Hello, it seems that I missed to put an additional applicant name in the list below and I apologise for that, the risk of copy-paste lists from spreadsheets :) please also welcome : "Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities" Glenn McKnight Canada Best Regards, Rafik ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rafik Dammak <[log in to unmask]> Date: 2014/1/3 Subject: Welcoming new members to Non-commercial Stakeholder Group To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Hello Everybody. I am glad to send my first email in 2014 to the NCSG list by introducing our new organizational and individual members who were approved by the NCSG EC and welcome them in our group. As proof of diversity, those applicants are from Africa, APAC, Europe, Latin America, North America They were successfully added to this mailing list and so able to read and follow the discussion here. I am happy as NCSG chair, to support new and existing members in order to let them be fully involved and participate in our policy discussion and for that I am ready to respond to your questions with the help of other experienced members and officers. A good resolution in 2014 should be to be more active within NCSG. while most discussion happen here, there are several information in our wikispace which is updated regularly, please check here : https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-Wiki+Home . In particular if you want some info on how to participate in working groups and NCSG , please follow the announcement shared here and be in touch with the Policy committee chair and me . Also please check those links too: https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Guide+to+getting+started+in+NCSG https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Getting+Involved+in+Working+Groups Finally, please welcome warmly: Paula Cristiane Teixeira Brazil Siva Rama Krishna Tummalapalli India Serge K. Keller Switzerland Jacob Hurst United States Isoc Ecuador Carlos Vera Ecuador D.P.P. Eranga Samararathna Sri Lanka Sonigitu Ekpe Nigeria Marília Maciel Brazil Godfred Ahuma Ghana Roxana Radu Switzerland Ellen Strickland New Zealand Joana Varon Ferraz Brasil Hassan Zaheer Pakistan Swathanthra Malayalam Computing Anivar A Aravind India Internet Society (ISOC) Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter Jahangir Hossain Bangladesh Chris Dillon United Kingdom Best Regards, Rafik Dammak ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regarding the mailing list: Here is some important information about your new subscription, which we recommend that you preserve for future reference. 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