[governance] [2 of 6] How best to nominate non governmental

[Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google]

A slight variant of (d).

I prefer the idea of a Civil Society "umbrella" group which is
all-inclusive and well known and recoginised.

The IGC can scale to become that group or at the very least, ensure
that it is a foundation member of same.

On 6/8/10, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
> Continuing the questions from the MAG questionnaire
> (http://intgovforum.org/cms/the-preparatory-process/510), comes the second
> question:
>
> How best to nominate non governmental members for the MAG?
>
> Some options are:
>
> (a) The existing "black box" approach whereby the United Nations Secretary
> General selects from a range of nominees put forward by various parties -
> selection criteria are not publicly available.
>
> (b) The IGC (that is, we) could choose, based on certain selection criteria
> to ensure diversity etc, that are currently within the "black box" but would
> be made public.
>
> (c) A new nominating committee, selected from a pool of civil society
> volunteers, could put forward candidates based on the selection criteria -
> similar to what we do internally in the IGC, and also used by other IG
> institutions such as the IETF.
>
> (d) Another civil society umbrella group could nominate them.  This could be
> the WSIS Civil Society Plenary (which no longer really exists, but it may be
> necessary to re-form it before 2015), or an entirely new peak body.
>
> Which of these options do you prefer?  Can you think of others?
>
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