[Community-Discuss] 1. Universities involvement within AFRINIC (and Internet ecosystem)
afia faith
faithafia at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 18:24:58 UTC 2018
Hello community,
Please I just need more clarifications on the Universities involvement
within AFRINIC (and Internet ecosystem)
1..What are the issues that made the two items related to universities non
achieved in 2009-2013 strategic plan?
2.. Have these issues been solved in
2016-2020 strategic plan?
Regards
Afi Edoh
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> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 20:55:54 +0200
> From: Bope Christian <christianbope at gmail.com>
> To: community-discuss at afrinic.net
> Subject: [Community-Discuss] Faulty result for Western Africa in
> AfriNIC AGMM Elections
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> Dear AFRINIC Members and Community,
>
> There has been much discussion about the results of the elections held
> during the AGMM on 10 May 2018, and associated processes.
>
> I will try to answer these questions:
>
> What is the election process?
> What happened in previous years?
> What happened in 2018?
> What does the election process says about the ?None of the above? option?
> How should the result be interpreted when ?None of the above? receives the
> most votes?
> Does AFRINIC have an election appeal process?
> Should the result stand as previously announced?
> What are the future actions?
>
> ## What is the Election Process?
>
> The Election Process (sometimes called the election guidelines) is
> approved by the Board in terms of the Bylaws article 13.2:
>
> 13.2. The election of the Directors of the company shall be carried out
> in line with the Election process approved by the Board.
>
> The current Election Process was revised and approved by the Board in 2014
> (Resolutions 201404.196 and 201411.218), and is published at <
> https://afrinic.net/en/community/elections/bod-election/process <
> https://afrinic.n/>>.
> Under section 9.2, the following bullet points appear (the bullet numbers
> are not in the original):
>
> [1] ? Voters should only vote for one candidate per category/region.
> Each mark on a ballot paper represents one vote. A ballot with more than
> one mark per category/region will be considered spoilt, and not be counted.
>
> [2] ? The ballot paper should provide voters with the option to not vote
> for any candidate (a.k.a. "None of the Above").
>
> [3] ? This will be a secret ballot election. An inclusion of any
> personal data on the ballot paper will invalidate the vote and will be
> counted as spoilt.
>
> [4] ? Elections will be closed as soon as the last member or proxy
> present in the meeting room casts his/her vote. Candidates with the highest
> number of votes in each category will be declared winners.
>
> [5] ? In the event of a tie for an open position, voting for that
> position will be repeated (Only by paper ballot) the same day until there
> is a winner.
>
> [6] ? All open positions shall be subject to an election process even if
> there is only one candidate. In that event, if the option [none of the
> above] got more votes than the only candidate, then the seat shall be
> considered vacant and the Board will be requested to apply provisions of
> the Bylaws to temporarily fill the vacant seat.
>
> ## What happened in previous years?
>
> The option to vote for ?None of the above? has appeared on AFRINIC Board
> election ballots every year since 2013. In 2017, the final computed results
> contained scores for the ?None of the above? option. Since those scores did
> not make ?none of the above? the winner, they were not mentioned in the
> announcement of results published at <
> https://afrinic.net/en/news/2139-results-of-afrinic-agmm-election <
> https://afrinic.net/en/news/2139-results-of-afrinic-agmm-election>>
>
> ## What happened in 2018?
>
> Three AFRINIC Board seats were up for election at the AGMM on 10 May
> 2018. For all three seats, ?None of the above? received the most votes,
> and as a consequence, the seats have remained vacant for the time being.
> This was the first time that ?None of the above? received the most votes
> for any Board seat. The result was announced during the AGMM and later
> published at <
> https://afrinic.net/en/news/2391-results-of-afrinic-agmm-elections >
>
> ## What does the election process say about the ?None of the above? option?
>
> Bullet point 2 in the election process specifies that ?None of the above?
> should appear as a choice for all seats, not only for seats where there is
> only one candidate.
>
> Bullet point 4 in the election process specifies that the candidate with
> the highest number of votes will be the winner. However, it is silent
> about what happens if the highest number of votes goes to ?None of the
> above? instead of a candidate.
>
> Bullet point 6 in the election process specifies what happens when ?None
> of the above? gets the highest number of votes in an election with only one
> candidate, but is silent about seats with multiple candidates.
>
> In summary, the election process is clear about what happens in an
> election with one candidate when ?None of the above? wins, but is silent
> about what happens in an election with more than one candidate when ?None
> of the above? wins.
>
> ## How should the result be interpreted when ?None of the above? receives
> the most votes?
>
> It is a widely-accepted principle that, if a written process is silent on
> some point, then the intent should be considered.
>
> The intended meaning of the ?None of the above? option is clear in the
> case of an election with only one candidate: bullet point 6 states that, if
> ?None of the above? gets the most votes, then the seat remains vacant.
>
> In an election with multiple candidates, we have already seen that bullet
> point 2 requires a ?None of the above? option, but it is silent about what
> happens if that option receives the most votes. Some people have argued
> that the seat should remain vacant (pointing to the intent behind bullet
> point 6), and some have argued that the winner should be the candidate
> other than ?None of the above? who received the most votes (pointing to the
> text of bullet point 4).
