[Chapter-delegates] On Board Diversity

[sivasubramanian muthusamy]

Wow +1

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 5:51 AM Veni Markovski via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Wow.
> I don't have time tonight, but will try to respond tomorrow morning. But
> the shortest comment is, indeed, "Wow!"
>
> On 10/7/21 13:57, John Levine via Chapter-delegates wrote:
>
> It appears that Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele via Chapter-delegates <muyiwacaleb at gmail.com> <muyiwacaleb at gmail.com> said:
>
> May I also add the need to start considering regional diversity just like
> we have for the ICANN board
>
> Having been on the ICANN nomcom, I can say that ICANN's rigid geographic diversity rules have
> perverse consequences.  It means that the nomcom is often forced to ignore well qualified
> candidiates solely because they happen to live in the wrong place.
>
> As Ted pointed out, ISOC's board selection process gives each of the
> three groups full control over who they choose as board members. If
> you want to require geographic diversity, how do you plan to do that,
> and what would you hav done about the 2020 election in which the chapters
> voted for a petition candidate who by most measures made the board
> less diverse than any of the nomcom's candidates would have?
>
> R's,
> John
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