Dear NCUC Friends and Colleagues: Let me first thank you for the warm reception and true feeling dedicated to the members of the NCUC constituency. We feel very welcomed and we will be very much engaged in the process of NCUC policies content development and NGSG agenda within ICANN multistakeholder model. My first ICANN 53 fellowship experience in B.A was a great opportunity to bring together, different recommendations, suggestions and new ideas to the diverse institutions and organizations that work on improving the role of NCSG particularly within the IG Community in the Arab world as a means to assess the strengths and weaknesses of ICANN multistakeholder model. I realize that this is a substantial time commitment from my part. The task ahead of me is huge. But I’m confident that we can work productively and achieve the desired outcome in the time allotted. Most importantly, I believe that this undertaking will result in a better grasp of where we are in the discussion to charter the course for the future in terms the development of policy analysis within NCUC framework, working groups and engagement programs. I’m positive that my background in policy analyst with IGMENA will be with great added value for the work of NCSG on developing advocacy and policies on Internet governance issues in the arable world. Also, I want to learn from NCUC expertise in policy development on issues related to running new TLDs. I want to enhance the debate over Internet governance issues related to ICANN content layer particularly on online freedom of expression advocacy, data protection, privacy and censorship and surveillance. I recommend taking a look on the MENA region internet governance program (IGMENA) http://igmena.org/. We contribute in bringing civil society voices together to advocate for better policies and to expand the Arab region audience awareness in this field. The strategy will be to focus on current issues and emerging threats to digital rights and manage the content produced specific to the countries in the MENA region. This can be with a great added value to the several standing and ad hoc working teams with the NCUC structure that already exist like the cross-community working group. The approach will give me a chance to get the action to get our team re-aligned and focused on that effort. Can you give the new members the next step to tackle any roadblocks that could incentivize more work in the NCUC constituency and the policy writing process. Our region needs to have a sense of the priority of action assigned to each one of us to be able to work locally and regionally on the implementation of NCUC Standards mandate at the technical and policy advocacy level. Some sample of my publication: http://igmena.org/meac-sig-2105-english http://igmena.org/Middle-East-Strategy-ICANN-Initiative http://igmena.org/The-Internet-Policy-Analyst-(IPA)-An-Internet-Grassroots-Policy-Project http://igmena.org/Internet-Policy-Analyst-Launch www.thd.tn/index.php Your Sincerely.