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*Application Round Opens for Cartagena Meeting Fellowships*

Program ensures global representation at ICANN’s International Public 
Meetings

22 July 2010

*MARINA DEL REY, Calif.*: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names 
and Numbers has launched the 11th round of the Fellowship program 
applications for its 39th International Public Meeting to be held 
Cartagena, Columbia on 5-10 December 2010.

Over the last 10 meetings, the Fellowship program has proven to be a 
successful method of capacity building for the ICANN community, making 
sure global voices are heard in the wide variety of public forums that 
it holds. As CEO Rod Beckstrom said when addressing the Russian Internet 
Governance Forum in Moscow last May, /“The Internet is a work in 
progress. It feeds and grows off ideas, and new ideas greatly affect its 
direction. Its most influential contributors are those who can see the 
possibilities that others don’t. And the most powerful are those whose 
ideas trigger the imagination of others.”/ We see the Fellowship program 
playing a major role in bringing those great ideas and idea makers into 
the Internet community.

Priority in selection is given to applicants who are current residents 
of developing and least developed nations and interested in 
participating in ICANN and its supporting organizations, such as the 
Governmental Advisory Committee, the Country Code Names Supporting 
Organization, the At-Large and the Generic Names Supporting 
Organization. The Fellowship program will assist in covering airfare, 
hotel and a stipend. Recipients will be expected to actively participate 
in and contribute to ICANN processes. As always, registration for 
ICANN’s meetings is free for anyone wanting to attend.

*Applications for the meeting in Cartagena will be accepted from now 
until 1200 PDT (UTC -7) on 1 September 2010. More information, as well 
as a link to the application for a fellowship, is available online at: 
https://forms.icann.org/fellowship/applications/icann39/ or email at 
fellowships at icann.org <mailto:fellowships at icann.org>*

*What Is ICANN?*

To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into 
your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so 
computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique 
identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have 
one global Internet.

ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit 
corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to 
keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes 
competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers.

ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and 
it doesn’t deal with access to the Internet. But through its 
coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an 
important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet.