[governance] IGC ELECTION RESULTS [Welcoming the New Coordinators of the IGC]

[Guru गुरु]

Dear Deirdre and Mawaki,

Congratulations and wishing you all the best.

Guru

On 02/05/2014 10:06 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
>
> Calls for expressions of interest or nominations were made on the IGC 
> mailing list in June, 2013.By December 31^st , 2013 both positions 
> were vacant. During the calls for election, we had received the 
> following nominations:
>
> 1) Deirdre Williams
>
> 2) Imran Ahmed Shah
>
> 3) Mawaki Chango
>
> 4) Mwendwa Kivuva
>
> Prior to holding the elections, Mwendwa Kivuva withdrew leaving only 
> three remaining candidates. Prior to hosting the elections and 
> preparing ballot papers, we had to verify and check our subscriber 
> database to ensure that things were in order prior to sending the 
> ballot papers. There were some subscribers who had moved and so had 
> inactive email accounts. We had to clean these as well. We also noted 
> that there were some who were subscribe to the mailing list but did 
> not have IGC accounts by registering on the site. We received feedback 
> from some of the subscribers that they did not get ballot papers. The 
> estimated number of subscribers to the mailing list is around 600. The 
> estimated number of account holders who are both subscribed to the 
> mailing list and have IGC accounts is around 400. The number of people 
> who voted was 276. During the elections, we received “Out of Office” 
> responses from a few.
>
> Following last year’s elections and from feedback from the community, 
> this year we introduced the abstention category allowing people to not 
> select a candidate. To all those who exercised their right to vote or 
> to abstain, thank you. Special thanks to ALL the amazing candidates 
> who participated. Special thanks to Imran Ahmed Shah for his 
> continuous commitment to make a difference in his community in 
> Pakistan and also in global forums.
>
>
>  Congratulations to Deirdre Williams who will serve the two year term 
> replacing me. Congratulations to Mawaki Chango who will serve the one 
> year term replacing Norbert Bollow. I am pleased to *formally hand 
> over* and now declare the elections closed. To the new coordinators, I 
> wish you wisdom, good energy, strength as you navigate the waters ahead.
>
> The Election results can be viewed at http://igcaucus.org/co-coordinators
>
>
> Last but not least I would like to thank Chaitanya Dhareshwar and 
> Jeremy Malcolm for being *superstars* in facilitating the elections. 
> The elections was carried out in accordance with the Charter.
>
> Thank you all.
>
> Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro
>

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