<div dir="ltr">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>Good day , Many thanks dear Rafik , Congratulations to new members specially to my dear friend Ms Hanane <span style="font-size:13px">Boujemi </span>Welcome to NCSG family .</div><div><br></div><div>Have a nice weekend !</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>Shabnam Shafiei</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Wisdom Donkor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Congratulations to all new members. <br>Welcome onboard.<div><div class="h5"><br><br><br>On Sunday, February 22, 2015, Rafik Dammak <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hello Everybody.<br>><br>> I am glad to welcome in the NCSG list our new organizational and individual members who were approved by the NCSG EC this month. <br>> They were successfully added to this mailing list and so able to read this welcoming and follow the discussions.<br>> I am happy as NCSG chair, to support new and existing members in order to let them be fully involved and participate in our policy discussion and for that I am ready to respond to your questions with the help of other experienced members and officers. I had mail exchange and even skype calls for those who asked, so please feel free to contact me if you want more information or asking for clarifications.<br>> There are opportunities to learn about policy development : with the quarterly GNSO Working Group newcomers Webinar, for which the schedule will be shared in due time. we are also planning a NCSG webinars to discuss or introduce a specific topic, the next will be about IANA stewardship transition update.<br>> A lot of public comments and important reports to cover (priority-wise) <a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments#open-public" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/public-comments#open-public</a> and much more in the coming weeks. For example you can read out lastest comments from NCSG here <a href="https://community.icann.org/x/pCTRAg" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/x/pCTRAg</a> . you can also check the recordings of NCSG sessions during Singapore meeting here <a href="https://community.icann.org/x/sB3xAg" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/x/sB3xAg</a> <br>> We are going to have our regular monthly confcall in March and it is open to all members. That is a good opportunity to to interact with NCSG officers and other members. You will receive the confcall details in near future.<br>> Some information, you should keep somewhere:<br>><br>> While a lot discussion happen here, there are several information in our wikispace which is updated regularly, please check here :<br>><br>> <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-Wiki+Home" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG-Wiki+Home</a> or more easy to remember <a href="https://ncsg.is" target="_blank">https://ncsg.is</a> . Navigating there will give flavor of what we did and are doing.<br>><br>> In particular if you want some info on how to participate in working groups and NCSG , please follow the announcements shared here and be in touch with the Policy committee chair and me . Also please check those links too:<br>><br>> Some tips to get involved <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/How+To+Get+Involved" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/How+To+Get+Involved</a><br>> List of working groups and members involved there <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Getting+Involved+in+Working+Groups" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Getting+Involved+in+Working+Groups</a> <br>> Policy comments and statements here: <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Policy+Development" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Policy+Development</a> <br>> Recordings and transcripts of latest meetings: <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Meetings+Record" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Meetings+Record</a><br>> There is a one-stop page to find all information about GNSO and also about GNSO activities during ICANN meeting.<br>><br>> Also to catch-up with ongoing discussion in the mailing list archive : <a href="https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=NCSG-DISCUSS" target="_blank">https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=NCSG-DISCUSS</a> <br>> Also you can find the NCSG calendar here: <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG+Events+Calendar" target="_blank">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/NCSG+Events+Calendar</a> <br>> Finally, don't feel overwhelmed by ICANN acronyms, you will find most of them in this glossary <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/glossary-2014-02-03-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/glossary-2014-02-03-en</a> <br>><br>> Please welcome warmly:<br>> *Organisations:<br>><br>> ISOC-Yemen, Ahmed Almarwani, Yemen<br>> Internet Society Nepal, Bikram Shrestha, Nepal<br>> gedaref digital city org, Ahmed Mahmoud Eisa, Sudan<br>> J Initiative (JI), Awo Aidam Amenyah, Ghana<br>><br>> *Individuals:<br>><br>> Zakir Syed, Pakistan<br>> Mikhail Komarov, Russia<br>> David Post, United States<br>> Hanane Boujemi, Netherlands<br>> Gigi Johnson, United States<br>> Andrew Donnellan, Australia<br>> Michael R. 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