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From: Avri Doria <avri@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:40:42 +1200
Subject: [governance] Volunteers for nomcom
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Hi,
As mentionned in a previous mail, we are in the process of setting up
a nomination committee (nomcom) to help select candidates for the IGF
Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG).
This nomcom will be picked through a random procedure among willing
volunteers who are members of this caucus. The procedure works best
if there is a large number of volunteers and they are a diverse group
in terms of criteria such as origins, competences, age and gender.
We have set the required minimum number of volunteers at 25, though
the more the better - personally I would like to see 50, but I am an
optimist. At 25, each volunteer has a 1 in 5 chance of being
selcted. At 50 each volunteer has a 1 in 10 chance of being selected.
Currently with 1 day to go before the deadline for volunteers (the
deadline is 30 March AnyTZ), we only have 18 out of the required
minimum 25. If we do not have 25 volunteers by the end of the day
on the 30th, this process will be terminated and another method of
choosing a list will need to be discovered.
I therefore want to reiterate to this list the call for people to
volunteer in the next day, particularly for people originating from
developing countries and regions like Asia, Latin America, Africa and
the Middle-east, and including people who rarely post but have
followed regularly the activities of the caucus. This would make the
procedure as open and legitimate as possible.
The work of the NomCom will be conducted online and will take place
during the first weeks of April, in order to deliver a list of
recommendations for the UN Secretary General before April 18th.
One important note : it has been agreed that those volunteers who are
selected as members of the nomcom will not be eligible for
participation in the IGF-MAG, but people who ultimately wish to be
considered for the MAG are invited to volunteer for the nomcom
nonetheless, and leave to fate or chance to decide where they will be
more useful on the nomcom or as candidates for the MAG. Again, it
should be noted that volunteers who are not selected for the nomcom
remain eligible for selection for the IGC candidates list. And it
should be remembered that selection by the nomcom for the IGC
candidate list is not a guarantee of ultimate appointment to the MAG.
I keep the updated list of volunteers at: http://www.nomadicity.net/
volunteers.html
Oh yes, one final thing: please volunteer.
a.
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