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        <p class="title"><font size="4"><b>Application Round Opens for Cartagena Meeting
Fellowships</b></font></p>
        <p class="subtitle">Program ensures global representation at ICANN’s
International Public Meetings</p>
        <p class="docdate">22 July 2010</p>
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<p><strong>MARINA DEL REY, Calif.</strong>: The Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers has launched the 11th round of the
Fellowship program applications for its 39th International Public
Meeting to be held Cartagena, Columbia on 5-10 December 2010.</p>
<p>Over the last 10 meetings, the Fellowship program has proven to be a
successful method of capacity building for the ICANN community, making
sure global voices are heard in the wide variety of public forums that
it holds. As CEO Rod Beckstrom said when addressing the Russian Internet
Governance Forum in Moscow last May, <em>“The Internet is a work in
progress. It feeds and grows off ideas, and new ideas greatly affect its
direction. Its most influential contributors are those who can see the
possibilities that others don’t. And the most powerful are those whose
ideas trigger the imagination of others.”</em> We see the Fellowship
program playing a major role in bringing those great ideas and idea
makers into the Internet community.</p>
<p>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, 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.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>Applications for the meeting in Cartagena will be accepted from now
until 1200 PDT (UTC -7) on 1 September 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/icann39/">https://forms.icann.org/fellowship/applications/icann39/</a>
or email at <a href="mailto:fellowships@icann.org">fellowships@icann.org</a></b></p>
<p><strong>What Is ICANN?</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>