[governance] CSTD Representatives - report from NomCom

Hakikur Rahman email at hakik.org
Sun Oct 31 05:35:47 EDT 2010 

Congratulations to the selected IGC nominees to 
the CTSD. Also agree with Adam´s view and Bill´s 
proposal. This process would strengthen the 
NomCom contrinution to the CTSD and at the same 
time put forward their view on MAG.

Best regards,
Hakikur

At 07:15 30-10-2010, William Drake wrote:
>Hi
>
>Congratulations and thanks much to the 
>nomcom.  With regard to Adam's concerns, at this 
>point perhaps the best option is to be 
>transparent and present the nominations with a 
>sentence or two identifying each that would 
>include mention of MAG membership where 
>relevant.  Then the WG Chair and CSTD Chair and 
>Vice Chairs can make whatever determination they 
>see fit in a fully informed manner without any 
>risk of post hoc concerns being expressed about the IGC's process

>
>Best,
>
>Bill
>
>
>On Oct 30, 2010, at 5:02 AM, Ian Peter wrote:
>
> > 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 IGC’s
> >>> 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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