Hello Everybody.

I am glad to welcome in the NCSG list  our new organisational and individual members who were  approved by the NCSG EC during  ICANN Singapore meeting.  

They were successfully added to this mailing list and so able to read this welcoming and follow the discussions.

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 lot of public comments and important reports to cover, netmundial in Brazil , discussion around the transition of IANA  stewardship process , and much more in the coming weeks. For example you can read out last statement about IANA transition here here: https://community.icann.org/x/_ijRAg 

while most discussion happen here, there are several information in our wikispace which is updated regularly, please check here :

In particular if you want some info on how to participate in working groups and NCSG , please follow the announcements shared here and be in touch with the Policy committee chair and me  . Also please check those   links too:
Recordings and transcripts of latest meetings: https://community.icann.org/x/DIH3 

Also to catch-up with ongoing discussion in the mailing list: https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=NCSG-DISCUSS  

Finally, please welcome warmly:

*Organisations:
Media For Change, Subi Chaturvedi, India

*Individuals:
Beatriz Susana Uitts, USA
Jeremy Malcolm, Malaysia
Raitme Citterio, Venezuela
Sherly Haristya, Singapore
Abdurashid Abdukarimov, Uzbekistan
Sandra Braman, USA
Seun Ojedeji, Nigeria
Lea Kaspar, UK
Philip Adar, Kenya
Wisdom Kwasi Donkor, Ghana
Chirag Gupta, USA

I will send other updates later and please feel free to contact me directly.

Best Regards,

Rafik Dammak

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