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<h2><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">News
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-11jan10-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-11jan10-en.htm</a></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Application
Round Opens for Brussels Meeting Fellowships</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Program
ensures global representation</span></em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
at ICANN’s International Public Meetings</span></p>
<p style="margin: 11.25pt 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">11
January 2010</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 10th round
of Fellowship program applications for its 38th International Public Meeting to
be held in Brussels, Belgium on 20-25 June 2010.</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 8 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 Nairobi Meeting,
there are 26 fellows from 21 countries, chosen from 119 applications received.
10 of the fellows are alumni from at least one of the past eight programmes; 14
fellows are first-time attendees to any ICANN meeting and 2 have attended past
meetings, but are first time fellows. 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, the At-Large and the Generic Names Supporting Organization. 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. 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 for the meeting
in Brussels will be accepted from now until 1200 PDT (UTC -7) on 19 February
2010. More information, as well as a link to the application for a fellowship,
is available online at: <a href="https://forms.icann.org/fellowship/applications/icann38/">https://forms.icann.org/fellowship/applications/icann38/</a>
or email at <a href="mailto:fellowships@icann.org">fellowships@icann.org</a></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What Is ICANN?</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">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.</span></p>
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ICANN's Monthly Magazine</a></span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>