[IGFmaglist] Proposal for Improving the Evaluation System

[Wisdom Donkor]

+ 1 also to Omar


On Monday, July 4, 2016, Omar Mansoor Ansari <omar.m.ansari at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear all,
> While evaluating the workshop proposals I came across following issues:
> 1. Proposer is not from a developing world, but flagged as a "developing
country."
> 2. Proposer is not a first timer, but flagged as "new proposer."
> 3. As Renata pointed out as well, there was no gender balance in some
panels, yet the proposal was submitted for a MAG review. If this is
mandatory, then it should be sorted out before a proposal is submitted to
MAG for review.  Same goes with diversity in terms of stakeholder and
geography.
> I'd like to propose following solutions for the future:
> If we can improve the system to be able to validate if proposers are
first timer, from a developing country, or if they have submitted their
report for previous workshop or not-- this can be done through linking
databases. Or through having the secretariat check proposals, for these,
first to make sure the information is correct.
> For the gender, stakeholder, geography, we also need the system to be
able to validate entries. Also, if the speaker list on the main proposal
page can display participant name, gender, stockholder group, region etc,
with the bio being displayed as a popup or dropdown when clicked, would
make it convenient for the evaluators to see details. I had to read
individual bios to find out gender, stakeholder groups and other details
for some of the proposals.
> Regards,
> Omar
>
>

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