<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Dear NCUC members, </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">As the chair of NCUC, I plan to send you quarterly updates on NCUC the decisions of the executive committee, and give you a summary of NCUC activities. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">This message is the first of the updates. Since the elections in December, the EC has carried out the tasks below:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">1. Appointments to NCSG Committees</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">2. Issuance of Travel Support Announcement for Copenhagen (we have a new mentor-mentee program for the travel support this time, if successful we continue)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">3. Preparation for intersessional ( it’s a meeting among the leaders of commercial stakeholder and noncommercial stakeholder at ICANN.) We also selected Matt Shears as an additional delegate to the intersessional.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">4. The Executive Committee held one meeting in which we decided on various matters (which I have mentioned most of them here) more specifically CROPP which is the community regional outreach pilot program. I will send an email about this very soon.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">5. We need to send the special budget request by the end of January. Issued an announcement to receive suggestions from you. Please insert your suggestions here: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aEZoUNsHBuzj3tyTmlDiGSeinNrKJUYcPrNTfJ-dLJ8/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aEZoUNsHBuzj3tyTmlDiGSeinNrKJUYcPrNTfJ-dLJ8/edit?usp=sharing</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">6. We are also discussing Policy Development Support for NCUC. You can read the discussion here:<a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-discuss/2016-December/020039.html"> http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/ncuc-discuss/2016-December/020039.html</a> and add your suggestions here:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UeheZGySQ4ZtXZxxBnbIXwlHtoiHZhpmq6u0CxLIK0M/edit#"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UeheZGySQ4ZtXZxxBnbIXwlHtoiHZ</font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">hpmq6u0CxLIK0M/edit#</span></a></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">7. Thanks so much for the logo ideas, we are discussing with ICANN Comms the best approach on how to incorporate your ideas. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">8.</font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Renata has kindly created an outreach online form for your outreach ideas. Send us your outreach requests by filling in this form we will get back to you:<a href="http://bit.ly/ncucout"> http://bit.ly/ncucout</a></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">9. You can find all of the EC correspondence at <a href="http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec">http://lists.ncuc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ncuc-ec</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Best regards,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">N<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">CUC Chair </div></font></div></div></div></div>
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