Rafik,

All the best with your post-Chair ICANN life. I want to thank you.
I have moved slowly out of rank novice to moderate ex-novice
during your NCSG leadership regime and have learned a lot.

Sam

/On 2015-10-22 9:03 AM, Rafik Dammak wrote://
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>
> /Hi everyone,/
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> //
>
> /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. /
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> //
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> /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./
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> //
>
> /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./
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> //
>
> /of course, I will continue my involvement and will be happy to 
>  support our members on my personal capacity and respond to your 
> questions. /
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> //
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> /Best Regards,/
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> //
>
> /Rafik Dammak/
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> //
>
> /former NCSG chair//
> /
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