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

[Ali Hussein]

Serge

There are tools available to do this from a single board member to the
collective.  The important thing to note though is that the evaluation must
come from an informed premise of what the goals were.

Ali Hussein
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On Dec 22, 2015 8:32 PM, "serge ilunga" <sergekbk at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 Ali ,
> Mission (Goal) and Values are the key drivers of any organization.
> In the case of AfriNIC, the BOD is to put in place a strategic plan.
> This responsability being shared by the whole board, what can be the
> metric to evaluate BOD members performance.
> Even the metrics are set, how can we evaluate the performance of a single
> BOD member while their terms don't start at the same time?
>
>
> Kind Regards.
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>
>> 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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