Hi everyone,

please find my statement below:


   - *Name, declared region of residence, gender and employment;*

Rafik Dammak
Asia(Tunisian citizen)
Male
Computer engineer

   - *Any conflicts of interest:*

none

   - *Reasons for willingness to take on the tasks of the particular
   position:    *

I am willing to continue volunteering for NCSG as I did before, hoping to
do more and leading during a challenging time of transition and struggle
for more accountability within ICANN .

Concretely, I thought about some goals to reach and already started during
my first term:

   1. Continuing the work in improving the operational aspect for NCSG:
   managing membership more efficiently and in timely manner, improving the
   admin tasks execution and getting the needed support (updated wiki, regular
   calls, organising sessions during ICANN meetings), ensuring the NCSG
   membership is up to dated about ongoing policies and important transitions
   like for IANA and ICANN accountability, improving the effectiveness of
   current NCSG committees as much as possible.
   2. To continue the fight on the positions we always defended regarding
   the rights of non-commercial users and organizations, and the defense of
   human rights, freedom of expression and privacy with concrete actions to
   let ICANN accountable on its policies and respecting rights. I am merely
   collaborating here with other members who volunteered to advocate strongly
   for those position and I support them as chair such as  the organization of
   privacy session in London.
   3. To continue the work on the engagement of our existing  and new
   membership. Improving the the community management and helping new members
   to participate in ICANN processes and NCSG activities.  Supporting the
   learning and capacity building to get members involved in working groups
   and making statements
   4. Ensuring that NCSG liaise with other groups in the different SOs/AC
   within ICANN and strengthening its position. cooperating with them for more
   common positions such as the GNSO statement about accountability during
   London ICANN meeting


 •  *Qualifications for the position:*
I served NCSG interests in several roles and get different perspectives
about the needs of our SG  and constituencies within the organisation and
the interactions/relations with other groups . I was also chair for 1 year
and definitely I learned a lot ：I did a self-criticism of what I did , what
I didn't do or failed to do. I hope to get the opportunity to improve that.


   1. I participated in several working groups within ICANN on behalf of
   NCSG. I was co-chair of  new applicant support working group , a cross
   working group between GNSO and ALAC aimed to give support for new gTLD
   applicants from developing countries, and lately co-facilitating  the
   cross-community working group on Internet Governance to chartered soon.
   2. I was GNSO councilor for 3 years representing NCSG and non-commercial
   interests and coordinating with other members to defend several positions
   there , from there I learned about GNSO policies, processes and procedures
   in addition to the dynamic of the groups we have to work with.
   3. I was also at the NCSG Executive committee
   4. I represented NCUC in the nomcom


Outside ICANN, I am also serving in other space in steering committees at
1net , Internet Rights and Principles coalition, OECD CSISAC.

 • *Statement of availability for the time the position requires:*
Yes, I am available and already committing as current chair.

 • *The nominee’s statement may also include any other information that the
candidate believes is relevant: *
I learned a lot with my involvement within NCSG: about our challenges as
group based in solely work of volunteers, the new issues coming with
transitions such IANA which may change ICANN nature and influence its
already weak accountability, strengthening NCSG structurally, continuation
of  the efforts started by predecessors and building the foundation for
successors to ensure NCSG sustainability as organization, coordinating with
the policy committee and our councillors to advance NCSG policy positions.
I am looking to continue serve NCSG to which I owe a lot .

Best Regards,

Rafik