[governance] IGC Coordinator Elections 2019 - RESULTS

[Ian Peter]

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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