Great Meeting at San Fran

[Amr Elsadr]

Now that I have returned home from the San Francisco meeting and started
settling back in my work (as well as shake off some of the jet-lag), I would
like to take the opportunity to send out a thank you. This was my third
meeting, and by far my most successful one (as per my estimates at least).
Really glad to have met some of our members who were present and put some
faces to the names I've been seeing on this mail list, participate in our
working session last Tuesday, and most importantly finally feel like I am
truly part of a constituency group within the ICANN community. There's
nowhere in the community I would rather belong than in NCUC, and am truly
grateful to the warm welcome I received from our members present in San
Fran. It meant a lot to me.



Having said that, I will follow up as promised on the task of documenting
issues related to the DHS/ICE seizures of domain names from last year and
pass along whatever I accumulate. On a more personal note, I would also like
to pursue ideas on developing some sort of a capacity building program or
plan for NCUC members who might need help easing-in to the various issues
being tackled by NCUC; whether they be new members or older ones who have
not been active. I personally believe that good in-reach into our existing
member roster is just as important as our outreach efforts, and that both
will be futile unless members are encouraged and supported to participate. I
know that we are a constituency of volunteers, and an initiative and effort
should be shown by members to actively participate, but take it from me, it
is not that easy. I believe we have a duty as the only exclusive
representation of non-commercial to promote and foster non-commercial
representation in the ICANN community, and I also believe this is of equal
importance to tackling the various issues that matter to us. Out of the
1,700 participants in San Fran, I wonder how many were non-comm?



I would like to also thank Wendy, Avri, Maria, Alex, and Brenden for
attending the Fellowship morning meeting on Thursday. At least one fellow
informed me that he applied to join NCUC, and several have expressed their
intent to do so soon.



And finally, I thought that I should put it on the record that when I met
President Clinton, I took the time to speak with him (although I was
instructed not to) and told him that we need help in non-commercial and that
it would be great if he joined (although don't hold your breath that he
will). I hope this meets with general approval.



Thanks.



Amr





Amr Elsadr M.D.

Chief Operating Officer

Tele-Med International

http://www.telemedint.net <http://www.telemedint.net/>

Tel: +2(023)534-6098

Fax: +2(023)534-6029



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