[governance] Fwd: MAG and CSTD WG meetings

[Valeria Betancourt]

Hi Bill,

You are right. We presented APC's nominations to the NomCom for  
consideration on Jan 20th.

Valeria


On 02/02/2012, at 3:13, William Drake wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Feb 2, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Adam Peake wrote:
>
>> I'll also be in Geneva.
>
> And I live here.
>
> My thanks to the nomcom for including me.  Of course, since IGC and  
> APC both nominated me three times prior, there's obviously no  
> guarantee that UN NY will change its apparent practice of reserving  
> any slots for US citizens for TC and business, but it's nice to be  
> nominated anyway.
>
> On Feb 2, 2012, at 1:31 AM, parminder wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I agree with others there should be clearer procedures and reporting  
> requirements for IGC's nomcoms, as there are inter alia for  
> ICANN's.  This has been a recurrent issue not only with the  
> selection of MAG candidates, but also the WGIGF and if I recall  
> correctly WGIG...
>
>> Things like: we need to make repeated calls for nomination,  
>> encourage people to nominate themselves and others,
>
> There were messages on the list from Jacqueline, Sala, I believe  
> Izumi, maybe others…?  Maybe more of an ongoing thread would have  
> been desirable….
>
>> 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, ...…
>
> Sure
>>
>> 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).
>
> Valeria can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe APC did submit  
> these to IGC and report them on the list.  They included
>
> Africa:  Anriette Esterhuysen, Association for Progressive  
> Communications, South Africa
> Asia: Shahzad Ahmad, BytesForAll, Pakistan
> LAC: Magaly Pazello, Center on Communication and Emergence, Brazil;  
> Carlos Afonso, Instituto Nupef, Brazil
> North America and Europe: William Drake, University of Zurich,  
> Switzerland; David Souter, ict Development Associates, United Kingdom
>
> Speaking of transparency, it would also be nice to have some idea  
> how UN NY makes its selections, but we've been saying that for six  
> years to no end…
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
>
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