[governance] IGC Coordinator Elections 2019 - RESULTS

Peter Micek peter at accessnow.org
Wed Sep 25 09:05:25 EDT 2019


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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