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

[Jeanette Hofmann]

Hi, b does not offer a workable solution because the caucus is not the 
global representative of civil society in the field of Internet 
governance. After years and years of this debate it would be really good 
if we could come to terms with the fact that people choose different 
avenues for applying for a seat on the MAG. If we want to suggest new 
ways of selecting members, we need to take into consideration that the 
IGC is not and will not be the center of the civil society world.

jeanette

Eric Dierker wrote:
> Jeremy,
>  
> I like b.  We have seen throughout the last century several classic 
> attempts to incorporate a "member of the party" electoral process. So 
> often countries claimed elections were open and honest and in fact had 
> huge turnouts. But you could only vote for a "party candidate". Too 
> often US and UK elections reach the same result and there is a constant 
> revolt against the notion.
>  
> Of course I hope this is consistent with my view that the (that is we*) 
> play a more influencial role.  That open, well supervised, public forum 
> lists be the genesis for more input. That consensus play a role but that 
> minority views be given weight so that the majority conclusions can be 
> more pure and less watered down.
>  
> So I think we should keep nominations open open open for those with a 
> proven desire for public service (like Ginger and Jeremy).
>  
>  
> * I appreciate very much using this concept as descriptive of the IGC. 
> It is what is mostly desired to be achieved and I think */we/* do a good 
> job of it.
> 
> --- On *Tue, 6/8/10, Jeremy Malcolm /<jeremy at ciroap.org>/* wrote:
> 
> 
>     From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>
>     Subject: [governance] [2 of 6] How best to nominate non governmental
>     members for the MAG?
>     To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
>     Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 4:26 AM
> 
>     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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