Serge My understanding of board responsibility is that it's collective. The only place/time I see where individual board members are held accountable is during AGMs where members/shareholders vote to retain or replace board members.
It's possible that there is a better way of evaluating individual board members but haven't come across one yet..:-) Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim Blog: www.alyhussein.com "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad > On 22 Dec 2015, at 8:31 PM, serge ilunga <serge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 Ali , > Mission (Goal) and Values are the key drivers of any organization. > In the case of AfriNIC, the BOD is to put in place a strategic plan. > This responsability being shared by the whole board, what can be the metric > to evaluate BOD members performance. > Even the metrics are set, how can we evaluate the performance of a single BOD > member while their terms don't start at the same time? > > > Kind Regards. > >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Ali Hussein <a...@hussein.me.ke> wrote: >> Hi All >> >> I have just recently joined the list and have been following the discussions >> on the Afrinic Board with interest. Whilst I believe it's too early for me >> to provide an opinion I have one contribution to make. >> >> Any Board has the fiduciary responsibility to drive the organization's goals >> as stipulated by its members /shareholders through its Memorandum and >> Articles which usually are broken down by period Strategic Plans. I believe >> Boards should ultimately be judged by whether an organisation is >> meeting/exceeding its mandate through the implementation of the above. >> >> Do we have in place such reviews? And how are they structured? Are they >> public documents we can access? >> >> Ali Hussein >> Principal >> Hussein & Associates >> +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375 >> >> Twitter: @AliHKassim >> Skype: abu-jomo >> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim >> Blog: www.alyhussein.com >> >> "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what >> no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On 22 Dec 2015, at 10:47 AM, Mark Elkins <m...@posix.co.za> wrote: >>> >>> The Board was put there by AFRINIC Members in good standing. >>> Ergo, AFRINIC Members suck at choosing Board Members. >>> >>> ---- >>> >>> There is a reason why a Term only lasts three years... it allows the >>> Membership to correct their errors. >>> >>> I personally think the Board does not suck and is actually pretty good. >>> >>>> On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 22:15 +0000, Keshwarsingh Nadan wrote: >>>> the board sucks >>>> ________________________________________ >>>> From: Owen DeLong [o...@delong.com] >>>> Sent: 22 December 2015 1:50 >>>> To: General Discussions of AFRINIC >>>> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] How to mesure performance of afrinic board >>>> >>>> As a general rule, the only check and balance on a board is the voting >>>> members who can >>>> choose to change out the board and the board itself who can (usually) >>>> remove a member >>>> if it is necessary. >>>> >>>> The method for measuring the effectiveness of the board is generally up to >>>> each voter >>>> to determine for his/her self and I don’t see any reason this should be >>>> different for AfriNIC. >>>> >>>> I think the members of AfriNIC are perfectly capable of electing the board >>>> and that >>>> there is no reason we should dictate to them what criteria they should >>>> consider when >>>> making their votes. >>>> >>>> Owen >>>> >>>>> On Dec 20, 2015, at 05:14 , Chevalier du Borg <virtual.b...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> i have been thinking about this for a while. there's a triangle of >>>>> check and balance that make this system work >>>>> >>>>> - board check and balance ceo (and staff?) >>>>> >>>>> who does check and balance on board? members only? or the community at >>>>> large? >>>>> I also like to know, what are the thing used to measure whether a >>>>> board being effective? should we clarifie this mesures so that its >>>>> self-evidence to everyone when board is doing good job or not? should >>>>> we add that check and balance formally to responsabilite of governance >>>>> committee? i belief good performance and good governance go hand in >>>>> hand. >>>>> >>>>> thoughts? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Borg le Chevalier >>>>> ___________________________________ >>>>> "Common sense is what tells us the world is flat" >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Community-Discuss mailing list >>>>> Community-Discuss@afrinic.net >>>>> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Community-Discuss mailing list >>>> Community-Discuss@afrinic.net >>>> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Community-Discuss mailing list >>>> Community-Discuss@afrinic.net >>>> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss >>> >>> -- >>> Mark James ELKINS - Posix Systems - (South) Africa >>> m...@posix.co.za Tel: +27.128070590 Cell: +27.826010496 >>> For fast, reliable, low cost Internet in ZA: https://ftth.posix.co.za >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Community-Discuss mailing list >>> Community-Discuss@afrinic.net >>> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Community-Discuss mailing list >> Community-Discuss@afrinic.net >> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss > > > > -- > Serge ILUNGA KABWIKA > Skype: sergekbk > Cell: +243814443160 > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > Community-Discuss@afrinic.net > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
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