Hi all <br>
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I work for Diplo and would like informally to complement the information below. <br>
<br>Diplo does offer fellowships as part of its Internet
governance capacity building programme (IGCBP). These fellowships are granted to our Diplo Alumni for the Summer School and also to
other
important initiatives such as ICANN Studienkreis (who happens to be
also run under the leadership of Wolfgang). Other fellowships I can think of now are IGF Secretariat and Connect Africa (ITU), but there are several others.<br><br>I will be
happy to discuss new partnerships with the initiatives of your
institutions - do write me off-list so we can exchange ideas.<br><br>Because
of the positive results and the impact of the IGCBP, we are able to run
the fourth annual edition. Applications can be made at
<a href="http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig/Activities/display.asp?Topic=Call" target="_blank">http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig/Activities/display.asp?Topic=Call</a><br>
<br>For those of you interested to know more, check
<a href="http://www.diplomacy.edu/links/emerging_leaders" target="_blank">http://www.diplomacy.edu/links/emerging_leaders</a> - the Emerging Leaders
publication illustrates the stories of some of the hundreds of people
who are part of our Diplo Alumni community. <br>
<br>Best,<br>Seiiti<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 11, 2008 4:41 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net">suresh@hserus.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Aaron, DIPLO has a lot of funding available. So they can offer,
and publicize, fellowships.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">A university in Germany – perhaps not as much?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Perhaps the material can be posted online or some other e-learning
measures can be worked out – they will work out cheaper, in both the
short and the long run than flying people to Germany for a summer's worth
of courses. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">AFNOG – held along with AFRINIC meetings – does have
a fellowships program that may be relevant to Internet issues, and possibly to
some internet governance issues though from a technical standpoint. I
manage the fellowships for two similar conferences, but they are focused on the
asiapac and on south asia respectively, so there's a regional requirement
for fellows, besides the obvious background / qualification etc requirements</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Not to mention the "fun" developing country
residents who don't have a previous history of foreign travel can have when
trying to apply for a visa. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Of course, there is a very high incidence of fraudulent
applications at any visa post, so they're bound to do due diligence.
And that can result in situations where a process that can take minutes to apply
+ maybe a couple of days to process for some people from developing countries
can easily become a long drawn out process for others.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> suresh</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Nyangkwe Agien
Aaron [mailto:<a href="mailto:nyangkweagien@gmail.com" target="_blank">nyangkweagien@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 11, 2008 9:03 PM<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>; Suresh Ramasubramanian<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Sponsor for Participation in the [governance] Summer School
on Governance of the Internet</div></span></p>
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<p>Suresh wrote </p>
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<p>"How would approaching an entire mailing list of people
who, though they<br>
know and respect Prof Kleinwachter, have no affiliation with this course,<br>
or authority to award fellowships for it, assuming, of course, that a<br>
fellowship program exists and that fellowships are being awarded?"</p>
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<p> A strategic and apt question. But then, one
must understand that it was due to the fact that no avenue was provided as
to where to seek for sponsorship. In normal cases, hints are provided about
scholarships and applicants called upon to channel their demands. DIPLO
excels at this.</p>
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<p>The organizers of the excellent programme (perharps so
bogged down by curricula activities involved in such a programme)
took this aspect of sponsorship lightly.</p>
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<p>It is not late my very dear Suresh, just do provide the
link where applications for scholarship could be fowarded. This can help
in setting up a data bank of some resources for the programme... for
future use, who knows.</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 5.25pt;">Aaron<br>
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