions on this and this is the perfect duo to take
these issues and opportunities forward.

We have a Open Consultation and MAG Meetings coming up during the
second week of February 2010 and we need to prepare our statements for
both as well as the planning of the IGF2010 in Lithuania.

I know that either Ginger or Jeremy will be there for the Open
Consultations but there is an increased need for strengthening our
statements and deliberations in the MAG meetings since this is where
the program planning of the IGF is done within a multistakeholder
face-to-face engagements for two days.

Though the Civil Society members of IGF are present throughout these
MAG meetings, there is an increased need to take forward a combined
agenda or at least have IGC in direct interaction during the MAG
meetings with its nominated and elected MAG Members like myself so
that IGC interventions from the Open Consultations can be strengthened
in the MAG meetings.

I hope that you Ginger and Jeremy also take on these important
coordination respectively as agenda items for IGC and IGF2010!

Once again congratulations to both Jeremy and the members of the IGC
for a wonderful and successful election and election participation!

A very Happy New Year and Merry Christmas to all of our members and
their families and colleagues!!!

-- 
Regards.
--------------------------
Fouad Bajwa
Advisor & Researcher
ICT4D & Internet Governance
Member Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF)
Member Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC)
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On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> As our voting coordinator, Derrick Cogburn, is traveling, I am happy to
> announce the results of the IGC co-coordinator election for the
> co-coordinator to replace outgoing co-coordinator Ian Peter.
>
> The results are as follows, and shown in Derrick's attached graph. For the
> record and future reference, we are investigating further a small number of
> cases where the same IP address was used more than once in voting. However,
> there could be legitimate reasons for that (i.e. the same computer used by
> several colleagues). In any case, if there are irregularities these would
> only affect the final vote numbers for individual candidates, but not the
> final result of the election.
>
> Voters who accepted the IGC charter, and participated in the process: 138
> members.
> Total Votes Cast for Co-coordinator: 131
>
> Jeremy Malcolm     45
> Tim McGinnis         36
> Fouad Bajwa          34
> Rafik Dammak        11
> None of the Above    5
>
> Total Votes Cast    131
>
> Congratulations and great appreciation to all four candidates. I appreciate
> your willingness to run and to serve.
>
> I look forward to working with Jeremy--I'm sure we will have a productive
> year!
>
> Special thanks to Derrick for once again undertaking this complex task at a
> very busy time of year.
>
> Best wishes for the Winter/Summer holidays,
> Ginger Paque
> IGC Co-coordinator
>
> in collaboration with outgoing co-coordinator Ian Peter:
>
> and
>
> Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn
> Associate Professor of International Relations
> International Communication Program
> School of International Service
> American University
> 212 McCabe
> Washington, DC 20016-8071
> +1.202.885.2400
> http://www.american.edu/sis/ic
>
> Director, Center for Research on Collaboratories and
> Technology Enhanced Learning Communities (Cotelco)
> http://cotelco.net/
>
>
>
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