<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">We can adopt the same approach as ISOC then it may make the difference.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 21, 2018, at 21:27, Remmy Nweke <<a href="mailto:remmyn@GMAIL.COM" class="">remmyn@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Farzaneh<div class="">Thanks for bringing this up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Basically in most organisations where organisation and individuals hold separate vote is where they actually pay for membership with organisation simply having two votes because their membership dues are usually a little higher than that of individuals.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think we can still resolve this, probably for organisation at elections to hold 1 vote and individual 1 vote if there are two different persons or where the organisations have alternate rep, otherwise where the organisation is also the actual contact person, it could be resolved as to have 1 vote.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Above, all, I also think that NCSG Charter needs review after 7 years, may be by next year as I earnestly think lots have changed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IMO</div><div class="">Regards<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">____<div class="">REMMY NWEKE, <font size="1" class="">mNGE</font>, </div><div class="">Lead Strategist/Group Executive Editor, <br class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,0,0)" class="">DigitalSENSE Africa Media</span> <span class="">[<i class="">Multiple-award winning medium</i>]<br class=""></span>(<a href="http://www.digitalsenseafrica.com.ng/businessnews" target="_blank" class="">DigitalSENSE Business News</a>; <a href="http://www.itrealms.com.ng/" target="_blank" class="">ITREALMS</a>, <a href="http://www.naijaagronet.com.ng/" target="_blank" class="">NaijaAgroNet</a>)</div><div class="">Block F1, Shop 133 Moyosore Aboderin Plaza, Bolade Junction, Oshodi-Lagos<br class="">M: 234-8033592762, 8023122558, 8051000475, T: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/ITRealms" target="_blank" class="">@ITRealms<br class=""></a><div class="">Author: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/adecadeofictreportageinnigeria%E2%80%8E" target="_blank" class="">A Decade of ICT Reportage in Nigeria</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><font color="#ff0000" class="">South-South <a href="http://www.digitalsenseafrica.com.ng/" target="_blank" class="">Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum on IG4D & Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable</a></font></b> </div><div class="">(Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State). 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Violators may face court persecution.<br class=""></font><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:23 PM farzaneh badii <<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" class="">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear all, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I have sent the message below to NCSG EC and I think we need to have a discussion about it and make an official decision on this issue. Please chime in:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">At the moment the organizational reps who are individual members of NCSG can participate in the elections as both organizational rep and individual members. Apparently, it has been discussed repeatedly in the past with no decision. Other than they said it is not against the charter.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Not having remembered that it has been discussed but no decision made, I started contacting those who were listed as an individual member as well as organizational rep on the check-in list and asked them to choose whether they want to be individual members or represent their organization, since being both allowed them to vote twice which I think is not acceptable for the integrity of elections. Tapani corrected me and said the issue was discussed but never decided against <span class=""></span><a href="https://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/election-reform/2017-June/000021.html" rel="noreferrer" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.ncsg.is/pipermail/election-reform/2017-June/000021.html</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I personally think it is unfair to allow organizational reps who are individual members to vote twice. This is because organizational reps (usually but not always) have autonomy from their organization to vote as they see appropriate and do not have a mandate as such. If they are also individual members, it provides them with the opportunity to vote twice and I think we need to fix it. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">It might be too late to do this in this election but we need to discuss and make a decision. I have started explaining the rationale to those who are organizational reps as well as individual members and asked them to decide what they want to do for this election voluntarily until we make a decision. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Best</div><br class="m_4484608829792340003gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="m_4484608829792340003gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div></div>
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