[governance] IGC coordinator election results

Mon Oct 11 14:29:14 EDT 2010

Parminder/Ginger,

Hmmmm okaaay if you two say so ;)

However, am sure, IGC will continue to get great leaders from within the
community J

Best wishes

Shahzad

From: Ginger Paque [mailto:gpaque at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:05 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; parminder
Subject: Re: [governance] IGC coordinator election results

Parminder: Shahzad, It is not such a 'very difficult position', though I
think there is a feeling been built that it is and that has prevented some
people from contesting for it. 

Shazad and all,
I would like to reinforce Parminder's point here. Two years ago, I was very
reluctant to run for co-coordinator. Parminder and Ian assured me that it
was a 'doable' task and were very supportive when I asked for more
information. I found that the overlapping/laddered 2-year term allows an
excellent 'breaking in' period, and that the IGC members are far more
flexible and supportive than we have the image of being.

I thought that as IGC co-coordinator I would be 'giving'... instead I found
that I learned and received far more than I gave, and that the position was
a valuable opportunity more than a difficult task. When I thanked everyone
on the list at the end of my term, I was not being politically correct. I
indeed found it to be an enriching and valuable experience. 

Shahzad, I think you were being appreciative of IGC co-coordinators in
general, but it is good clarify this point, and to encourage more people
who, as Parminder notes, may be discouraged from running because of this
perception.

Best wishes to all,
Ginger

On 10/11/2010 11:42 AM, parminder wrote: 

Congrats to Izumi. And thanks to Rafik and Marilia for volunteering to
participate in this democratic exercise.

Shahzad, It is not such a 'very difficult position', though I think there is
a feeling been built that it is and that has prevented some people from
contesting for it. 

If one is interested in the political route to social change (and I think
that is one of the, if not the, most important route to real structural
change) , this is about the easiest training one can get for it :)

Parminder 

On Monday 11 October 2010 09:20 PM, Shahzad Ahmad wrote: 

Congratulation Izumi,

Heartfelt thanks to other candidates, who agreed to be nominated for this
very difficult position. 

Best wishes and regards

Shahzad

From: Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org] 
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 9:20 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: [governance] IGC coordinator election results

I am pleased to announce the results of the 2010 IGF coordinator elections.
All candidates polled respectably, indicating that they were all
well-qualified nominees for the post.  However, we have a clear winner.
Congratulations and welcome to my new colleague, Izumi Aizu.

There were 107 attempts to vote, of which 103 were valid responses.  The
invalid responses were two respondents who commenced the survey but did not
answer compulsory questions (one "Are you a member of the IGC" and the
other, having answered that "Yes", not answering "Have you already voted"),
another respondent who abandoned the survey before voting for a coordinator
and tried again later successfully, and one who attempted to vote for
coordinator twice.

Of the 103 valid responses, 101 were from self-identified IGC members, 95 of
whom claimed not to have voted already.  Four of these remaining qualified
voters did not choose to vote for a coordinator.  Of the remaining 91 votes
cast, Izumi received 52.  Thanks also to Rafik who received 13 votes and
Marilia who received 26.

The public statistics for the poll, and a spreadsheet with the results of
the election are both available at http://www.igcaucus.org/node/38.  A photo
of the new coordinators is available at http://www.igcaucus.org/node/17.

I will write separately about the charter vote and the nominations
committee.

Here are some questions you may have about the results (though I can't
really call them "frequently asked"):

Q: Why do the public statistics show 100 (not 103) responses?

A: Because by design of the software, these statistics exclude "incomplete"
responses.  Of the four respondents who did not choose a coordinator, one
just skipped that question, whereas the others quit the survey in progress.
The former's response is included in the public statistics, and the others
are not.

Q. Why do the public statistics show 98 (not 101) voters asserting
membership of the IGC?

A. See the answer to the previous question.

Q: Why do the public statistics show 92 (not 95) persons claiming not to
have already voted?

A: See the answer to the previous question.

Q. Why do there appear to be some votes missing from the CSV file (based on
the consecutive numbering)?

A. The missing ones at the beginning where from testing by me and Ginger.
There are a small number of missing votes where I deleted them because the
person mistakenly claimed to have voted already (see below).

Q. Why do three people appear to have voted twice?

A. One of these people mistakenly answered that he had voted already.  I
told him to vote again using the token sent to his other email address.
Another gave up before getting to the coordinator vote, then started again;
her first response was treated as invalid.  The third does appear to be a
double vote; in this case, the first response has been treated as invalid
and the second, more complete response taken as definitive.  It is not
counted in the public statistics, but is retained in the spreadsheet of
results.

Q. Why did some people say that they had already voted, when they hadn't?

A. I don't know, maybe they didn't read the question carefully enough?
Anyone who contacted me to ask for the opportunity to re-cast their vote,
was able to do so.  A few, unfortunately, didn't contact me, and missed out
on the opportunity to vote...

Q. How did one person vote anonymously?

A. It was not really anonymous, they just didn't provide their name.  Their
email address is news [at] chania.di.uoa.gr.  Anyway, theirs was one of the
invalid responses that was not counted, as they did not answer a compulsory
question.

Q. What is the difference between "No", "None" and "N/A"?

A. "No" means you were asked a Yes/No question and chose the latter.
"None", for the coordinator vote, means you were qualified to vote and chose
to support none of the candidates.  "N/A" means either you were not
qualified to vote, or you didn't answer that question.

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