Welcoming New Members to the Noncommercial Stakeholders Group

Fri Oct 4 00:48:03 EEST 2019

Welcome to all new members joining!

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 2:59 AM Jianne Soriano <jianne.soriano at netmission.asia>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Thank you, Stephanie, for the short and informative introduction on how to
> start. And everyone else for the warm welcome!
>
> I'm Jianne from Hong Kong, currently based in Japan. I've been involved in
> the internet governance space for about 7 years now, beginning when I was
> just in high school. I was also a former MAG member for the IGF. Currently,
> I'm part of a group called Youth4IG, a grassroots initiative made up of
> young people from Asia Pacific and founded by another NCUC member, Mili.
> I've been to two ICANN meetings and have helped facilitate a mock ICANN
> meeting with local students (for ICANN57, I was also part of the Social
> Media WG then) in the past. My background is mostly on youth initiatives,
> local outreach/engagement, and capacity building so I admit that policy
> work is something I'm new at and still learning.
>
> Thank you all for the encouragement to participate and I look forward to
> the work and discussions and see how I can contribute and learn.
>
> All the best,
> *Jianne Soriano*
> Y4IG Mentorship Chairperson
> w: twitter.com/imjiannems
> t: twitter.com/youth4ig | w: youth4ig.asia <https://youth4ig.asia/>
>
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 9:31 AM Yawri Carr Q <yawridaho04 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> I’m Yawri from Costa Rica. I had the opportunity to attend ICANN62 Policy
>> Forum last year as a NextGen and it changed my life. I’m currently an
>> undergraduate Law student at University of Costa Rica and interested on
>> ICANN’s work, so that I like to share it through presentations for my
>> classmates and similar stuff.
>>
>> I enjoy the intersection between Law and Technology and I’m very looking
>> forward to learn more about it and to develop it through out the Central
>> American region. I’m also interested on having a buddy in order to
>> understand better how can I help or join NCUC work and initiatives.
>>
>> I would like to thank Lia Hernández for introducing me to this
>> constituency. As well, thanks a lot to the board for letting me be part and
>> to Stephanie for the welcoming.
>>
>> Looking forward to join you at NCUC and keep on promoting a secure and
>> unified global Internet.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Yawri Carr
>>
>>
>> El jueves, 3 de octubre de 2019, Sindy Obed<zobed25 at gmail.com> escribió:
>>
>>> Welcome to all new members!
>>>
>>> Obed Sindy
>>> President ISOC Haiti et Coordonnateur de Digital Grassroots en Haiti
>>> Telephone : (+509) 34166297
>>> Email : sindy at digitalgrassroots.org
>>> Sites Web : https://www.isoc.ht
>>> https://www.digitalgrassroots.org/
>>> Gouvernance de l'Internet l Apprentissage Digital l Education
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019, 3:06 PM Stephanie Perrin <
>>> stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>>> I am very happy  to welcome our new organizational and
>>>>> individual members who were  approved by the NCSG EC this fall.
>>>>> They were successfully added to this mailing list and so should be
>>>>> able to read this welcoming email, and follow the discussions.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Individual Members *
>>>>>
>>>>> Singh, Ananya; India
>>>>>
>>>>> Soriano, Jianne; Hong Kong
>>>>>
>>>>> Dahlskjaer, Christel; United Kingdom
>>>>>
>>>>> Cantanhede, Cindyneia; Brazil
>>>>>
>>>>> Abidi, Souad; Algeria
>>>>>
>>>>> Carr Quirós, Yawri; Costa Rica
>>>>>
>>>>> *Organizations *
>>>>>
>>>>> Digital Grassroots, Nigeria (Adisa Bolutife)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am happy as the NCSG chair, to support new and existing members in
>>>>> order to assist them in becoming fully involved, in order to participate in
>>>>> our policy discussions and contribute to the work we do.  Please do not
>>>>> hesitate to contact me if you have questions or would like advice on where
>>>>> to start.   We have many experienced members and officers who are happy to
>>>>> help.  I have put some in cc for your easy reference.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are many opportunities to learn about policy development, but a
>>>>> good place to start is our monthly policy call, which usually takes place
>>>>> during the week of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council
>>>>> call.  This month, the Council call will take place on October 24 at 12:00
>>>>> UTC, and the full details and schedule of Council activities can be found
>>>>> here :  https://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar.  Watch
>>>>> for announcements of policy and working group webinars on this list, they
>>>>> are targeted to help bring us all up to date with what is happening in
>>>>> difference groups and topic areas.  Please note the quarterly GNSO Working
>>>>> Group newcomers Webinar, for which the schedule will be shared in due time.
>>>>> Because we are coming up to the Annual meeting to be held in Montreal
>>>>> from November 2-7 (https://meetings.icann.org/en/montreal66), there
>>>>> will be special webinars on topics to be discussed at the Annual Meeting.
>>>>> We will send them to this list as we get them, they are a great way to
>>>>> learn about the issues.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rafik Dammak is the chair of the NCSG Policy committee, and he shares
>>>>> updates on calls for public comment regularly on this list.  To follow the
>>>>> public comments calls, go here
>>>>> https://www.icann.org/public-comments#open-public.  The next policy
>>>>> committee meeting will be held just prior to the GNSO Council call; our
>>>>> ICANN support person Maryam Bakoshi will be sending out reminders for that
>>>>> meeting.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is some basic information you should keep somewhere:
>>>>>
>>>>>    - https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Home   This
>>>>>    is our website where recent activity and upcoming meetings are posted.
>>>>>    - List of working groups and members involved there
>>>>>    https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Getting+Involved+in+Working+Groups
>>>>>
>>>>>    - Policy comments and statements here:
>>>>>    https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Policy+Development
>>>>>
>>>>>    - Recordings and transcripts of latest meetings:
>>>>>    https://community.icann.org/display/gnsononcomstake/Meeting+Records
>>>>>    - To catch up with ongoing discussion see the mailing list archive:
>>>>>
>>>>>    https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__listserv.syr.edu_scripts_wa.exe-3FA0-3DNCSG-2DDISCUSS&d=DwIFAw&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=1A9IIOkJia11FXDmJ1R4Jn7wGT4ExHiVuBF89mvNt_Q&m=vYSL2piPu4XDx4HhqwE-drpaLu9tucqclxpB3_B5Lpo&s=lS8SZqJdsFhrEGRkkA2Jstmrc7NHOIkCnyClDIt_WMI&e=
>>>>>
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>>>>>    <https://www.icann.org/icann-acronyms-and-terms/en/nav/A> *
>>>>>
>>>>> Please join me in welcoming our new members!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Stephanie Perrin
>>>>> NCSG Chair
>>>>>
>>>>
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