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

Wed Dec 23 11:29:37 UTC 2015

Serge

My understanding of board responsibility is that it's collective. The only place/time I see where individual board members are held accountable is during AGMs where members/shareholders vote to retain or replace board members.

It's possible that there is a better way of evaluating individual board members but haven't come across one yet..:-)

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> On 22 Dec 2015, at 8:31 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? 
>> 
>> Ali Hussein
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>> "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought".  ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
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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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