Dear Rafik,

I really appreciate your commitment and your support .
Wish you all the best .

Kind Regards,
Shabnam

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Benjamin Akinmoyeje <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

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