[governance] for info: Fellowships to Ensure Global Voices Heard at ICANN

[Adam Peake]

see <http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-02aug07.htm>

Fellowships to Ensure Global Voices Heard at ICANN

Program builds on the successful pilot program run at San Juan meeting

2 August 2007

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: More voices from across the globe will be 
heard at ICANN's 30th International Public Meeting in Los Angeles 
later this year thanks to the global fellowships program being 
launched today.

"ICANN has a global mandate and it's important that we do what we can 
to support participation from every corner of the world. This program 
makes sure we have involvement from individuals from developing and 
least developed nations who otherwise may be unable to attend," said 
Theresa Swinehart, ICANN's Vice President, Global and Strategic 
Partnerships. "The pilot of the fellowship program at our San Juan 
meeting was a success and has helped us refine the program for the 
upcoming ICANN meeting in Los Angeles."

The 33 fellows from 24 countries who played an active role at the San 
Juan meeting were chosen from 125 applications received -- and 65 per 
cent of the fellows and 68 per cent of applicants had never attended 
an ICANN meeting.

Priority will be given to applicants who are current residents of 
developing and least developed nations who are interested in 
participating in ICANN and its supporting organizations, such as the 
Governmental Advisory Committee, the Country Code Names Supporting 
Organization, and the Generic Names Supporting Organization. The 
fellowship 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. The Los Angeles meeting will be 
held from 29 October to 2 November 2007.

"ICANN is working on major efforts with internationalized domain 
names and new top-level domains -- efforts that represent some of the 
biggest changes to the Internet since it was invented," Swinehart 
added. "ICANN wants as much input and global engagement as possible 
on issues like IDNs and top-level domains -- and the fellowship 
program has a key role in helping us accomplish that goal."

Applications will be accepted from now until 1200 PDT (UTC -7) on 
Friday 24 August 2007. More information, as well as a link to the 
application for a fellowship, is available online at: 
http://www.icann.org/fellowships/

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