[governance] CSTD Representatives - report from NomCom

Ian Peter ian.peter at ianpeter.com
Fri Oct 29 23:02:34 EDT 2010 

Hi Adam,

We did not formally adopt a position on this suggestion. But I do know that
this was considered by Nomcom members in their individual thinking on the
matter and was raised as a consideration during our processes. However it
was not one of our formal selection criteria.

Speaking personally, I do not think that being a MAG representative of civil
society would make a person less capable of independently assessing its
value and impact. Indeed it might even allow me a more thorough perspective.

Ian


> From: Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>
> Reply-To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>
> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:46:05 +0900
> To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
> Subject: Re: [governance] CSTD Representatives - report from NomCom
> 
> 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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