[governance] MAG Selection [URGENT]

Wed Feb 1 19:31:48 EST 2012

Congrats to all the nominees. A very good list.

However, independent of the results produced which I welcome and 
support, I strongly agree with the sentiment of Avri's questions below.

Representativity is the central issue of democracy, and its processes 
must be taken very very seriously, even if sometimes just forthe 
process's sake. I may be wrong, but I seem not to have seen the kind of 
openness (proactive and not just formal), transparency, out-reach effort 
etc that is required for the nomination/ election activity. Things like: 
we need to make repeated calls for nomination, encourage people to 
nominate themselves and others, pulbicize the process and perhaps the 
list of nomcom members as well, make active out reach to various CS 
entities inviting nomination, keeping the list posted of all 
developments, ......

For instance, APC I am sure will forward its own slate of names to the 
IGF secretariat. They should have been invited to submit their nominees 
for IGC nomcom's consideration as well (and this has happened in the 
past). Enriching our catchment of potential candidates and thus the 
final list in this way greatly enhances IGC's legitimacy. And in the 
civil society space legitimacy building and losing is a very live and 
dynamic process. Every single act adds or takes away from it. At times, 
like for the WG on IGF improvements, IGC has been considered the single 
point of CS contact and representivity. We need to work hard to live up 
to such a high responsibility, as mentioned by Avri. And I am really not 
sure if we did in this case, though I am happy to be corrected.

It is important to note that in the WG on IGF improvements we have been 
seeking higher transparency, focussed and active out reach effort, broad 
basing the pool of candidates etc for MAG selection, and we need to 
practise what we preach.

Among many other things, I also could not understand the meaning and use 
of having candidates submit their information in the 'required' format 
after the list of nominees is published. Isnt the required information 
supposed to be submitted precisely to aid the evaluation of nominees?

There a few other points I will like to make, but a little later... 
parminder

On Wednesday 01 February 2012 09:04 PM, Avri Doria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Good names all.
>
> But,
>
> What process was used?
> Was there a public call for nominations? Did I miss seeing that?
> Where are their statements?  Did I miss seeing that?  Are they posted on the web site anywhere?
> Is there a reason for each of these selections in terms of IGC expectations?  Did I miss seeing that? Are they posted somewhere?
>
> In the past we have gotten a Nomcom chair outlining everything in detail.  Did I miss that?
>
> The IGC's claim to represent Civil Society in Ig is tenuous at best
> The lack of any information (or did I miss it?) on this selection risks that even further.
>
>
> avri
>
> On 1 Feb 2012, at 08:06, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
>
>    
>> Dear All,
>>
>> The Names that were submitted to the Coordinators by the NomCom are as follows:
>> 	• Lillian Nalwoga (Ms.) -  Uganda
>> 	• Izumi AIZU (Mr) -  Japan
>> 	• Michael Gurstein (Mr)  - Canada
>> 	• Robert Guerra (Mr) - Canadian&  European (Spain)
>> 	• Bill Drake (Mr) - North American (Lives in Geneva)
>> 	• Fatima Cambronero (Ms) - Argentina
>> 	• Fouad Bajwa (Mr) (current MAG member) -  Pakistan
>>
>> However, these nominees were advised that failure to send their information in  via the required template would mean that their names would not be sent.
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> We thank the NOMCOM for selecting MAG candidates.
>>
>> In the interest of transparency, NOMCOM wrote to advise that they had completed selection of the MAG. We have yet to receive the information in the required format and an email was sent out to the potential candidates to submit their information in the template shown within the email. Potential candidates were advised that failing to have the information submitted in required format could mean that their names would not be put forward. They have been given 12 hours to respond to enable this information to be sent.
>>
>> Submission of names were to be sent on the 31st January 2012.
>>
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