[governance] CSTD Representatives - report from NomCom

[Adam Peake]

Ian, thank you and thank you to the NomCom.

Your criteria:

>
>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
>


I suggested, and a couple of people I think 
supported, that it would not be a good idea to 
have current MAG members and advisors to the MAG 
chair as members of the CSTD working group.  I 
think the reasons self-evident: It is not good 
practise to have people examining their own work. 
The MAG itself will be a subject of discussion. 
The MAG has of course been one of the main 
entities in shaping the IGF.  Self review is not 
good practise.

One would think interviewing current and past MAG 
members and advisors would be a priority, having 
them as members of the working group, not.

It also potentially gives those who object to the 
IGF reason to criticize the outcomes of the 
working group.

Just wondering if the NomCom considered this and have any opinions.

Thanks,

Adam



>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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