Dear All, Good day , Many thanks dear Rafik , Congratulations to new members specially to my dear friend Ms Hanane Boujemi Welcome to NCSG family . Have a nice weekend ! Best Regards, Shabnam Shafiei On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Wisdom Donkor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Congratulations to all new members. > Welcome onboard. > > > > On Sunday, February 22, 2015, Rafik Dammak <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hello Everybody. > > > > I am glad to welcome in the NCSG list our new organizational and > individual members who were approved by the NCSG EC this month. > > 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. I had mail exchange and even skype calls > for those who asked, so please feel free to contact me if you want more > information or asking for clarifications. > > There are opportunities to learn about policy development : with the > quarterly GNSO Working Group newcomers Webinar, for which the schedule will > be shared in due time. we are also planning a NCSG webinars to discuss or > introduce a specific topic, the next will be about IANA stewardship > transition update. > > A lot of public comments and important reports to cover (priority-wise) > https://www.icann.org/public-comments#open-public and much more in the > coming weeks. For example you can read out lastest comments from NCSG here > https://community.icann.org/x/pCTRAg . you can also check the recordings > of NCSG sessions during Singapore meeting here > https://community.icann.org/x/sB3xAg > > We are going to have our regular monthly confcall in March and it is > open to all members. That is a good opportunity to to interact with NCSG > officers and other members. You will receive the confcall details in near > future. > > Some information, you should keep somewhere: > > > > While a lot 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 or > more easy to remember https://ncsg.is . Navigating there will give > flavor of what we did and are doing. > > > > 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: > > > > Some tips to get involved > https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/How+To+Get+Involved > > List of working groups and members involved there > https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Getting+Involved+in+Working+Groups > > > Policy comments and statements here: > https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Policy+Development > > Recordings and transcripts of latest meetings: > https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Meetings+Record > > There is a one-stop page to find all information about GNSO and also > about GNSO activities during ICANN meeting. > > > > Also to catch-up with ongoing discussion in the mailing list archive : > https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=NCSG-DISCUSS > > Also you can find the NCSG calendar here: > https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG+Events+Calendar > > Finally, don't feel overwhelmed by ICANN acronyms, you will find most of > them in this glossary > https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/glossary-2014-02-03-en > > > > Please welcome warmly: > > *Organisations: > > > > ISOC-Yemen, Ahmed Almarwani, Yemen > > Internet Society Nepal, Bikram Shrestha, Nepal > > gedaref digital city org, Ahmed Mahmoud Eisa, Sudan > > J Initiative (JI), Awo Aidam Amenyah, Ghana > > > > *Individuals: > > > > Zakir Syed, Pakistan > > Mikhail Komarov, Russia > > David Post, United States > > Hanane Boujemi, Netherlands > > Gigi Johnson, United States > > Andrew Donnellan, Australia > > Michael R. 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