[governance] IMPORTANT: 10 members required to approve a

[Mawaki Chango]

I second the proposed amendment.

Mawaki

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:

> I intend to propose an important amendment to our charter, which will have
> effect for this year only.
>
> The charter requires that an IGC nominating committee select only one slate
> of candidates at a time, and that it take two months before making its
> selections (one month to determine the criteria for selections, and another
> month to decide on the candidates).
>
> *This would not leave us enough time to nominate members for the CSTD's
> IGF working group. * Moreover, since a nominating committee will also be
> required to appoint a new appeals team and new representatives for the MAG,
> I am proposing a streamlined procedure for this year only.
>
> The charter amendment that I propose is as follows:
>
> "Notwithstanding any other provision of this charter, the nominating
> committee that serves to select representatives to the IGF working group of
> the CSTD (Commission on Science and Technology for Development) in 2010:
>
> (a) may abbreviate its procedures for determining the selection criteria
> for candidates to that working group and selecting those candidates, as
> necessary to meet the CSTD's schedule for convening that group;
>
> (b) may also select candidates to be put forward by the IGC for the MAG
> (Multistakeholder Advisory Group) that is next convened following the
> Vilnius meeting of the IGF; and
>
> (c) may also select candidates for the next appeals team of the IGC."
>
> In order to put this charter amendment to a vote, I require nine other
> members of the IGC to propose the amendment.  I am therefore requesting nine
> others to speak up in support of the proposal above.
>
> NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT.  It is only a call for
> support to put the amendment to a vote.  The vote itself will be conducted
> in conjunction with the upcoming coordinator election.  Once nine other
> members have spoken in favour, there will be no need for others to respond.
>
> --
>
> *Jeremy Malcolm
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