[seedig] Announcing the results of the SEEDIG Executive Committee elections

Fri Dec 13 09:27:09 CET 2019

Dear Katarina,

I’m very happy you and other Armenian fellows can write to this list!

Congratulations with your recent joining the SEEsummary Editorial team. As
a veteran EuroDIGer (since 2009), I propose including in the upcoming SEE
Summary a yesterday Breaking News and Top Story about the US Senate
recognition of the Armenian Genocide

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/474306-senate-passes-armenian-genocide-resolution

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/12/politics/senate-armenian-genocide-resolution-passes/index.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/12/12/senate-senate-recognizes-arrecognizes-armenian-genocide-over-objections-trump-and-turkish-government/4410046002/

The connection to the Internet Governance field is the following.

During one of EuroDIGs there was an interesting Workshop dedicated to the
topic of Freedom of Expression FoE: WS5: Freedom of Expression and hate
speech – the dilemma of reconciling FoE with combating racism. (*Freedom of
Expression (FoE) is part of the universal and fundamental rights (Article
19 UDHR and Article 10 ECHR) and is considered as substantial – like the
right to Access – in the information age as well).

Though we cannot access that Workshop now, it is password protected, but I
remember well, that one of the conclusions of that WS5 - Sorina Teleanu was
the author of that Report - was that the Armenian Genocide will never be
recognized*. *

So the News is worth mentioning, as proving the opposite.

I also join my voice to you in expressing gratitude to the Election
Committee for their work, patience and re-starting the process once again.

Thank you and best regards!

Best regards,

Narine Khachatryan

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 2:21 PM Kati Gevorgyan via seedig <
seedig at lists.rnids.rs> wrote:

> Dear Barbara and all,
>
> Hope I can share my thoughts with you.J
>
> As a SEEDIG community member, I was following the thread of the emails
> regarding the election's results and doubts that were announced by several
> members about election processes transparency. I also took part in the
> voting process and have offered two nominations. As well as I am involved
> in the SEEsummary Editorial team.
> I just would like to express my gratitude to the Election Committee for
> their work and patience. As well as I would like to emphasize that I was
> really surprised that there could be any suspicious opinions in terms of
> transparency. I did my best to look through all the details of ToR to be
> well informed and couldn't find any violations.
>
> I had a chance and a great honor to know and met members of Executive
> committee: Sasho Dimitrijoski and Su Sonia Herring I met and had a
> conversation in Georgia on Eurodig and in Barcelona, Canada on ICANN
> meetings. As an ISOCAM and ISOC Armenian Chapter member  I'm always in
> touch with Liana Galstyan and cooperate during IGFs and other forums.
> I'm definitely sure they all are taking care of SEEDIG good reputation.
>
> And the main thing I would like to say is my attitude to the work that
> Sorina Teleanu, Chair Executive committee does for all community. I see how
> much effort she put to establish and grow SEEDIG, so, she could never even
> think to violate any point of ToR. She takes care of the rights of all
> SEEDIG community so far and it is valuable. I understand it is teamwork,
> but the leader determines a lot and of course, I don't want to offend
> anyone.
> I hope very much that the final conclusion regarding elections will be
> soon and all the new members will help SEEDIG grow faster and I'm as a
> community member always ready to input my efforts.
>
> Thank you for your time.
> ᐧ
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 12:30 AM Barbara Povse <barbara.povse at arnes.si>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear SEEDIG Community members,
>>
>> on behalf of the Election Committee I'd like to inform you, that
>> motivated objection has been filed with the proposal for two new Executive
>> Committtee members, according to Art. 6.32 a. - ToR.
>>
>> Election Committee will prepare a response to this objection and send it
>> to the compliant and to the members list.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Barbara
>>
>> On 26. 11. 2019 22:56, Barbara Povse wrote:
>>
>> Dear SEEDIG Community members,
>>
>> The Election Committee is pleased to announce the election results of the partial election for SEEDIG Executive Committee and the proposal for two new members of the SEEDIG Executive Committee.
>> *I Election results*:
>>
>> Total Ballots Cast (including duplicates): 73
>> Ballots Counted (excluding duplicates): 56
>> Voters Who Haven't Voted: 15
>>
>> Votes received (order as in the ballot):
>> 1: 9 votes  Mikhail Anisimov, Technical community, Russia
>> 2: 17 votes Marina Bzovii, Private sector, Moldova
>> 3: 16 votes Sergo Karakozov, Private sector, Georgia
>> 4: 18 votes Fotjon Kosta, Civil society, Albania
>> 5: 43 votes Olga Kyryliuk, Civil society, Ukraine
>>
>> *II Proposal for two new Executive Committee members (order by the numbers of votes received):
>> *
>> 1. Olga Kyryliuk, Civil society, Ukraine
>> 2. Marina Bzovii, Private sector, Moldova
>> *Rationale*
>> In compliance with section F  Art. 6.29 - 6.33 of the SEEDIG Executive Committee Terms of Reference (ToR, http://seedig.net/terms-of-reference-tor/), the Election Committee announces the election results and the proposal for the composition of the new SEEDIG Executive Committee.
>> According  to Art 6.30, the candidates receiving most votes during the voting process shall become members of the executive committee, provided that the diversity criteria mentioned in Art. 3.2 are met.
>> By analyzing the results of the partial elections and taking in account also the remaining three members of the Executive Committee:
>>
>> 1. Sorina Teleanu, Civil Society, Romania
>> 2. Lianna Galstyan, Technical Comunity, Armenia
>> 3. Dušan Caf, Private Sector, Slovenia,
>>
>> the election committee concluded that with the two candidates as named above the requested diversity criteria and the conditions as per art. 6.31  a. to d. are met cumulatively.
>> *Instruction on legal remedy :*
>> According to art 6.32. a. - ToR ,  a. Voting members of the SEEDIG community may file written motivated objections to the proposal within seven (7) days from the date when the proposal is announced. Objections may only be raised on procedural grounds and concern the fulfilment of the conditions provided in Art. 6.31. If no objection is filed within this deadline the election committee shall announce the final election results. The deadline for the motivated objections is 2 December, 23:59.
>>
>> We would like to thank once again all the candidates and all the community members who took part in these elections.
>>
>> Sincerely ,
>> Kristina, Oliana and Barbara as the Election Committee
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Katarina
>

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   *Narine Khachatryan* | Executive Director
      *STEM Society|**Safer Internet Armenia*

      Yerevan, Armenia

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