On Thu, June 7, 2007 17:30, Angela wrote:
On 6/7/07, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli(a)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