<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>Thanks to Rafik and others for the warm welcome. I attended my first ICANN meeting a few weeks ago in Helsinki through the NextGen@ICANN program. After meeting several of you and attending an NCUC session, I'm excited to join this great community.</div><div><br></div><div>Very short bio: I'm an American now based in Paris. I will soon finish a Master's at the Oxford Internet Institute (thanks for the shout-out, Corinne!), and also work at UNESCO to promote freedom of expression. As indicated by Rafik's message, I'm joining NCUC in an individual capacity.</div><div><br></div><div>I plan to contribute to the Working Party on Human Rights and am also interested in the activities of the the CCWG-Accountability's Work Stream 2, particularly the subgroups related to human rights and to diversity.</div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to working with you all, and hope to meet you at future ICANN meetings.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Rachel</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Rafik Dammak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi everyone,</span><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I am happy as chair to welcome our new NCUC members. They applied to join NCSG and also NCUC for constituency. They were added to the NCUC mailing list and so they are able to follow the discussion and to participate. You probably saw the announcement sent by Tapani in NCSG list too to welcome them. Happy to see that several among them applied to join us after attending ICANN meeting in Helsinki!</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I will be happy to discuss with members by mail offlist or via skype if you have any question or inquiry on how to get involved or any other related matter .</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">So please join me in welcoming:</font></div><div>Individuals:</div></div><div><div><ul><li>Adeel Sadiq<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>Pakistan</li><li>Mika Honkanen<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>Finland</li><li>Ahto Apajalahti<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>Finland</li><li>Rachel Pollack Ichou<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>France</li></ul>Organizations:<ul><li>Youth for Social Welfare Nepal<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Rabi Bahadur BK<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Nepal<br></li></ul><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Please feel free to introduce yourself to colleagues here and share any particular interests and activities related to NCUC, ICANN, etc. We conduct most of our discussion in this mailing list, also sharing any info or relevant announcement. you can also follow NCUC twitter account @ncuc, our experimental chat (</font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">slack-like</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">) </span><a href="https://ncuc.chat/" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://ncuc.chat</a> .<br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>Consulting our website:</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- you can find made by our members including the reports from ICANN meeting <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/members-blog/" target="_blank">http://www.ncuc.org/members-blog/</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- our calendar of events to find out about previous meetings and the recordings <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/events/" target="_blank">http://www.ncuc.org/events/</a></font></div><div>- our brochure <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/brochure/" target="_blank">http://www.ncuc.org/brochure/</a> </div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- mailing lists <a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo</a> </font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best Regards,<br><br>Rafik Dammak</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">NCUC Chair</font></div>
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