I join everyone else to thank you Rafik for your leadership. You have been an inspiration to me and many others who joined NCSG. Sincerely, Walid ------ Walid Al-Saqaf, PhD Postdoc, Department of Media Studies Stockholm University - Sweden On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Rafik Dammak <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am sending this last email as NCSG chair , since my term ends with the > last day of Dublin meeting. Tapani is officially the NCSG chair after the > ICANN board session this afternoon, I wish him good luck and keen to offer > him my support for the coming months. > > I wanted to thank all NCSG members who trusted me for 2 years, also the > NCSG officers. I really enjoyed serving in such role and hoped to do more > things. I could do some things, not succeeding on others and some that I > couldn't do yet. > I trust Tapani will do more and being successful to reach the goals he set, > following his strategy and get inputs. He needs all our support and help for > the challenges ahead. > > My focus was to improve the operational side of NCSG like membership > management, being able to influence more policy by regular submitting public > comment, and more important being able to engage our members and let them > more involved in policy making process, to communicate and collaborate with > other groups and communicate better about NCSG activities. That was built > in what my predecessors did and I am passing this now to the new chair. I > will also make a self-evaluation and self-criticism in timely manner. I did > the hand-over with Taapni and everything should be ok. You will also receive > details of recordings of NCSG sessions in Dublin meeting and there will be > follow-up. > > of course, I will continue my involvement and will be happy to support our > members on my personal capacity and respond to your questions. > > Best Regards, > > Rafik Dammak > > former NCSG chair >