<div dir="ltr">Rafik deserves this Award !</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-12-14 13:50 GMT+00:00 Walid AL-SAQAF <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walid.al-saqaf@ims.su.se" target="_blank">walid.al-saqaf@ims.su.se</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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I too wish to add my support for Rafik's nomination for the award.<br>
<br>
Walid<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Walid<br>
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Walid Al-Saqaf, PhD<br>
Postdoc, Department of Media Studies<br>
Stockholm University - Sweden<br>
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:29 PM, Tapani Tarvainen<br>
<<a href="mailto:ncsg@tapani.tarvainen.info">ncsg@tapani.tarvainen.info</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dear all,<br>
><br>
> Nominations for next year's Multistakeholder Ethos Award<br>
> are open, see below.<br>
><br>
> Tapani<br>
><br>
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> ICANN is pleased to announce the opening of the nomination period for<br>
> ICANN's Multistakeholder Ethos Award. Launched in 2014 at ICANN50 in London,<br>
> the Multistakeholder Ethos Award recognizes ICANNparticipants who have<br>
> deeply invested in consensus-based solutions, acknowledging the importance<br>
> of ICANN's multistakeholder model of Internet governance, and contributed in<br>
> a substantive way to the higher interests of ICANN's organization and its<br>
> community.<br>
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> collaboration that substantiate ICANN's multistakeholder model;<br>
><br>
> 2. Facilitator of dialogue and open discussion in a fair and collegial<br>
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><br>
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