<div dir="auto">Thank you for your timely response: </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In brief I have matured in the civil society space in my volunteering and early career working from strategy to operations and importantly a mission built around civil action, and technology has always been the limelight that draws me to wanting to shape the internet through the internet governance community.</div><div dir="auto">Currently I’m am in a transition taking more policy roles with the Applicant support program, my involvement as an active youth stakeholder in the internet governance space drawn in understanding censorship, freedom of speech and online association this is directly tied to strong digital rights that support digital civil liberties. With my inclusion in the ICANN community NCSG of active civil society participating in building a string DNS and connectivity infrastructure fits the criteria to build in the community and learn how to create policy and add a new lens to outreach and support of advocacy responsibilities of the group as a youth in the internet governance space.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kind regards</div><div dir="auto">Karsan </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 at 18:41, Johan Helsingius <<a href="mailto:julf@julf.com">julf@julf.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">We apologize for the delay, caused by issues in our membership approval<br>
system. We did review your application in our EC meeting this week,<br>
and we concluded that we need to ask you for further clarification of<br>
the nature of noncommercial interest. I am glad to hear you are a<br>
fellow, but could you tell us about your non-commercial interests?<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Julf Helsingius, NCSG Chair<br>
<br>
On 17/03/2023 10:01, <a href="mailto:gabkarsan@gmail.com" target="_blank">gabkarsan@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
> Greeting Chair,<br>
> <br>
> My name is Karsan, Gabriel an ICANN75 fellow from Tanzania, I sent my <br>
> application as a member of NCSG but it's been over 6 months without a <br>
> response.<br>
> <br>
> Would you please assist on the matter? I am keen to be a member of this <br>
> group and contribute as I widen my knowledge and significance in the <br>
> community.<br>
> <br>
> Kind regards,<br>
> Karsan, Gabriel<br>
> <br>
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> photo <br>
> *Gabriel Karsan*<br>
> <br>
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</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Karsan, Gab</div>