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<div style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;"><span>It's been a big year - for ICANN - and for me, personally. I've traveled around the world, meeting and working together with many of you. It has been a pleasure, and I want to thank all of you for your hard work this year. </span></div>
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<div style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;"><span>This year, the ICANN community came together, trusting each other, to create the final proposals and complete the IANA stewardship transition, after many years of compromise and collaboration. The success of this effort is a real testament to the strength of the multistakeholder model in tackling issues like this.</span></div>
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<div style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;"><span>The result of these efforts is that ICANN is truly rooted in accountability. The entire ICANN ecosystem is more accountable to each other and to you. Thank you for that. </span></div>
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<div style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;line-height:14pt;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;"><span>As we look ahead at what the next year will bring, my focus, as CEO of the ICANN organization, is on doing what we do even better, under the new mission and bylaws, and supporting our strategic objectives. </span></div>
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<div style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;"><span>Thank you for your patience and support over the course of the past year. I'm looking forward to 2017 - to meeting more of you and to continue working together. Happy holidays to you and your family. I wish you all the best in the New Year. </span></div>
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<div style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;"><span>Regards,</span></div>
<div style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;"><strong>Göran Marby </strong></div>
<div style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;"><em>ICANN President and CEO</em></div>
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<div style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;"><span>ICANN57</span><span> was the first ICANN Public Meeting after 1 October 2016, when the Internet Assigned Names Authority (IANA) functions contract with the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) expired. Africa was well represented at this historic meeting, with over 100 participants from 31 countries. The program offered two sessions related to Africa: </span><strong><a style="color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001T6fMme8x4GdaX7Wyvl_4C_3KgSSQRKW0snmithiX4M2VJtMTmyj9nAkMNQInYpjmqpcVHZEYiRqeibOyKC_TZfWz7g4A3Sb08zEIvDtVBZvF0_QVc98sKelvYhhLkvQKkA4f_G6PMqxcGXAMwS8_j_GmWIDDkrm2oNQxSvqeI71PJg7IQVSSR4dKH8VYIji_uKZk0VrHTvc7eAK1XaK0ajR-k7MgGe-71dTuBYKWEdM=&c=sjYVdK-lA4EOrOZReVhx5SsaGiLwpWY44Kbn9izv8zE0ZOPHaLZ8Cw==&ch=A-c8xYHV_rqrIZTXHFD-yKsEr5kJt-yVGEb9gJduXQ4jlXyqKZ2pRQ==" alt="https://icann572016.sched.org/event/8cxw/africa-strategy-update" target="_blank">Africa Strategy Update</a></strong><span> and </span><strong><a style="color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001T6fMme8x4GdaX7Wyvl_4C_3KgSSQRKW0snmithiX4M2VJtMTmyj9nAkMNQInYpjm0B7BEEpspMchQOzckDMLeZ7sXxvHsqhUI4gX4D9BL6rogdKK8Xb2U0dyW29wnbetiKPMCZYcZaglrZyOlqZPo3vcovDP1sUcJ6QstotHlYG1OSRI1CIQpRdRt0SQSJsi46pRLutcBQW33Y2oUyyO7ay27gQZPcD8nuKzzGumBUoiM9t1DUidqw==&c=sjYVdK-lA4EOrOZReVhx5SsaGiLwpWY44Kbn9izv8zE0ZOPHaLZ8Cw==&ch=A-c8xYHV_rqrIZTXHFD-yKsEr5kJt-yVGEb9gJduXQ4jlXyqKZ2pRQ==" alt="https://icann572016.sched.org/event/8cyO/joint-afralo-africann-meeting" target="_blank">Joint AFRALO-AfrICANN Meeting</a></strong><span>.</span></div>
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<div style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;"><span>This session updated participants on the flagship programs in ICANN's Africa strategy over the past three years, including the DNSSEC roadshow, the Africa DNS entrepreneurship program and YouthComm. Participants also learned about some newer initiatives. Our regional partners provided details on other activities, including the Ethiopic label generation rules under the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Africa project. The session reinforced ICANN'S involvement with regional partners in the Internet ecosystem. </span></div>
