As a mere sporadic bystander from afar the last several years, I can say
that even from the sidelines the substantial growth in membership and
systematic engagement has been impressive to behold, passing through my
email inbox.

These are important times, with the pending transition of ICANN authority
and revisiting of processes, and you have kept NCSG thriving with purpose
and influence.  I trust Tapani will take the baton and run hard with it
the next leg.

Well done,

Dan



On Thu, October 22, 2015 1:03 am, Rafik Dammak wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am sending this last email as NCSG chair , since my term ends with the
> last day of Dublin meeting. Tapani is officially the NCSG chair after the
> ICANN board session this afternoon, I wish him good luck and keen to offer
> him my support for the coming months.
>
> I wanted to thank all NCSG members who trusted me for  2 years, also the
> NCSG officers. I really enjoyed serving in such role and hoped to do more
> things. I could do some things, not succeeding on others and some that I
> couldn't do yet.
> I trust Tapani will do more and being successful to reach the goals he
> set,
> following his strategy and get inputs. He needs all our support and help
> for the challenges ahead.
>
> My focus was to improve the operational side of NCSG like membership
> management, being able to influence more policy by regular submitting
> public comment, and more important being able to engage our members and
> let
> them more involved in policy making process, to communicate and
> collaborate
> with other groups and communicate better about NCSG activities.  That was
> built in what my predecessors did and I am passing this now to the new
> chair. I will also make a self-evaluation and self-criticism in timely
> manner.  I did the hand-over with Taapni and everything should be ok. You
> will also receive details of recordings of NCSG sessions in Dublin meeting
> and there will be follow-up.
>
> of course, I will continue my involvement and will be happy to  support
> our
> members on my personal capacity and respond to your questions.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Rafik Dammak
>
> former NCSG chair
>