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<div>Very happy to see Public Knowledge join us here at NCUC, this is a fantastic group doing amazing work and we should be immensely proud to have them amongst our ranks.</div>
<div>And great to see a fantastic and diverse group of new individuals joining welcome to everyone!</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces@lists.ncuc.org">ncuc-discuss-bounces@lists.ncuc.org</a>> on behalf of William Drake<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Sunday 11 October 2015 at 10:41 a.m.<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>NCUC-discuss<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[NCUC-DISCUSS] Welcome new NCUC members<br>
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<div class="">Since most everyone subscribed to ncuc-discuss is also subscribed to ncsg-discuss, you probably will have seen Rafik’s message earlier today welcoming new NCSG members. The following individuals and organizations also elected to join NCUC and
have now been added to this list, the membership data base, and the web listing <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/about/members/" class="">http://www.ncuc.org/about/members/</a>. So again we are delighted to welcome
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<div class="">Maria Gabriela Gijon<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Argentina<br class="">
Said Zazai<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Afghanistan<br class="">
Rishabh Dara<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>India<br class="">
Elsa Saade<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Lebanon<br class="">
Tatiana Tropina<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Germany<br class="">
Samuel Akinsola<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Botswana<br class="">
Etuate Cocker<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>New Zealand<br class="">
Alagie N Ceesay<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Gambia<br class="">
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<div class="">Greetings to all, great to have you on board. Please feel free to introduce yourself to colleagues here and share any particular interests and activities related to NCUC, ICANN, etc. </div>
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<div class="">I especially want to take note of the addition of Public Knowledge, which is a leading and influential voice for digital rights and public interest issues operating within the Washington DC beltway, and globally. Very happy you’re here.</div>
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<div class="">With these additions, we now have 448 members from 105 countries, including 110 noncommercial organizations and 338 individuals. NCUC has more than doubled in size over the last three years…</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Dublin Meeting</b></div>
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<div class="">You’re joining at an extremely hectic moment as we ramp up for the Annual Meeting in Dublin in that begins next weekend. There’s a lot going on at the moment with our involvement in the accountability battle, IANA transition, privacy, human rights,
and various other topics. </div>
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<div class="">New members will not have seen the messages I’ve sent previously about NCUC’s schedule in Dublin, e.g.
<a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-discuss/2015-October/017612.html" class="">
http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-discuss/2015-October/017612.html</a> so I repeat the highlights here:</div>
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<div class="">Saturday 17 October 14:00-15:00 IST<br class="">
<b class="">Brief Public Exec. Committee Meeting followed by Historical Discussion</b><br class="">
Room: Liffey BR3 [room change]<br class="">
Remote participation details forthcoming<br class="">
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<div class="">Saturday, 17 October - 16:30 to 20:00 IST<br class="">
<b class="">NCUC Community Outreach Event, followed by reception</b><br class="">
Room: L4 Foyer<br class="">
<a href="https://dublin54.icann.org/en/dublin2015/schedule/sat-ncuc-outreach" class="">https://dublin54.icann.org/en/dublin2015/schedule/sat-ncuc-outreach</a> </div>
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<div class="">Sunday, 18 October - 19:00 to whenever<br class="">
<b class="">NCUC Sixteenth Birthday Party</b><br class="">
The Dean Hotel<br class="">
33 Harcourt St, Dublin 2, Ireland<br class="">
<a href="http://deanhoteldublin.ie" class="">deanhoteldublin.ie</a> <br class="">
Map: <a href="http://bit.ly/1WxJhQM">http://bit.ly/1WxJhQM</a> <br class="">
+353 (01) 607 8110</div>
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<div class="">Tuesday, 20 October - 09:30 to 13:00 IST<br class="">
<b class="">NCUC Constituency Day Meeting</b><br class="">
Room: Wicklow Hall 2<br class="">
<a href="https://dublin54.icann.org/en/dublin2015/schedule/tue-ncuc" class="">https://dublin54.icann.org/en/dublin2015/schedule/tue-ncuc</a> </div>
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<div class="">There will be remote participation information on all but the party posted by ICANN shortly on the overall meeting schedule, <a href="https://dublin54.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule-full" class="">https://dublin54.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule-full</a> </div>
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<div class="">In addition, NCUC will participate in all the stakeholder group-level NCSG activities and GNSO activities Rafik has listed on ncsg-discuss, <a href="https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1510&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&F=&S=&P=56255" class="">https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1510&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&F=&S=&P=56255</a> </div>
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<div class=""><b class="">More Generally</b></div>
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<div class="">The ncsg-discuss list is for stakeholder group-wide discussions, mostly with respect to GNSO issues and processes, while this ncuc-discuss list is for the constituency only and focuses on our internal views and positions on these and other ICANN/Internet
governance matters, as well as our intra-organizational development. </div>
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<div class="">Soon after Dublin, NCUC will begin its annual election cycle for a new chair and Executive Committee.</div>
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<div class="">In addition to the NCSG pointers Rafik provided in his post, if you have the time and interest in getting a bit more background, you might want to poke around in</div>
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<div class=""><a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo" class="">http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo</a> (archives of all current constituency mail lists)</div>
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<div class="">Again, many thanks for joining us and welcome aboard.</div>
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William J. Drake<br class="">
International Fellow & Lecturer<br class="">
Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br class="">
University of Zurich, Switzerland<br class="">
Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br class="">
ICANN, <a href="http://www.ncuc.org" class="">www.ncuc.org</a><br class="">
<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" class="">william.drake@uzh.ch</a> (direct), <a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com" class="">wjdrake@gmail.com</a> (lists),<br class="">
<a href="http://www.williamdrake.org" class="">www.williamdrake.org</a><br class="">
<i class="">Internet Governance: The NETmundial Roadmap </i><a href="http://goo.gl/sRR01q" class="">http://goo.gl/sRR01q</a><br class="">
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