[seedig] Pettition according to ToR, Art 7.

[Maša Drofenik]

I support this petition.

Best,

Maša

On 16. 12. 2019 12:30, Dušan Stojičević wrote:
>
> 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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