[kictanet] Application Round Opens for San Francisco ICANN meeting Fellowships

[Alice Munyua]

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    Application Round Opens for San Francisco Fellowships

Program ensures global representation at ICANN's International Public 
Meetings

5 October 2010

*MARINA DEL REY, Calif.*: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names 
and Numbers is launching the 12th round of applications for the 
Fellowship program, to facilitate participation in ICANN's 40th 
International Public Meeting to be held San Francisco, California on 
13-18 March 2011.

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.

Per the program charter, applicants must be citizens of economically 
eligible countries (ICANN uses the World Bank classification) and 
priority in selection is given to applicants who are current residents 
of the region that a ICANN meeting is being held in, as well as those 
who are active or interested in participating in ICANN and its 
supporting organizations and advisory committees. In this case, as the 
United States is not an economically eligible country, applicants from 
all other ICANN regions will be equally weighted (as long as applicant 
meets program minimum requirements). 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, in and after 
the ICANN meeting. As always, registration for an ICANN meeting is free 
for anyone wanting to attend.

Applications for the meeting in San Francisco will be accepted from now 
until 1200 PDT (UTC -7) on 12 November 2010. More information, as well 
as a link to the application for a fellowship, is available online at: 
http://www.icann.org/en/fellowships/ or email fellowships at icann.org 
<mailto:fellowships at icann.org> if you encounter a problem.


        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.

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