[governance] MAG Selection [URGENT]

Wed Feb 1 19:41:11 EST 2012

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:31 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

> **
> 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, ......
>
> This is why I have made the suggestion that we may need to develop clear
guidelines. Having been said, the NomCom have also been asked to prepare a
Report of their Selection Process.

> 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?
>
> For the record, when the information was first published on the governance
site through an email that was forwarded from Avri to the List, the
template was attached within the message from the Under Secretary General
and the guidelines were also published on the IGF site. All nominees have
to exercise their own due diligence and need to ensure that care is taken
to read the instructions. All those submitting nominations also need to do
their due diligence. Kindly note that as co-coordinator, my involvement
came after the list was forwarded to me to send but noticing that there
were material deviations from the instructions from UNDESA through the UN
IGF Secretariat, I asked those selected to tailor their submissions in the
required template.

> 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> <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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