[governance] CSTD Representatives - report from NomCom

Fri Oct 29 23:25:56 EDT 2010

Dear,

Nomcom
Congratulations for this good work you have undertaken. I appreciated
the methodology and evaluation criteria (+ regional balance !)

Congratulations to our elected representatives. They are experienced !

Cheers,

Pascal

2010/10/30, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>:
> 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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