[governance] CSTD Representatives - report from NomCom

[Ian Peter]

On behalf of the Nomcom, I can now announce that the following were chosen
as  IGC civil society nominations to CSTD, and we would ask that the co ­
ordinators deal with forwarding the names to CSTD in due course. Our report
follows the names (which are in no particular order).
 
Anriette Esterhuysen
Parminder Singh 
Michael Gurstein 
Wolfgang Kleinwachter
Izumi Aizu 
Katitza Rodriguez  
Marilia Maciel
William J Drake 
Divina Frau-Meigs 
Milton Mueller 
 
Should any of the chosen reps be unavailable, the NomCom can advise its
preferences for alternative candidates. Indeed a number of other candidates
figured strongly in our thinking and it is a pity we were not able to
include them all.

REPORT
 
The Nomcom was briefed  on October 20, and asked to complete this task by
October 31 ­ a very tight timeframe. The members selected were Qusai
Al-Shatti, Gurumurthy K, Hempal Shrestha, Jacquiline Morris  and Ian Peter.
Ian Peter was  elected Chair for the purpose of this exercise.

Our first step was to call for nominations to be clarified or added to
(original nominations were made in conjunction with the co coordinator
ballot on October 10).

A final list of candidates was published on governance list on October 24 as
follows

Jeremy Malcolm, Tim McGinnis , Anupam Agrawal , Rafik Dammak , Mohamed
Zahran , Cheryl Langdon-Orr , Jamil Goheer , Wolfgang Kleinwächter, Imran
Ahmed Shah , AHM Bazlur Rahman , William J. Drake, Izumi Aizu , Michael
Gurstein , Divina Frau-Meigs , Baudouin Schombe , Fearghas McKay, Hakikur
Rahman, Solomon Gizaw , Fouad Bajwa , Kwasi Adu-Boahen Opare, Pascal Bekono
, Milton L. Mueller, Vittorio Bertola , Shahzad Ahmad, Katitza Rodriguez,
Julian Casasbuenas G, Hong Xue, Hanane Boujemi, Jeremy Hunsinger , Vivek
Misra, Marília Maciel , Sivasubramanian M , Carlos Watson, Parminder Jeet
Singh, Anriette Esterhuysen.
 
Late nominations were also received from Anja Kovacs, Roland Perry, and
Mohamed Zahran. The applications submitted after the closing dates were also
examined by the NonCom. However, none of them could make it to the final
list. 
 
In addition to selecting the 10 candidates to represent the civil society
Internet Governance Caucus, the IGC Nomcom was asked to consider an informal
request to include representatives of the "technical community".
We have not done so specifically, because the request was informal and we do
not believe it is appropriate in the spirit of multi stakeholderism for our
group to try to represent the wishes of a separate stakeholder group. And
while we would point out that among the names we are forwarding are people
with long standing involvement in and knowledge of Internet technical and
governance bodies, it is not up to us to formally attempt representation for
these bodies in reponse to an informal request from some other party to do
so. We believe a direct approach by CSTD to bodies such as the NRO and ISOC
from CSTD would be more appropriate.

Some private correspondence was undertaken with representatives of ISOC and
RIRs before arriving at this position, and we believe it is the appropriate
response for all parties concerned in the circumstances. No names were
submitted by these bodies for Nomcom consideration.

The  group defined its selection criteria for IGC representation as
 
1. Regular contributor to IGC
2. Consultative style with IGC members
3. Knowledge of/ previous experience with CSTD
4. Knowledge of the UN system
5. Able to represent the diverse range of views and perspectives held by
civil society 
 
The group also decided that it would consider both geographic and gender
diversity in determining its final slate from among the most supported
candidates.
 
Nomcom members then scored candidates individually and each nomcom member
who participated came up with a list of 10 names. These were collated , with
the majority of candidates on our final list being initially selected by all
participating nomcom members. The Nomcom then discussed finalisation of the
slate and the merits of respective candidates, bearing in mind geographic
and gender balance as much as possible to come up with a final list.
This was a very tight timeframe. Nomcom members worked very well together
and with a great deal of agreement on how to proceed to bring this to a
successful conclusion in a tight timeframe.
 
Finally, we must add that the slate of candidates available for selection
was extraordinarily good, and representative of the diverse talents within
the Internet Governance Caucus. While on this occasion, for the purposes of
CSTD representation, the Nomcom clearly wanted to ensure that some of IGC¹s
more experienced members were involved, we would like to stress that for
future tasks, such as MAG rotation, different criteria would apply and we
would like to see more people having the opportunity to represent IGC. So we
would encourage unsuccessful nominees on this occasion to put their names
forward again in the future and thank them for their offer to contribute on
this occasion.



Ian Peter
On behalf of Nomcom

PS - and as a personal note - we were only able to deliver a slate of
candidates in this short period of time because of the calibre of the
participating Nomcom members. Although the timeframe did not allow the
participation of Qasai, I must say that Jacquiline, Guru and Hempal all
displayed high level abilities to hear each other perspectives and
compromise in order to get a result. It is not easy to undertake such an
exercise in such a short time frame but the participating Nomcom members
took to the task and did a wonderful job for IGC.


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