On Thu, June 7, 2007 17:30, Angela wrote:
On 6/7/07, Ilario Valdelli valdelli@gmail.com wrote:
1.Any member of the jury must NOT be involved in any way with the bidding town. If I am Chinese or I have Chinese origin (for example) I cannot be part of the jury if a Chinese town is candidate.
This isn't practical. There would be very few people who are able to be involved if everyone from 20 or so countries that submit bids can not be on the jury. The Board members are usually on the jury, so you're implying that the US, France, the Netherlands, and Germany can not even submit bids?
Sorry Angela, but that isn't what Ilario was saying. He was stating the standard practice for many bodies that make similar decisions that an individual who is (or could reasonably be considered as) connected to a given bid cannot take an active part on the decision-making *regarding that given bid* - ie not that they can't be involved at all, just with the bids from their own country/ies. This sounds, to me, as a reasonable way to reduce the perceived bias that could take place (not, may I clearly state) that I believe it has in the past.
Alison Wheeler