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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Application
Round Opens for Sydney Meeting Fellowships</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Program
ensures global representation at ICANN's International Public Meetings </span></p>
<p style="margin: 11.25pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">27
January 2009</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">MARINA DEL REY,
Calif.</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: The
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has launched the seventh
round of fellowship program applications for its 35th International Public
Meeting to be held in Sydney, Australia from 21-26 June 2009. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"Just like the Internet,
ICANN is global in scope in its operations," said Theresa Swinehart ,
ICANN's Vice President, Global and Strategic Partnerships. "Our fellowship
program has had a lot of success at our last five meetings in making sure
global voices are heard in the wide variety of public forums that it holds." </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For the upcoming meeting in
Mexico City in March, there are 23 fellows from 21 countries, chosen from 105
applications received. There are nine fellowship alumni, nine fellows are
first-time attendees to an ICANN meeting and the remaining five have attended
past meetings, but are first time fellows. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Priority 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, 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.
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Applications will be accepted
from now until 1200 PDT ( UTC -7) on 9 March 2009. More information, as well as
a link to the application for a fellowship, is available online at: <a href="http://www.icann.org/fellowships/">http://www.icann.org/fellowships/ </a></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">About ICANN: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN is responsible for the
global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers like domain
names (like .org, .museum and country codes like .uk) and the addresses used in
a variety of Internet protocols that help computers reach each other over the
Internet. Careful management of these resources is vital to the Internet's
operation, so ICANN's global stakeholders meet regularly to develop policies
that ensure the Internet's ongoing security and stability. ICANN is an
internationally organized, public benefit non-profit company. For more
information please visit: <a href="http://www.icann.org/">www.icann.org</a>. </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Media Contacts: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jason Keenan <br>
Media Adviser, ICANN (USA) <br>
Ph: +1 310 382 4004 <br>
E: <a href="mailto:jason.keenan@icann.org">jason.keenan@icann.org </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">International: Andrew
Robertson <br>
Edelman (London) <br>
Ph: +44 7921 588 770 <br>
E: <a href="mailto:andrew.robertson@edelman.com">andrew.robertson@edelman.com</a></span></p>