[governance] CSTD Representatives - report from NomCom

[Izumi AIZU]

Dear Ian and NomCom,

Thank you very much for finalizing the final candidates for us,
with very fair and balanced consideration and report.

As co-coordinator, I really commend their work (not because
I am selected ;-), within such limited time.

I am writing this while holding the first IGF-Japan preparatory meeting
in Okinawa.  Markus is here, so was Paul Wilson, Rafik Dammak,
Adam Peake and others of some 80 people.

izumi




2010/10/30 Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>:
> 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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           Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita,
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