[seedig] Pettition according to ToR, Art 7.

Mon Dec 16 15:27:53 CET 2019

 I support the petition!

Best,
Sabajete

On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 15:20, Tetiana Kyryliuk via seedig <
seedig at lists.rnids.rs> wrote:

> I support the petition!
>
> The reasons are clear and raise no doubts.
>
>
> Best,
> Tetiana Kyryliuk
>
> пн, 16 дек. 2019 г. в 13:31, Dušan Stojičević <dusan at dukes.in.rs>:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> It’s always nice to see peaceful, politically correct mailings and calls
>> for calming down, I tend to agree with them all by default, but the problem
>> will not fly away itself, if we don’t tackle the essence of the issues that
>> you wrote about. It is seen in many initiatives with multistakeholder
>> roots, it’s not first time that I am seeing this in IG surroundings – move
>> the problems under the carpet until the carpet reach the ceilings…
>>
>> If some people like to think that my mailings are harsh and I am
>> attacking people – so be it, I can easily step down as list admin and leave
>> this community, as I already stepped down from any single role that I had
>> in this initiative so far (exe com member, web admin, FB admin etc) leaving
>> room for new fresh people. As someone who was contributing to this
>> initiative from the very beginning, the growth of initiative should not
>> depend on me. All those positions that I had were voluntary positions, and
>> I don’t have any personal benefit out of those roles, except work. And I am
>> not keen to support the initiative where people likes to be in a position,
>> plays as “wannabe politicians” and at the same time, they don’t show
>> intention to work. That’s not what we was trying to build. Above that, to
>> use that position to criticize someone else’s work – this right is not
>> earned just by position. Therefore, let see what is hidden under the carpet
>> – let start with accountability of people in positions. This is part of
>> democratic process, good practice, transparency and good governance, isn’t
>> it?
>>
>>
>>
>> According to ToR Art 7., and as a voting member, I am initiating a
>> petition for removing individual member Dusan Caf from executive committee.
>>
>>
>>
>> Reasons:
>>
>> 1.      According to Art 4.1 of ToR, item d.
>>
>> As organizer and official representative of host at Ljubljana meeting
>> (his organization was paying the bills for meeting, known fact), and active
>> member of executive committee, he didn’t provide the financial report for
>> more than a year. On the website, this report was seen after SEEDIG meeting
>> in Bucharest, somewhere in 3Q this year (date of publishing is somewhere in
>> late July 2019.).
>>
>> Without any doubts, harm is done to the SEEDIG. For example, SEEDIG could
>> have benefited from an UN grant (we heard about that in Bucharest); I hear
>> that this did not happen and that the delayed publication of the report
>> contributed to this.
>>
>> Clearly, by delaying the financial reporting for so long, there can be
>> raised fair suspicion and inquiry on how the host was handling the money.
>> But, I still want to believe that laziness is the reason, nothing else.
>>
>> 2.      According to Art 4.1 of ToR, item g and h
>>
>> Instead of consulting the community about all significant matters, this
>> member of executive committee wrote a personal blog, raising concerns
>> around SEEDIG in public. More than that, he was writing personal emails to
>> the sponsors, without knowledge of community or, to the best of my
>> knowledge, rest of executive committee. The emails was forwarded to me by
>> some sponsors, with whom I have very active business. Blog can be found
>> here
>> https://blog.caf.si/2019/11/reflections-on-my-two-years-in-seedig.html.
>>
>> If you are surprised with this blog from November, it’s exactly what is
>> regulated by those items g and h in ToR – you should not be, but you are.
>> Also you can easily see that, roughly, half of this blog is not true (there
>> are mailings in the archive that proves he wrongly explained certain
>> moments in SEEDIG history, which he was not taking part) and half of the
>> blog are alleged issues and problems which he NEEDED to share with
>> community and colleagues in exe com. This way, without knowledge of entire
>> community, he criticizes many thing, expressing his opinion based on mostly
>> wrong facts, and he created fake news, the worst kind – mix of “a little
>> bit of truth” and “a little bit of fake” makes the “perfect deal”. More on
>> that, the blog was shared on social networks by some of the sponsors with a
>> lot of question marks about the future of SEEDIG, and by that, he was
>> ruining hardly built trust between sponsors and SEEDIG as initiative.
>>
>> I don’t know how it went with members of exe com or other members of
>> SEEDIG, but I was spending a lot of my time to answer to some of the
>> sponsors, connected with them in my line of business, that truth is not
>> written in that blog.
>>
>> 3.      According to Art 4.1 of ToR, item h
>>
>> Recent meddling in election process, by asking for a report which is not
>> regulated by ToR, and to the best of my knowledge, not in any decision of
>> exe com, through the mail sent to the list: there is a concern that he was
>> trying to intimidate the chair and all members of election committee. At
>> least, by asking that, he was putting pressure to the election committee
>> and all members, obviously not happy with the preliminary results,
>> jeopardizing the whole election process and undermining the work of
>> election committee. This is a very bad and dangerous practice shown from
>> this exe com member, and he should be removed just for that.
>>
>> 4.      According to Art 4.2 of ToR
>>
>> It’s really questionable if this member of executive was fulfilling
>> obligation of 5-6 working hours per week: If the regular obligations was
>> not finished on time, as described in the reason under point 1., he
>> obviously was not fulfilling this obligation also.
>>
>> Conclusion – according to ToR, he is not fit to serve as exe com member,
>> obviously he is not fit to work in a team and what is worse, he is putting
>> the whole SEEDIG initiative in danger by his “personally initiated”
>> (in)activities. It will be a big danger if he stays one more year of his
>> mandate as a member.
>>
>>
>>
>> In line with Art 7.3 in the ToR, I ask and invite community members to
>> back up this petition - it needs 10% of the total number of members of this
>> list to trigger a vote on removing Dusan Caf from the exe com. If you are
>> concern about SEEDIG, this is a concrete way to express your concerns and
>> clean up what is hidden under the carpet.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dusan Stojicevic
>>
>>
>>
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