I join everyone else to thank you Rafik for your leadership. You have
been an inspiration to me and many others who joined NCSG.

Sincerely,

Walid

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Walid Al-Saqaf, PhD
Postdoc, Department of Media Studies
Stockholm University - Sweden


On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Rafik Dammak <[log in to unmask]> 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
>