Now, all together ...SING - "For he's a jolly good fellow...." !

Ditto ditto ditto to all the comments above...You did a GREAT job Rafik!
Thank you!

3 cheers -- HIP HIP...HOORAY! (x 3)

Karel DOUGLAS

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Dwi Elfrida Martina <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Thank you Rafik, I wish all the best for your work for Internet policies.
> My apologies that I could not involve so much in NCSG during your
> leadership time, but I do like your presentation in fellowship meeting,  I
> got a glance of decreasing of negative views towards getting government/GAC
> from you, which was too much hate on GAC from NCSG before (which I could
> not agree,  if we do understand what government has to deal with). Once
> again,  thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dwi
> On Oct 22, 2015 9:05 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
>>
>>