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Please let me add my voice to the choir of thankful voices to Rafik :)

Thanks a lot for your great work, for welcoming Article19 in the NCS
and helping me/us find my/our feet here. I've enjoyed your
North-African passion combined with Japanese precision. You have been
crucial for making the work on the CCWP-HR possible. And I am very
much looking forward to continue to work on that with you.

As Tapani said during the meeting with the board, he has big shoes to
fill, but I am sure he will do a great job.

It's a pleasure working within the framework of the NCSG with so many
capable and knowledgeable people around.

Best,

Niels


On 10/22/2015 11:21 AM, Arsene Tungali wrote:
> Rafik It was a pleasure to have you as our chair for the past
> years. My first icann meeting was LA and you welcomed me, provided
> support when needed. You have been a great chair!
> 
> I wish you all the best for the future and welcome the new chair. I
> trust Trapani will do great ad well.
> 
> Regards from the DRCongo!
> 
> Arsene Tungali, Rudi International
> 
> Sent from Huawei Mobile (excuse typos)
> 
> Anriette Esterhuysen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Rafik
>> 
>> A special thank you to you from me, and also on behalf of
>> everyone in APC. During you term as chair you have helped me to
>> understand the ever-confusing world of ICANN. This is a world
>> that I have seen emerge and grow but which remains hard to grasp
>> for those of us who are not fully immersed in it.
>> 
>> You were always there when I had a question, and you always
>> provided clear and easy to understand answers.
>> 
>> So thanks very, very much.
>> 
>> Tapani, really looking forward to working with you. You have been
>> a voice of calm and reason in the IGF internet rights and
>> principles context and as the discussion about human rights in
>> ICANN intensifies it is a really good for NCSG to have chair with
>> expertise in this area.
>> 
>> Best wishes to you both.
>> 
>> Anriette
>> 
>> 
>> On 22/10/2015 10:44, Milan, Stefania wrote:
>>> Dear Rafik
>>> 
>>> thanks you so much for your energy, dedication and commitment
>>> over these intense years.
>>> 
>>> You did an amazing job, and you will be missed.
>>> 
>>> Stefania
>>> 
>>> 
>>> stefaniamilan.net || @annliffey fingerprint: 7606 4526 3D24
>>> 20B2 C850  EA42 A497 CB70 04B5 A3B
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
*Da:* NCSG-Discuss <[log in to unmask]> per conto di Rafik
>>> Dammak <[log in to unmask]> *Inviato:* giovedì 22 ottobre
>>> 2015 10.03 *A:* [log in to unmask] *Oggetto:* my
>>> last day as NCSG chair
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> -- ----------------------------------------- Anriette
>> Esterhuysen Executive Director Association for Progressive
>> Communications [log in to unmask] www.apc.org IM: ae_apc

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