[AFRINIC-announce] AFRINIC-18 Call for Fellows: 8 days left to submit an application

[Babusha Radhakissoon]

Dear Colleagues,

Want to join the prestigious AFRINIC fellowship programme? This is the
moment to do it. There are only *8 days* left to submit your
application. This will enable you to travel to Lusaka, Zambia, for the
AFRINIC-18 meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, from 15 to 21 June 2013.

The fellowship is reserved for individuals representing small organisations, universities, and media who are actively involved in
Internet operations and development or ICT policy in their countries and respective communities.

The fellow is expected to positively and actively contribute to IP address management awareness in the AFRINIC service region.

To qualify for the fellowship, you:

	should be a resident of Africa;

	must not necessarily be an AFRINIC member;

	should have a technical (IT, Computer Science) background;

	have not benefited from previous AFRINIC fellowships;

	are willing to report on how this fellowship has benefited you/your organisation/country.

Upon selection of the fellows, AFRINIC will notify the selected fellows directly and allow the fellows seven (7) days to accept or reject the offer.

A public announcement of the fellowship winners will be made after the
acceptance by the winners.

Please find hereafter the schedule for the fellowship process:

*19 March 2013*: Open Call for fellowship applications

*11 April 2013*: Close of applications

*26 April 2013*: Notification to selected fellows

*02 May 2013*: Deadline for acceptance by awarded fellow

*02 May 2013*: Final announcement and publication of the fellowship list

The fellowship includes:

·assistance with round-trip airfare to the meeting venue

·hotel accommodation for the AFRINIC Plenary event from 19 June (the day
before the beginning of the Plenary) to 21 June 2013 (the last day of
the event).

If you think you meet the criteria above, please fill in the fellowship
application form at:http://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic-18/content/fellowship-programme and
submit it with personal information before or on 11 April 2013, 00 00 UTC.

For more information on *AFRINIC-18* please visit:http://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic-18/
For more information on *Africa Internet Summit 2013 *please visit:http://internetsummitafrica.org/

Good luck and we look forward to receiving your applications!

Regards,

The AFRINIC Meeting Team

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Ms. Babusha Radhakissoon                        Tel:   +230 403 51 00
Social Media/Online Engagement Officer          Fax:   +230 466 67 58
babusha at afrinic.net - www.afrinic.net       
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