Welcome all. Best regards. Huthaifa Albustanji On Monday, October 3, 2016 4:03 PM, Olévié Kouami <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Welcome on board. Warm regards -Olévié- Le 3 oct. 2016 12:03, "Anriette Esterhuysen" <[log in to unmask]> a écrit : Welcome all.. and great to see some EUROSSIG Alumni on the list and organisations from Africa! Anriette Esterhuysen On 01/10/2016 11:07, Felix Iziomoh wrote: > Thank you all, the International Centre for Leadership Development > Nigeria is glad to be part of this network. > Regards > Felix Iziomoh > > On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Wisdom Donkor <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > Congratulations to all new members. > > > On Saturday, October 1, 2016, Tapani Tarvainen > <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask] info>> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am happy to welcome in the NCSG list our new members who were > approved by the NCSG EC. > > They were successfully added to this mailing list and should > able to read > this welcome message and follow the discussions from now on. > > As NCSG Chair I'm here to support new and existing members in > order to > help them be fully involved and participate in our policy > discussion. > So, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. > > There are many opportunities to learn about policy development: > NCSG's monthly policy call, the quarterly GNSO Working Group > newcomers > Webinar, and many other calls, mailing lists and web resources. > > You can see currently open public comment periods at > https://www.icann.org/public- comments#open-public > <https://www.icann.org/public- comments#open-public> and latest > comments > from NCSG at https://community.icann.org/x/ pCTRAg > <https://community.icann.org/ x/pCTRAg> . > You can also check the recordings of NCSG confcalls > https://community.icann.org/x/ Ah7xAg > <https://community.icann.org/ x/Ah7xAg> . > > While a lot discussion takes place on this list, there is lots > of stuff > in our wikispace which is updated regularly, please take a look at > <https://community.icann.org/ display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG- Wiki+Home > <https://community.icann.org/ display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG- Wiki+Home> > or > more easy to remember ncsg.is <http://ncsg.is>. 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