[Chapter-delegates] Board Election

Thu Apr 24 10:52:18 PDT 2014

Christian, Vint, all,

to add to these points:

The three NomComs I served in made quite specific recommendations to the
Board to improve the elections (the implementation is for the Elections
Committee.) One very important obstacle to finding a good set of candidates
lies in the timetable for that process, and that is one of the main
recommendations made about the elections process.

Another is to increase the opportunities for debate among the candidates so
that the voting chapters community can get to know them, or see their
proposals in detail if they are known. Also this would serve to set a
realistic expectation of how much chapters can expect to see the Trustees
we vote for once they are elected.

Too often they vaporize away, in what may be an extreme interpretation that
the Trustees' obligations are to ISOC as a whole. We don't have strict
accountability processes, which may be fine (we see in other organizations
that they can create more bureaucracy and simulation), but a bit of a
memory where you come from and due to whom you sit in the Board is healthy.
Equally applicable is to be able to measure yourself as a Trustee as your
years of service pass, against the plans you announced.

IMO adding a blank-vote/abstention option is useful and desirable.

Christian's point about the significance of an organic participation of
Trustees in chapter work for the future of ISOC should not be ignored. I
think we are at a crucial juncture for the new administration of ISOC. At
the latest next week, looking at a post-facto analysis of NetMundial, we
should start seeing some respectful attention, two-way exchanges and the
rebirth of organic collaboration between Board, top management, staff,
chapters and members (whether individual or organizational.) I've added
Kathy Brown to the list of recipients in order to deliver this call
decisively.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty

Alejandro Pisanty

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Christian de Larrinaga <cdel at firsthand.net
> wrote:

> Vint - I don't know.
>
> However not knowing any candidates means taking on trust recommendations
> from those who do and that may limit the pool of an informed and engaged
> electorate.
>
> There is also a bit of a concern this time around to find candidates who
> have substantial "chapter" experience - preferably a founder or certainly
> an experienced leader.
>
> Although trustees represent all parts of ISOC there is a key priority to
> transform the roll of chapters in ISOC. The board needs to have that
> maturity of experience of chapters in their midst.
>
> If that doesn't happen in next eighteen to twenty four months then I worry
> that ISOC will be seen as promoting a local view globally rather than as a
> distributed community around the world that just happens to have a US
> registration and HQ.
>
>
> Christian
>
> Vint Cerf wrote:
>
> Abstention is a valid choice and there should be no prejudicial character
> to that. It may actually be useful to have a ballot that permits a chapter
> to submit a vote that effectively votes for no candidates (my
> interpretation of a "blank" ballot). Do others on the list believe that any
> significant fraction of non-voting chapters would submit a ballot if this
> option were available (versus simply not responding)?
>
> v
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Bob Hinden <bob.hinden at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Peter,
>>
>> I hope you didn't interpret my email asking Chapters to vote as
>> interfering with the election.  My thinking is that it's important for as
>> many chapters as possible to vote in the Board election.  Personally, I
>> find it troubling that only half of the chapters (and similar turnout for
>> org members) choose to vote.  Hopefully, the turnout will be higher this
>> year.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> On Apr 23, 2014, at 11:56 PM, Peter Koch <pk at ISOC.DE> wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:35:27PM -0500, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:
>> >
>> >> Vint's question does beg an answer from you. You may decide not to
>> >> interfere with the ongoing election process and answer him and Desiree
>> in
>> >> private, then make your answer public when the polling closes. I don't
>> >> think you have a lot more choice.
>> >
>> > on my calendar it's the 24th today. That is 23 days past the first and
>> one day left
>> > into the voting deadline.  To the latter: I, for one, take the liberty
>> to exploit the
>> > full extent of the deadline the election committee came up with.  I am
>> also
>> > extremely sensitive to "public pressure", especially when it comes to
>> elections.
>> > That links to the former: It truly puzzles me to see a request to a
>> chapter
>> > to justify their vote (to other chapters), even if that is an
>> abstention.
>> > There are several reasons to abstain and sometimes even a qualified
>> abstention
>> > might have more value than a ballot cast under "pressure".  I am pretty
>> sure that several
>> > people on this list who are, sadly, much more qualified from personal
>> experience
>> > than myself, would be able to share some depressing insight. Time to
>> get a globe.
>> >
>> > -Peter
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