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        <p class="title">Updated: ICANN Meeting 41 Fellowship Application Round Extended One Week</p>
<p class="subtitle">Program Ensures Global Representation
at ICANN's Public Meetings</p>
        <p class="docdate">Updated: 28 February 2011<br>
14 January 2011</p>
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<p>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers is extending the deadline for accepting applications
to the June ICANN 41 meeting until 6 March 00:00
UTC due to a venue location change.</p>
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<p><strong>MARINA DEL REY, California</strong>: The
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
is launching the 13th round of the Fellowship program
applications for its 41st Public Meeting to be held
in Singapore on 19-24 June 2011.</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 and constituencies,
or are representatives in the Business, Academic
and Private sector looking to find support and gain
information on how to have their voices heard in
the Internet community and ICANN. More information
regarding terms and conditions, as well as eligibility
is available online at <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/fellowships/">http://www.icann.org/en/fellowships/</a> or
email at <a href="mailto:fellowships@icann.org">fellowships@icann.org</a> regarding
any questions about this process or program.</p>
<p> The Fellowship program will assist in covering
airfare, hotel and a stipend for those individuals
selected to participate in this ICANN meeting. Recipients
will be expected to actively participate in and contribute
to ICANN processes, both at the meeting and in the
future. As always, registration for ICANN’s meetings
is free for anyone wanting to attend. </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>