[governance] Calls for Nominations for IGC Coordinator [2014-2016]

Tue Nov 12 01:19:26 EST 2013

Dear All IGC Members, Good morning from Pakistan,

I am thankful to Ms Deirdre Williams for nominating my name for the election of IGC Coordinator, even she had support from Ms Ginger and her name was also announced as candidate list. 

I hereby accept this nomination and I will try my best to meet your expectations, if I am elected.

DISCLOSURE: 
Although I believe that there is no limitation under
the IGC CS Charter as a requisite criterion for the candidate of coordinator election
to disclose his/her funding relationship, however, for transparency purpose, I would like
disclose that I have never obtained any kind of local or foreign funding for my
initiatives which includes Linguistic Internet Council, Urdu Internet Society,
Internet Governance Forum of Pakistan, and to lead working groups of Websphere
User Group, Tivoli User Group, Rational User Group, Technology Foresight
Project of ICT for Sustainable Development (National & Provincial
Committees), organizing BIRDS Pakistan as a think tank for innovative research, Activities related to MDG Forum 2010, Promoting
Information Security Professionals of Pakistan, Development of Common Hub for
ISOC chapter rejuvenation process in Pakistan and Organizing Workshop at APrIGF
2003 at Seoul. I have no funding source or do not charge any membership fee. 

However,
I got ICANN’s fellowship to attend ICANN’s 36thSeoul Meeting in 2009
which mechanism is obvious for most of the IGC members. I also have avail support from International Islamic University, Islamabad to host IGF remote hubs in 2011 & 2012. Similarly I also have avail support from APrIGF to host IGF-PAK workshop at APrIGF 2003 at Seoul.

I also feel it important to mention that I am not able for any commitment (w.r.t. financial support to bear the expenses) for the participation in-person to attend forth coming foreign meetings of ICANN, IGF or IGC.

Thanking you and Best Regards

Imran Ahmed Shah

>________________________________
> From: Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com>
>To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>; Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> 
>Sent: Monday, 11 November 2013, 19:00
>Subject: Re: [governance] Calls for Nominations for IGC Coordinator [2014-2016]
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>Dear IGC members,
>I would like to nominate Imran Ahmed Shah for the position as Co-cordinator. I feel very honoured that Ginger should have nominated me, and I am very grateful to all those who have given me their support, but I also feel that it is important to the IGC's survival that there should be a choice of nominees, and I know that Imran has had nominations on previous occasions. I also feel that he may be able to bring a different perspective to the work that the co-coordinators need to do. I have asked Imran and he told me that he would accept nomination.
>I hope that before nominations close on 1st December there will be other candidates as well who would be willing to give their time
>Best wishes
>Deirdre.
>
>
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>On 10 November 2013 08:23, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Dear Colleagues,
>>
>>
>>Further to the June 6, 2013 notice for calls for coordinator, we are happy to announce that we will close the calls for nominations on December 1, 2013. 
>>
>>For several years now each time 
there has been a coordinator elections, there has often been 
dissatisfaction with the candidates or selection of candidates. We would like to change the pattern this year and this was why we gave the community ample opportunity to start thinking about candidates. This 
year, we started making early calls to start thinking about nominating 
someone or standing for the elections for the 2014-2016 term.
>>
>>
>>We would like to invite you to consider standing by either nominating 
yourself or if you think someone would be great for the task, please 
liaise with them and nominate them on the list.
>>
>>The call for nominations on December, 1, 2013 to allow for elections. having served in this position for what will soon be two years, I thought I should add some reflections that may help those who are thinking of standing or to encourage people to stand.
>>
>>Reflections 
>>The responsibilities of a co-coordinator is to assist in the facilitation of discussions, encouraging diverse views to be heard, and encouraging members to initiate initiatives within the ambit of the Charter and providing a platform for advocacy. The role and responsibilities will be an opportunity to manage diverse and sometimes antagonistic views. It requires strength, courage and emotional intelligence to manage the responsibilities. For me personally, it has been an incredible opportunity learning about dealing with diverse voices and I can say that I have learnt the discipline of restraint where at times I have had to hold back my view because facilitators have to have some form of neutrality and act in the best interests of the IGC community. 
>>
>>Whoever gets elected, you can rest assured that you can count on the assistance of former coordinators when from time to time things needs to be clarified or you would like to draw from the counsel of the majority before deliberating on decisions. It is also an exciting time for Internet Governance. 
>>
>>
>>
>>The co-coordinator will be immersed in intense preparation with the IGC community as it prepares for things to commit to next year, generally with the IGC, Rio Meeting and other foras.
>>
>>
>>Current Nominations Received
>>
>>	1. Deirdre Williams
>>	2. x
>>	3. x
>>
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>>
>>Kind Regards,
>>Sala
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>>
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>>On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Dear All,
>>>
>>>Noting that we are in the mid- year of 2013, for those interested in standing in the co-Coordinator elections or if you feel like  would like to nominate someone, this would be a good time to start thinking about it. So that when the time comes to call for Nominees, we have a pool of people to choose from. 
>>>
>>>Thank you.
>>>
>>>Kind Regards,
>>>
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