<div dir="ltr">hi all,<div><br></div><div>we are few hours away from the deadline. if there is no strong objection in coming hours, the comment will be considered as endorsed.</div><div>please review.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Rafik</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Le lun. 10 sept. 2018 à 07:59, Rafik Dammak <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_8469683518941169405gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for the review and support.</div><div>there was a team of volunteers and Farell was the penholder and coordinator for the effort.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Rafik</div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Le lun. 10 sept. 2018 à 05:00, Ayden Férdeline <<a href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com" target="_blank">icann@ferdeline.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I’m sorry that I did not get around to reviewing this document sooner.</div><div><br></div><div>I have just reviewed the proposed comment, and I think it is great. My sincere thanks to the drafters for their time taken preparing it. I support its submission.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Ayden Férdeline<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 9 Sep 2018, at 05:34, Rafik Dammak <<a href="mailto:rafik.dammak@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafik.dammak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_8469683518941169405m_3942376915562623715Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="auto"><div>Hi all,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Reminder about  reviewing the public comment <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GGTNxgct2a01Z4lAKdt5m-pxx3Lyemc8lZ0sgAoA65E/edit" style="font-family:sans-serif" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GGTNxgct2a01Z4lAKdt5m-pxx3Lyemc8lZ0sgAoA65E/edit</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif"> </span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Rafik <br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Farell FOLLY</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:farell@benin2point0.org" target="_blank">farell@benin2point0.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Sep 5, 2018, 3:26 AM<br>Subject: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] [Public Comments] Call for Volunteers for Comment on Draft ICANN Africa Strategic Plan 2016-2020 Version 3.0<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu" target="_blank">NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">As a reminder, the link to the PC is: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GGTNxgct2a01Z4lAKdt5m-pxx3Lyemc8lZ0sgAoA65E/edit" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GGTNxgct2a01Z4lAKdt5m-pxx3Lyemc8lZ0sgAoA65E/edit</a> <div><br>
<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 4 Sep 2018, at 19:19, Farell FOLLY <<a href="mailto:farell@BENIN2POINT0.ORG" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">farell@BENIN2POINT0.ORG</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_8469683518941169405m_3942376915562623715m_1070426954059666113Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>Following this message from Rafik regarding the Public Comment on ICANN Strategy for Africa, many volunteers and I drafted our comment as NCSG. I, therefore, invite everybody to take a look and make some suggestions and or comments.</div><div><br></div><div>May people have already provided some inputs but I haven’t resolved any. I prefer to not alter them and let the list check first.</div><div><br></div><div><b>I would also like to remind us that the deadline is set on 10th of September, let’s say in one week.</b></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your usual cooperation.<br><div>
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