Dear Rafik,

Thanks a lot for your commitment and support.
Wishing you all the best in your future endeavours!

Bye and see you soon.

Patricia


On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 4:15 PM, [log in to unmask] <
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> Dear Rafik.
>
> Thank.you very much for.your very good wok as chair of Nscg over two past
> year.
>
> Hago Dafalla
>
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> ------------------------------
> * From: * Amr Elsadr <[log in to unmask]>;
> * To: * <[log in to unmask]>;
> * Subject: * Re: [NCSG-Discuss] my last day as NCSG chair
> * Sent: * Thu, Oct 22, 2015 9:40:12 AM
>
> Rafik,
>
> I can’t thank you enough for the unwavering dedication you’ve shown as the
> NCSG chair over the past two years. I hope you are not underestimating the
> part you’ve played in strengthening the influence of civil society in gTLD
> policy development over the past two years. We’ve come a long way, and I
> don’t know how we could have achieved this without you. This IMO is the
> primary purpose of the NCSG.
>
> Thank you so much for your two years of service, and I look forward to
> continuing to work with you in the future.
>
> My eternal gratitude.
>
> Amr
>
> > On Oct 22, 2015, at 9:03 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
> >
> >
>