Community Recognizes Leaders as Work Continues

Community-driven work is at the core of ICANN's mission. Our community members spend countless hours in working groups, on leadership teams, and in a variety of other activities across our Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees. This commitment of time, energy, and brainpower advances important policy development and advisory work. As one simple indicator of this level of activity commitment, community members participated in a total of 185 working sessions at ICANN54 alone.

At ICANN54, 43 community leaders from the At-Large, RSSAC, ASO, ccNSO, and GNSO communities and the Nominating Committee were recognized for their contributions to ICANN's work. The full list and a link to the resolution by the Board of Directors are published in this month's issue.

Of course, we cannot recognize community leaders without acknowledging the ongoing, extraordinary efforts of the IANA Stewardship Transition process and the Enhancing ICANN Accountability effort. Collectively, more than 300 community leaders have contributed substantially to proposals and working groups in the past 20 months.

My colleagues and I are grateful for our community and the opportunities they give us to help support their work. ICANN's growth and evolution as a multistakeholder organization depends on the sustained engagement of you all.

Best regards,