>
> The fact that bullet point 2 explicitly requires a ?None of the above?
> option for all seats, suggests that the intention was for ?None of the
> above? to have a meaning different from an abstention. After all, if
> voting for ?None of the above? was intended to have the same meaning as an
> abstention, then there would be no need for a ?None of the above? option on
> the ballot, and voters could simply abstain from voting for that seat.
>
> ## Does AFRINIC have an election appeal process?
>
> There isn?t any documented process for appealing the result of an AFRINIC
> Board election. The committee handling the election (Nomination committee
> and Election committee) should make sure that the election guideline is
> explain clearly to members before the process start in order to avoid
> misinterpretation
>
> ## Should the result stand as previously announced?
>
> The Board recognises the objections that were raised a few days after the
> election, on Wednesday 16 May 2018, but notes that no objections were
> raised on the day of the election, Thursday 10 May 2018. The Board has
> decided that the results stand as they were announced immediately after the
> votes were counted. That means that the affected seats remain vacant for
> the time being.
>
> ## What are the future actions?
>
> The Board recognises that the process does not make it clear what happens
> when ?None of the above? receives the most votes in an election with
> multiple candidates. The Board would like to encourage the committee
> handling the election in future to ensure that members understand the
> election guidelines before voting starts. Furthermore, the Board intends to
> review the election process for future elections which will include a
> public consultation. The Board will also consider an appeal process during
> the review of the guideline
>
> The Board intends to fill the vacant seats in terms of the Bylaws article
> 13.14. To this end, the Board has called for expressions of interest; see <
> https://www.afrinic.net/en/news/2395-filling-of-the-casual-vacancies <
> https://www.afrinic.net/en/news/2395->>. The seats to be filled are the
> three seats that were included in the election on 10 May 2018, and a fourth
> seat that was not included in that election.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Christian D. Bope, Ph.D
> Chairman, AFRINIC Board
>
>
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> From: "Marcus K. G. Adomey" <madomey at hotmail.com>
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> "Alan Barrett" <alan.barrett at afrinic.net>
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> Western Africa in AfriNIC AGMM Elections
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> Dear CEO,
>
> "All the votes went to the only candidate"; how can you assert that if
> "none of above" votes were not casted and published? "none of above" was
> simply ignored for the GC election in 2017 in clear violation of the
> guidelines.
> "none of the above " was ignored where it was supposed to be considered.
>
> Furthermore, at 1:38 and 12:14, NomCom Chair counted "none of above" votes
> as "invalid" votes for board election.
>
> All seems to concur to the facts that officers not on top of affairs
> leading to issues.
>
> Ilegality, irrationality and procedural failure are making afrinic set
> bad precedences.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Marcus
>
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> From: Alan Barrett <alan.barrett at afrinic.net>
> Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2018 5:34:39 AM
> To: General Discussions of AFRINIC
> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] Faulty result for
> Western Africa in AfriNIC AGMM Elections
>
>
>
> > On 9 Jun 2018, at 01:27, Marcus K. G. Adomey <madomey at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > If "none of the above" votes were counted to determine the winner, they
> should have been published.
>
> I am inclined to agree. We can avoid that mistake in future.
>
> > For GC election in 2017, there was only one candidate; " none of the
> above" or "against" votes were not even counted and I wonder how the
> winner was determined.
>
> You can see in the video of the announcement of the results of the 2017
> Governance Committee that 100 votes were cast, and all the votes went to
> the only candidate. See the first 40 seconds of the video at <
> https://youtu.be/HSJCRrKoOgs>. This obviously means that zero votes went
> to ?None of the above?. I don?t know how you jump from that to ?votes were
> not even counted? or ?I wonder how the winner was determined?.
>
> Alan Barrett
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> > From: Willy MANGA <mangawilly at gmail.com>
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> > Hello dear community,
> > first of all thank you chairman for the publication of the 2016-2020
> > strategic plan.
> >
> > In 2009 - 2013 strategic plan there were two items related to
> universities :
> >
> > 1. Develop long term relation with academic institutions
> >
> > 2. research and development in collaboration with academic institutions.
> >
> > They were not achieved unfortunately.
> >
> > While it's a little far away from today, is it possible to know what
> > were the issues ?
> >
> > In this regard, in the current strategic plan on the page related to
> > AFRINIC market segment (P. 30), no challenges have been identified
> > concerning universities.
> >
> > I believe universities (through REN sometimes) should be more involved
> > in the Internet ecosystem:
> > ?* research and development
> > ?* capacity building
> > ?* ....
> >
> > From my point of view, it should be a win-win relation but we (the
> > community) have to attract them and let them understand their role in
> > the ecosystem.
> > On the other side I know that universities have A LOT of internal
> > challenges but with a lot of commitments they can address the various
> > issues.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > --
> > Willy Manga
> > @ongolaboy
> > https://ongola.blogspot.com/
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