Hi Akriti and everyone,

First of all, thank you for your service, Akriti, and I wish you all the best in your new chapter. It was a pleasure working with you.

I really hope someone will step forward to help me out as a co-chair for 2020. I will unfortunately not be at ICANN67, so maybe members of this group can spread the word in person that we are looking for a co-chair if we don’t have one by then.

Secondly, I think it’s a little late to squeeze in a call before ICANN 67 Cancun, but perhaps we could schedule a planning call for after ICANN 67.

Here’s my proposal:

• Host a CCWP-HR call sometime Monday March 23 – Friday March 27. I will send out a doodle poll soon (ideally after we have a co-chair).
• Proposed agenda:
• Someone from WS2 implementation team could update us (Niels?)
• Article19 update on their HRIAs of Internet registries
• Brainstorm our next action (paper/panel?) for 2020
• AOB

Of course, I welcome any feedback on next steps or the agenda for the next call, etc.

Austin

From: cc-humanrights <cc-humanrights-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Akriti <akriti@cis-india.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 12:35 AM
To: CCWP-HR mailing list <cc-humanrights@icann.org>
Subject: [cc-humanrights] Stepping down as chair

Hi everyone! 

I wanted to inform you all that I left the Centre for Internet and Society a month ago to pursue a research position in another think tank in Bangalore. And as such, I have no scope within my work to continue working on ICANN. Of course, I am personally to contribute in the figure however it cannot be so in the role of a Chair anymore. Thank you to all of you I've met over these years and who've made our work in this group much stronger! 

Feel free to email me at akritibopanna@outlook.com in the future :) 

Now would also be a good time in case someone wants to step up and join Austin to lead the group! 

Best, 

Akriti