Abstract
When we elect the boards of our Internet organisations, how do we decide? For many of us, it is the names we recognise. But being recognisable depends on being able to travel, being free to leave home, already being in the network, and having enough time to decide whether to stand.
This talk doesn’t offer a single fix. Instead it follows the journey from seat to say and asks questions we rarely ask out loud. What would make it easier for someone new to stand? Once people are on a board, are they heard, or simply present? And how do members stay involved between elections, when oversight often rests on a single annual meeting?
Along the way it shares ideas others in the sector have tried. The rest is over to you.
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Speaker
Denesh Bhabuta
Denesh Bhabuta has spent more than 30 years working where people and the Internet meet, not just technically but as communities.
He is known across the Internet infrastructure community for his work at UKNOF, where he spent two decades helping shape it into the central forum for UK network operators, and at DNS-OARC, where he led the global conference programme and community engagement for over a decade. He founded PTNOG, served on the programme committees of LINX and UKNOF, and co-chaired the former RIPE LIR Working Group.
He has seen boards from both sides: as an executive director at UKNOF, LONAP and the UK ENUM Consortium, and as a non-executive director at Nominet. He has also been a trustee of Usurp, an arts and community charity, for over 20 years. Today he consults independently, including with Quad9, and Star London.
He curates the RIPE DEI session series, and believes the most valuable asset any organisation, community or industry has is its people.
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