[governance] IGC Coordinator Elections 2019 - RESULTS

Sat Sep 28 23:58:35 EDT 2019

 Congratulations to all of you !

Regards, Jahangir

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 6:42 PM 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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