[kictanet] ICANN News Alert -- Fellowship Application Round Opens for ICANN Public Meeting 41 in Amman, Jordan

Alice Munyua alice at apc.org
Sun Jan 16 16:22:10 EAT 2011


News Alert
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-14jan11-en.htm

Fellowship Application Round Opens for ICANN Public Meeting 41 in Amman, Jordan
Program Ensures Global Representation at ICANN's Public Meetings
14 January 2011

MARINA DEL REY, California: The Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers is launching the 13th round of the Fellowship
program applications for its 41st Public Meeting to be held Amman,
Jordan on 19-24 June 2011.

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 and
constituencies, or are representatives in the Business, Academic and
Private sector looking to find support and gain information on how to
have their voices heard in the Internet community and ICANN. More
information regarding terms and conditions, as well as eligibility is
available online at http://www.icann.org/en/fellowships/ or email at
fellowships at icann.org regarding any questions about this process or
program.

The Fellowship program will assist in covering airfare, hotel and a
stipend for those individuals selected to participate in this ICANN
meeting. Recipients will be expected to actively participate in and
contribute to ICANN processes, both at the meeting and in the future.
As always, registration for ICANN's meetings is free for anyone
wanting to attend.

Applications for the meeting in Jordan will be accepted from 00:00
UTC on 17 January 2011 until 00:00 UTC on 26 February 2011.

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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