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] < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Rafik. > > Thank.you very much for.your very good wok as chair of Nscg over two past > year. > > Hago Dafalla > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android> > > ------------------------------ > * 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 > > > > >