[governance] Co-coordinator Election Results

[Craig Simon]

Hello all,

Congratulations to Jeremy, who has demonstrated a long-standing 
commitment to serving the Internet community, and who has pursued that 
commitment with admirable dedication.

As we proceed with efforts to engage wider and more effective 
participation in this forum, we should note that Jeremy's plurality was 
less than 35% of the votes cast, and the next 2 candidates had over 53% 
between them. Jeremy's election was certainly legitimate under current 
rules and processes, but I hope that folks here will seriously consider 
moving toward more advanced consensus-oriented systems that can remake 
the IGC into an exemplar of scalability and fairness in online discourse 
and decision-making.

Craig Simon

Ginger Paque 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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