[governance] IGC Coordinator Elections 2019 - RESULTS

Wed Sep 25 10:50:34 EDT 2019

Dear all,

I would like to congratulate the newly elected leaders, Bruna and
Sheetal and thank everyone involved in supporting this process,
including Tapani and Ian. It is great, despite the delay in putting
together these elections, that we have new legitimate leaders to lead
us for the next year or so.

I would like to thank Imran for stepping forward as a candidate but
mostly to thank him for his work on the tech aspects. I would like to
strongly urge Bruna and Sheetal to have him close to them as he will
be able to help on the tech aspects of the IGC. It is important to
have someone around with the knowledge and the willingness to help and
I am hoping Imran will be available to help in that capacity,
supporting the two co-cos.

It has been a great privilege to serve the IGC in the past as
Co-coordinator and I can only wish the newly elected officers all the
luck. As always, they know they can count on former Co-cos whenever
needed.

Best regards,
Arsene

2019-09-25 15:49 UTC+02:00, Marilia Maciel <governance at lists.riseup.net>:
> Congratulations to all candidates and to our new coordinators, Bruna and
> Sheetal. Big thanks to Ian and Tapani for their services to the community.
> All the best,
> Marilia
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 3:06 PM Peter Micek <peter at accessnow.org> wrote:
>
>> Agreed, congratulations to Bruna and Sheetal, and thank you Imran for
>> running and continuing this important work!
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 4:02 PM Jacob Odame-Baiden <
>> governance at lists.riseup.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Congratulations to all of you!
>>>
>>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, 12:42 Ian Peter, <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We are pleased to announce the results of the IGC Coordinator
>>>> Elections,
>>>> which closed on September 23.
>>>>
>>>> The final votes were
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bruna Martins dos Santos – 89 votes
>>>>
>>>> Sheetal Kumar – 79 votes
>>>>
>>>> Imran Ahmed Shah – 51 votes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We therefore declare Bruna Martins dos Santos elected for a two year
>>>> term, and Sheetal Kumar for a one year term. Congratulations to all the
>>>> candidates and thanks for offering their services. Terms of office
>>>> start
>>>> now.
>>>>
>>>> As a result of the elections, 148 people have declared themselves to be
>>>> members of the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus: this includes
>>>> 12
>>>> who chose to vote “None of the Above”. The list of members is now
>>>> available
>>>> at https://igcaucus.org/igc-members-september-2019/
>>>>
>>>> Further details on the election process appear below.
>>>>
>>>> ELECTION PROCESS
>>>>
>>>> This election had to deal with the unusual circumstance of electing two
>>>> Coordinators, because of delays in holding previous elections. The
>>>> results
>>>> get IGC back on track where elections become an annual event to elect
>>>> one
>>>> Cordinator, who will work with the ongoing Cordinator who has not
>>>> completed
>>>> their term.
>>>>
>>>> A total of 663 invitations to vote were sent: this was the total of
>>>> email addresses which had been on the IGC mailing list for more than 2
>>>> months. Of this total, 148 voted: this was in line with or above
>>>> expectations, as many people on the list do not identify as civil
>>>> society
>>>> members but have an interest in internet governance and like to follow
>>>> activities here (and others choose to have more than one email address
>>>> on
>>>> list). By comparison, the number of voters in the last election where
>>>> there
>>>> was more than one candidate and a vote took place was only 99.
>>>>
>>>> LimeSurvey software was used and adopted for election purposes. We wish
>>>> to acknowledge the help of a small group of testers who helped us to
>>>> refine
>>>> the software – Norbert Bollow, Farzaneh Badii, Deirdre Williams, Peter
>>>> Akinremi Taiwo, Arsene Tungali, and Chris Prince Udochukwu Njọkụ.
>>>>
>>>> Invitations to vote were sent on September 11. A follow up email to
>>>> those who had not yet voted was sent on September 18. Other reminders
>>>> were
>>>> posted on the IGC Caucus mailing list. Voting closed on September 23.
>>>>
>>>> The mailing process resulted in 14 bounced emails, including 7 auto
>>>> responses indicating that the mailing address was no longer in use:
>>>> these
>>>> will be referred to the incoming coordinators to refine the list.
>>>>
>>>> One person accidentally voted twice using separate emails. One of these
>>>> votes was eliminated.
>>>>
>>>> The software required people to confirm their eligibility to vote by
>>>> answering four basic questions:
>>>>
>>>> a. that they identify as a member of civil society
>>>>
>>>> b. that they have been subscribed to IGC mailing list for more than 2
>>>> months
>>>>
>>>> c. that they accept the IGC Charter
>>>>
>>>> d. that they have not already voted in this election (perhaps utilising
>>>> another email address)
>>>>
>>>> In addition to the 148 people who completed the voting process, an
>>>> additional 39 people who had commenced the process determined not to
>>>> continue before reaching the voting page.
>>>>
>>>> The system was not preferential. All votes for all candidates were of
>>>> equal value.
>>>>
>>>> All in all, we believe the process went smoothly, drew a good level of
>>>> participation, and helped strengthen IGC. This would not have happened
>>>> without the strong groundswell of involvement from many people,
>>>> reflected
>>>> in the level of participation in voting and the overall interest in
>>>> seeing
>>>> this occur in a timely fashion. It also could not have happened without
>>>> the
>>>> strong preliminary work of the Tech Team, led by Imran Ahmed Shah,
>>>> which
>>>> restored the website of IGC, creating the basic infrastructure that
>>>> allowed
>>>> us to develop a voting system and conduct this exercise. They also
>>>> deserve
>>>> your thanks.
>>>>
>>>> As determined in discussions including with the previous Coordinator,
>>>> voting totals for each candidate have been released, as well as names
>>>> of
>>>> all those who voted and therefore are now members of IGC. In line with
>>>> general privacy and GDPR provisions, other details of voters (email
>>>> addresses etc) will not be released, not will details of who voted for
>>>> which candidates. The detailed voting slips will be kept for a period
>>>> of
>>>> three months, or longer if necessary to resolve any appeals, and will
>>>> then
>>>> be erased. The core of the voting software will be retained for
>>>> possible
>>>> future use.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ian Peter and Tapani Tarvainen
>>>>
>>>> Returning Officers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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