[governance] IGC Coordinator Election 2015

Mon Jan 12 09:23:05 EST 2015

Thanks Mawaki, hope the incoming coordinator will not by-pass this moving
forward.
rgds
Remmy

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Remmy, your point is well taken.
> I personally agree with you. Anyone who would want to vote that way should
> have at least nominated someone, if not themselves (and we generally do
> share, before the closing of nomination deadline, the list of nominations
> received to help them make such decision.)
>
> The current formulation is what has been requested verbatim, so let us
> keep it as a tentative solution for now and we can open the debate as to
> what should be the preferred formulation going forward.
> Regards,
>
> Mawaki
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Remmy Nweke <remmyn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Mawaki
>> I think the right thing should have been to have abstain button rather
>> than None, which is very much discouraging for candidates and potentials
>> candidates.
>>
>> It is sad that someone should be making such a request which I think is
>> not in the best interest of any organisation, let alone a consensus-based
>> organ like IG caucus.
>>
>> What happens if we have a good number of None button on record? It will
>> send wrong signals.
>>
>> So, I will prefer and propose Abstain to None.
>>
>> I hope my point helps.
>>
>> Regards and keep walking.
>> Remmy Nweke
>> @ITRealms
>>
>>
>> On Monday, January 12, 2015, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> On a member's request for the inclusion of the option to vote for none
>>> of the nominees, as a pre-requisite for him to exercise his right to vote
>>> (regardless of the actual choice he will eventually make), I have added
>>> "None of these nominees" to the response options for the Election question
>>> in the poll.
>>>
>>> I have done this so as to make sure no IGC member feels deprived of
>>> their right to express their vote. I have resolved to make the change now
>>> because the person claims this is at least the second election he is making
>>> this request, keeping in mind that we don't have an efficient way to keep
>>> track of this kind of suggestions from one election to another, which are
>>> mostly handled by a different person each time, and that as a result the
>>> request might fall through the cracks again at the next election.
>>> Hopefully, we now have a template including the "none" option which will be
>>> carried over into the next elections.
>>>
>>> I am letting you all know of this in the interest of transparency and
>>> hoping that the addition of that option would not have made any material
>>> difference for those who have already expressed their vote. If you have any
>>> issue or concern with this please let us know, preferably to our individual
>>> email addresses including Deirdre and myself, unless you think the whole
>>> list needs to be aware of it.
>>>
>>> Thank you for your understanding.
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Mawaki
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> My apologies for just sending a vote reminder to a bunch of people who
>>>> most probably didn't need one. Please discard if you have already voted or
>>>> located your initial email invite. This was the result of mistakenly
>>>> hitting the wrong button while I was trying to send a reminder to just one
>>>> person.
>>>>
>>>> Please indulge that I repeat this. When you check your mailbox using
>>>> your human senses and you don't find your ballot, the first thing to do is
>>>> this:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Use your email client's search engine to look up key words related
>>>> to this subject. For that purpose, the subject line of your email
>>>> invitation to vote is supposed to be  "Voting link for 2015 IGC
>>>> coordinator election"
>>>>
>>>> Only after you did that, making sure your spam folder is also included
>>>> in the search, and still haven't found your ballot, then you may:
>>>>
>>>> 2) Send me a note off list reporting this, and I will check the record
>>>> and make sure you receive your ballot.
>>>>
>>>> If our record actually shows that you were sent a ballot, I will send
>>>> you a reminder the subject line of which should read "Reminder to
>>>> participate in survey" (in case you need to look that up too using a search
>>>> engine.)
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your understanding.
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Mawaki
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> For all who have reported (and maintained) that they have not received
>>>>> their ballot so far, here is the status:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Sonigitu Ekpe: your name is in the voting list and the system
>>>>> reports you were sent a ballot to your Corssriver state government account.
>>>>> I just sent you again another invite in the form of a reminder (subject
>>>>> line: Reminder to participate in survey). Please check and carefully or let
>>>>> us know if you no longer have access to that email account.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Shaila Mistry: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) Chantal Lebrument: Idem, to the email you are subscribed with.
>>>>>
>>>>> 4) Judith Hellerstein: True you were not sent a ballot, but I also
>>>>> have hard time locating you on the membership list. I just ran your name in
>>>>> the IGC user list page after page (it's painful not to be able to search
>>>>> the full database of members' names at once... so please bear with me and
>>>>> let me know your answers to the following questions.) Have you subscribed
>>>>> to the list with this name? Have you been a member for at least 8 weeks now?
>>>>>
>>>>> 5) Raúl Echeberría: In fact this is the one case we spotted early as
>>>>> being subject to a glitch was. Have you, Raul, discontinued your membership
>>>>> recently before reactivating it or have you remained a member for at least
>>>>> the last 2 months?
>>>>>
>>>>> I would appreciate everybody check and double check thoroughly (and be
>>>>> clear about having been a subscribed member for the last 2 months at least)
>>>>> before sending a claim that they have not received their ballot. Thank you
>>>>> for your understanding.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Mawaki
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear IGC Fellow Members,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. It is my pleasure to welcome
>>>>>> you back into the new year first by wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and
>>>>>> pleasant journey throughout 2015 filled with excitements, accomplishments,
>>>>>> joys and empathy; secondly by inviting you to choose our next new
>>>>>> coordinator.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The individual you will be voting for will, if he or she wins,
>>>>>> replace me as I conclude my term, and will be in custody during 2015 and
>>>>>> 2016. For the first year (2015) she or he will be working alongside Ms.
>>>>>> Deirdre Williams as co-coordinator for our activities.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For this purpose, you will be receiving in the next hour or so an
>>>>>> invitation email in your mailbox (at the email with which you are
>>>>>> subscribed to the IGC list.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If one hour from now if you still haven't received your invitation
>>>>>> while you think you have maintained continuous membership over the last two
>>>>>> months (please, also check your spam folder), do let me know so that I can
>>>>>> look into it. While I do not expect many such cases, I have noted one
>>>>>> instance where this might likely be the case. So please even if you don't
>>>>>> intend to cast your vote right away, I would appreciate if you can check
>>>>>> within the next 24 hours and make sure you have received your invitation
>>>>>> (please do NOT send me a message if you have received your invitation, only
>>>>>> if you have not but think you should have.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good luck to our three candidates, and happy voting for us all!
>>>>>> Warm regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mawaki
>>>>>>
>>>>>> =====================================
>>>>>> Mawaki Chango, PhD
>>>>>> Founder
>>>>>> DIGILEXIS
>>>>>> http://www.digilexis.com
>>>>>> m.chango at digilexis.com | *kichango at gmail.com*
>>>>>> Twitter: @digilexis & @prodigilexis
>>>>>> Mob. +225 57 55 57 53 | +225 44 48 77 64
>>>>>> Skype: digilexis
>>>>>> =====================================
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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(publishers of) DigitalSENSE Business News;
ITREALMS, NaijaAgroNet
(Multiple-award winning medium)
Published by: DigitalSENSE Africa Media Ltd
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Bolade Junction, Oshodi-Lagos
M: 234-8033592762, 8023122558, 8051000475,
T: @ITRealms <http://www.twitter.com/ITRealms>
[Member, NIRA Executive Board]
Author: A Decade of ICT Reportage in Nigeria
<https://www.facebook.com/adecadeofictreportageinnigeria>
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