<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Greetings! This is Sherry, freshly joined NCUC. I was in the Prague meeting in June and learnt a great deal about the group. I am very excited to get started and contribute to the discussion and policy work. I am still getting used to the mailing list setting and very new to policy work, and would appreciate any tips on how and where to get stared. <br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 21 Aug 2025, at 2:34 AM, Joan Kerr <joankerr@FBSC.ORG> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Welcome to NCSG.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Regards,</div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br><table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de"><tbody><tr><td style="width:55px;padding-top:13px"><a href="http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" target="_blank"><img src="https://s-install.avcdn.net/ipm/preview/icons/icon-envelope-tick-green-avg-v1.png" alt="" width="46" height="29" style="width: 46px; height: 29px;"></a></td><td style="width:470px;padding-top:12px;color:#41424e;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">Virus-free.<a href="http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" target="_blank" style="color:#4453ea">www.avg.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="x-msg://10/#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM Rafik Dammak <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear NCSG members,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br><br>The NCSG Executive Committee has approved several applications to join NCSG and I would like to welcome the new members. They were successfully added to this mailing list and should be able to read this welcoming message and follow the discussions from now on on. <br><br>I would like to invite you all to wish NCSG incoming members a warm welcome and prove how much NCSG is an open and welcoming community:<br><br><b>Individual Members:</b></div><div dir="ltr"><div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sherry Shek</span></li></ul></div><div><b>Organizational Members:</b></div><div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Civil Center for Peace, Justice and Development. Representative is Christabel Mebaghandu</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Young Amateurs Radio Club. Representative is Jacob Humble</span></li></ul><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">As the NCSG chair, I am happy to provide help and assist our new members to become involved and active participants in our stakeholder group and in ICANN in general. They can also count on other members for onboarding and support. Please feel free to reach me off-list if you have any questions or you want to have a chat for more clarification.<br><br>Tomslin Samme-Nlar is the Chair of the NCSG Policy Committee, and he will be sharing updates on public comments and opportunities to participate in working groups and policy discussions.<br><br>We held our discussion in this mailing list. In addition to that, we have our monthly Policy call and sometimes webinars on specific issues, details will be shared in the mailing list. We also have several sessions during ICANN meetings and everyone can join remotely. You will also see we have several public consultations to respond to and volunteers drafting comments on behalf of NCSG. The next ICANN meeting will be in October in Dublin.<br><br>Feel free to reply to this thread and present yourself to other members and ask any questions.<br><br>Below follows some useful resources/links:<br><ul><li>NCSG website<a href="https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/gnsononcomstake/overview" target="_blank"> https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/gnsononcomstake/overview</a></li><li>List of working groups and members involved: <a href="https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/gnsononcomstake/pages/116560501/NCSG+Participation+in+Working+Groups+Teams" target="_blank">https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/gnsononcomstake/pages/116560501/NCSG+Participation+in+Working+Groups+Teams </a></li><li>Policy comments and statements: <a href="https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/gnsononcomstake/pages/116557294/Policy+Development" target="_blank">https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/gnsononcomstake/pages/116557294/Policy+Development</a></li><li>Recordings and transcripts of latest meetings: <a href="https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/gnsononcomstake/pages/116567216/Meeting+Records" target="_blank">https://icann-community.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/gnsononcomstake/pages/116567216/Meeting+Records</a></li><li>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></li></ul>Best regards,<br><br>Rafik Dammak<div><br></div><div>NCSG chair<br><br></div></div>
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