Dear all,

Last year, the ccNSO Council initiated a Study Group, which looked into ways of building capacity in the ccNSO Community and how to enhance its work. The final report is available at http://ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/capacity-final-27feb13-en.pdf.

One of the Study Group recommendations was to "Find out the skill set of the community members, target this more efficiently and enhance the skills that exist". In other words – the ccNSO Secretariat is tasked to ask members (non-members are also welcome to respond) to indicate the expertise they can contribute with (if interested). The secretariat will then maintain a list of the "pools of expertise" that exists in our community - in order to be able to target the relevant people, when needed.

Situations where such "pools of expertise" could be needed are, for instance, when the ccNSO receives a request for input from ICANN (or other relevant institutions) and quickly needs to react, or when a Working Group is set up to look into a certain topic.

To meet this recommendation, we are now reaching out to you and ask if you are interested in participating, to indicate the expertise you could contribute with. Areas of expertise could be:

Legal

Financial

Technical

Administrative

Strategy

Internet Governance

…but you are welcome to define/add any other area.

Participating in this initiative is entirely voluntary, however, the more people that participate, the better we get! Therefore, I would like to encourage as many as possible to step up and let us know your areas of expertise. Non-ccNSO members are also most welcome to participate.

If you are interested, please send me an email and the ccNSO Secretariat will keep the data. You can, at any time, withdraw from this initiative as well.

Kind regards,

Gabi