Congrats, Nick! Does this mean you'll be leaving At-Large matters? For that would be sad for us, meaning for most of us, Nick has soldiered along with us from inception and has walked point on a whole lot of our achievements. Carlton ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh <admin@ttcsweb.org>wrote:

Congratulations, Nick!

Via http://blog.icann.org/2009/12/nick-ashton-hart-now-senior-director-participa...

"I’m pleased to announce the appointment of Nick Ashton-Hart Senior Director, Participation and Engagement. This position incorporates the duties of General Manager for Public Participation previously performed by Kieren McCarthy, with some fine-tuning of focus and effort.

ICANN views increasing participation across all stakeholder communities as a strategic priority. This means recruiting new participants in our work, and new communities of interests who are not presently involved, but it also to further empower existing volunteer communities so that all feel their time spent with ICANN is increasingly valuable and effective. ICANN’s participation mechanisms, from public comment processes to meetings to publications, should be world-class – and viewed as such by those who use them; Nick’s job is to ensure that we never accept “good enough” and always look to improve."

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