[IRP] IRP-DC elections results

[Biel Company Perez]

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Dear IRP-DC members,

I am pleased to
announce that the following candidates have been elected for the IRP-DC
Steering Committee:

Academy (44 participants):Carlos Alfonso
      Pereira de Souza (25 votes)Rafik Dammak (18 votes)Robert Bodle (18 votes)Marianne Franklin (18 votes)Civil Society (44 participants)Anja Kovacs (29 votes)Robert Guerra (21 votes)Graciela Selaiman (20 votes)Governmental institutions (38 participants)Lee Hibbard (28 votes)Andrea Becalli (22 votes)Johan Hallenborg (14 votes)Private Sector (44 participants)Lisa Horner (37 votes)Max Senges (32 votes)Shaila Rao Mistry (16 votes)Olivier JM Cr?pin-Leblond (16 votes)

As you see, the election has ended in a tie among
several members within the academic and private sectors. Although this situation
is not regulated in the procedures for this electoral process, such regulations
do say that the Steering Committee may be ?no more than 15? members. A simple criterion
that is compatible with this limitation and that does not make it necessary to organize
a second electoral round is to appoint the 3 most voted candidates within each
stakeholder group, but allowing more than 3 appointments per stakeholder group
if there are several candidates in tie. The 14 member Steering Committee above
results from applying this criterion.

As a summarized
election report, one problem for which I am entirely responsible and sincerely
apologize needs to be explained here. One of the
candidates, Heike Jensen, did not appear on the ballot list during the first two days of the voting period. Although she did appear as a candidate and her
profile and electoral program were available in the Google spreadsheet from the
opening of the online ballots, her name wasn?t added to the ballot?s candidate list
until December 4th, as soon as we were
informed of the error. In order to guarantee that this had not deprived the
candidate from any votes and that every IRP-DC member wishing to vote for her had
the possibility to do so, the 23 IRP-DC members who had already voted by the
time the ballot was amended were sent an email giving them the possibility to
modify only one of their votes within the academic sector and only in favor of
Heike Jensen. Two members expressed their wish to modify their votes, but neither
of them could specify with certainty the candidates they had elected, so no
vote modifications were finally made. In view of the final results within the
academic sector, however, such arrangements would not have altered the
composition of the Steering Committee.

I would like to give
special thanks to Prof. Derrick Cogburn, who provided and managed the online
voting system and whose contribution was essential for sorting out problems as
they emerged. Thanks also to Max Senges for his support and counsel during the
process, and to all of you for your participation. Please do not hesitate to
contact me should you be interested in having any further details of the
process. 

Best,

Biel Company P?rez
IRPDC Steering Committee elections officer
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)
Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona. 
Tel.: (+34) 93 673 50 82
bcompanyp at uoc.edu
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