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<div class="MainText" style="color:#7A7578;font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Source Sans Pro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;"><span>On Wednesday, 2 November, the Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) held a </span><strong><a style="color:rgb(122, 117, 120);" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001T6fMme8x4GdaX7Wyvl_4C_3KgSSQRKW0snmithiX4M2VJtMTmyj9nKsFZ2tiHvxcVt28Ea1-yp2pXyHDWDNjDrocLFz1tzPczq0eqgHdHVHgokXgGR5f58aziwBh93uI_fx7QHk6oLGfiMtzHWQmT_u3Dk_fjHCiRJshbKcO020375ptoLG1S_rnnFJSD7EYI1mfg4rT1dENFJd7ORHuOrZkNnzSjhgaC0hC4KVZXYk=&c=sjYVdK-lA4EOrOZReVhx5SsaGiLwpWY44Kbn9izv8zE0ZOPHaLZ8Cw==&ch=A-c8xYHV_rqrIZTXHFD-yKsEr5kJt-yVGEb9gJduXQ4jlXyqKZ2pRQ==" shape="rect" alt="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=62394381" target="_blank">meeting</a></strong><span> to discuss Work Stream 2. The purpose of Work Stream 2 is to disseminate the new accountability principles into several key parts of ICANN's day-to-day operations, and to develop a culture of accountability across the ICANN community, organization and Board.</span></div>
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<div class="MainText" style="color:#7A7578;font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Source Sans Pro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;"><span>On 24 November, ICANN participated in the Digital Economy Management, Innovation, Society and Technology Conference (</span><strong><a style="color:rgb(122, 117, 120);" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001T6fMme8x4GdaX7Wyvl_4C_3KgSSQRKW0snmithiX4M2VJtMTmyj9nNRYKuaP6ePVxeiP4ZaUL3jonkers7sp1SZuWtEe0u1Klb4tOYVvygtPmEbgZAdhqlqoglUwCjVdFw9--RZtcrBHr6srLMWzhw4O9xOQ3lS6Sib9iVJSRzM=&c=sjYVdK-lA4EOrOZReVhx5SsaGiLwpWY44Kbn9izv8zE0ZOPHaLZ8Cw==&ch=A-c8xYHV_rqrIZTXHFD-yKsEr5kJt-yVGEb9gJduXQ4jlXyqKZ2pRQ==" alt="http://2016.demist.eu/" target="_blank">DEMIST'16</a></strong><span><strong>)</strong>, organized by the Technical University of Warsaw in Poland. The conference, targeting an academic audience, hosted discussions about the direction of changes in the digital market in areas ranging from social behavior to the development of new technologies.</span></div>
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<div class="p1 MainText" style="color:#7A7578;font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Source Sans Pro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left;"><span>Michael Yakushev (VP of Global Stakeholder Engagement in Eastern Europe and Central Asia) and Alexandra Kulikova (Global Stakeholder Engagement Manager of Eastern Europe and Central Asia) presented their work and vision of ICANN's strategic activities in this diverse region of 12 countries covering 9 time zones. Community members were invited to contribute their own ideas and suggestions to the engagement strategy. </span></div>
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<div style="font-size:9pt;text-align:center;" align="center"><span><em>Last month, close to 200 participants came together at one of the most important cybersecurity events <br />in the region.</em></span><br /><br /></div>
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<em><span class="MainText" style="color:#7A7578;font-size:10pt;font-family:Source Sans Pro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Participants gather at UbuntuNet-Connect 2016 in Entebbe, Uganda.</span></em></div>
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<div><em><span class="MainText" style="color:#7A7578;font-size:10pt;font-family:Source Sans Pro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The theme of the West Africa Internet Governance Forum was using the multistakeholder model to develop the Internet in West Africa.</span></em></div>
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<em><span class="MainText" style="color:#7A7578;font-size:10pt;font-family:Source Sans Pro,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ICANN's Brad White sits down with David Conrad, CTO, at ICANN57 to chat about the key signing key rollover.</span></em></div>
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