[Community-Discuss] How to mesure performance of afrinic board

[Ali Hussein]

Hi All

I have just recently joined the list and have been following the discussions on the Afrinic Board with interest. Whilst I believe it's too early for me to provide an opinion I have one contribution to make.

Any Board has the fiduciary responsibility to drive the organization's goals as stipulated by its members /shareholders through its Memorandum and Articles which usually are broken down by period Strategic Plans. I believe Boards should ultimately be judged by whether an organisation is meeting/exceeding its mandate through the implementation of the above. 

Do we have in place such reviews? And how are they structured?  Are they public documents we can access? 

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> On 22 Dec 2015, at 10:47 AM, Mark Elkins <mje at posix.co.za> wrote:
> 
> The Board was put there by AFRINIC Members in good standing.
> Ergo, AFRINIC Members suck at choosing Board Members.
> 
>                          ----
> 
> There is a reason why a Term only lasts three years... it allows the
> Membership to correct their errors.
> 
> I personally think the Board does not suck and is actually pretty good.
> 
>> On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 22:15 +0000, Keshwarsingh Nadan wrote:
>> the board sucks
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Owen DeLong [owen at delong.com]
>> Sent: 22 December 2015 1:50
>> To: General Discussions of AFRINIC
>> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] How to mesure performance of afrinic board
>> 
>> As a general rule, the only check and balance on a board is the voting members who can
>> choose to change out the board and the board itself who can (usually) remove a member
>> if it is necessary.
>> 
>> The method for measuring the effectiveness of the board is generally up to each voter
>> to determine for his/her self and I don’t see any reason this should be different for AfriNIC.
>> 
>> I think the members of AfriNIC are perfectly capable of electing the board and that
>> there is no reason we should dictate to them what criteria they should consider when
>> making their votes.
>> 
>> Owen
>> 
>>> On Dec 20, 2015, at 05:14 , Chevalier du Borg <virtual.borg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> i have been thinking about this for a while. there's a triangle of
>>> check and balance that make this system work
>>> 
>>> - board check and balance ceo (and staff?)
>>> 
>>> who does check and balance on board? members only? or the community at large?
>>> I also like to know, what are the thing used to measure whether a
>>> board being effective? should we clarifie this mesures so that its
>>> self-evidence to everyone when board is doing good job or not? should
>>> we add that check and balance formally to responsabilite of governance
>>> committee? i belief good performance and good governance go hand in
>>> hand.
>>> 
>>> thoughts?
>>> 
>>> 
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