I agree that this proposal is useful for the exercise of trying to come up
with a well rounded list.  However, I think we should not be rigid about
it in our submissions to Mr. Kummer.  If it happens to be that (for
example) our top two technical people are from Latin America and our top
two policy people are from Europe, then they are who we should recommend.

I also don't think we need a 50/50 mix of tech and policy people.  Maybe a
30/70 split favoring the policy people is a better mix for accomplishing
our goals.

Robin


> Thanks for the thoughtful comments. My replies below
>
>>>> karen banks <[log in to unmask]> 08/22/04 06:59AM >>>
>>i doubt very much whether meryem would consider herself to
>>be foward as an african representative (and i think we should
>>check before submitting)
>
> I have sent her a note. No reply as yet. I know very little about
> her and made the suggestion based on others' suggestions.
>
>>also, i'm afraid we have no arab state representation..
>>nor representation from sub-saharan africa, the pacific,
>>etc etc..
>
> The list is not complete. If you know people who fit those bills,
> please put them forward.
>
>>i just don't think regional representation is going to work,
>>based on geo-political criteria [snip]
>>do we need to segment the names so much? it seems to rather
>>highlight gaps and anomalies overshadowing the qualities of the
>>people themselves..
>
> This is an important comment. You are right, in some ways
> it highlights the gaps, and in some ways, that does indeed detract
> from the qualities of the individual names. On the other hand, that
> is not all bad, it was partly the motivation for proposing it. If we
> did just submit 10 or so names it is almost certain that most of them
> would be from Europe and North America, where we are more
> networked and there is a greater wealth of transnationally active
> NGOs to draw on. This method forces nominees from
> those "expertise and activist-rich" areas to be subjected to the
> same "scarcity of slots" as all other regions.
>
>>why not just submit 10-12 names with a
>>preamble articlating the motivation for proposing these people..
>
> We may have to revert to that. Do you agree, however, that
> as a first pass, this template sets a worthy goal? That we should
> try to fill all those slots with at least one name?
>
> --MM
>