<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I also reject the application for not being a noncommercial interest. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Additionally, NCSG is not in the business of education. NCSG is created for advocacy of noncommercial interests in DNS policy. We get too many applicants who are not interested in advocating for noncommercial interests and think hanging-out and general learning is a reason we would spend our resources and energy on them. They are wrong. We accept noncommercial advocates and our <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">raison d'</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">être</span> is noncommercial advocacy. If they want to learn, join the ICANN academy or something designed for education.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Robin<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 11, 2018, at 4:38 AM, Raoul Plommer via NCSG-EC <<a href="mailto:ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is" class="">ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I agree - Adaora's interest doesn't sound like a non-commercial one. I would be in favor of rejecting this application.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Raoul</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 July 2018 at 13:57, farzaneh badii via NCSG-EC <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is" target="_blank" class="">ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Hi Maryam </div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">thanks for this. I leave it to other ncsg ec members to respond too but I am not so sure how Adaora interest in DNS market can be interpreted as noncommercial. I can understand that there is a welfare aspect to it which is economic growth so there doesn't look like to be a commercial interest on individual basis but I yet wonder how we can interpret the interest as noncommercial when it's about economic growth and DNS market. </div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Robin I think you had also wanted the inquiry be done. Let us know. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 6:45 AM Maryam Bakoshi via NCSG-EC <<a href="mailto:ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is" target="_blank" class="">ncsg-ec@lists.ncsg.is</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5">
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<div dir="auto" class="">Thank you for your response to my application. </div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">I would like to join the NCSG to learn more about the Domain Name Space and its market advantage to transform African economy. I believe that it is important for African countries to become more involved in the market of domain name registration
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I would also like to learn about IPv4 and IPv6 and how it will help devise an ICT backed policy for Africa.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 9, 2018 18:27, "Maryam Bakoshi" <<a href="mailto:maryam.bakoshi@icann.org" target="_blank" class="">maryam.bakoshi@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class="">
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