Congrats Rafik,
I appreciate you and your leadership. Wishing you amazing time as you move
on to other things.

Benjamin

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Patricia Gnilane Senghor <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
>>
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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
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>