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Welcome Ezra!</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 20, 2025 11:51:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU <NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Announcement] Welcome to New NCSG Members, October 2025</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Rafik and esteemed NCSG members,<br>
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Thank you sincerely for the warm welcome. I am Ezra Tablaje Baabotin, from Ghana. I am a GhanaSIG Fellow, and the Founder & Executive Director of The Baabotin Initiative; a non-profit organization promoting public awareness on internet governance, cyber safety,
digital literacy among others.<br>
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I am deeply honoured to join the NCSG community and look forward to engaging and engaging in its policy and advocacy work, particularly on areas of digital inclusion, internet governance, data privacy, and digital rights, and the likes in emerging economies.
I welcome opportunities to collaborate, learn, contribute, and advance our shared goal of a more open, secure, and globally representative Internet.<br>
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Warm regards,<br>
Ezra Baabotin<br>
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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. They can join like everyone at the next ICANN meeting in Dublin in the next days <a href="https://icann84.sched.com/" target="_blank">https://icann84.sched.com/</a> .<br>
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I would like to invite you all to wish NCSG incoming members a warm welcome:<br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:black">Purusoth Mahendran<u></u></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:black">Abubakari Saddiq Adams</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Folaranmi Umoru<u></u></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ezra Baabotin<u></u></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:black">Organizational Members <u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:black">SMEX, Abed Kataya</span></p>
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<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>
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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. As usual, we have several drafts in progress that will be shared for review
and input.<br>
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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. <br>
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Feel free to reply to this thread and present yourself to other members and ask any questions.<br>
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Below follows some useful resources/links:<br>
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<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>
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Rafik Dammak
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