[ga] Application Round Opens for Sydney Meeting Fellowships

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Application Round Opens for Sydney Meeting Fellowships 

Program ensures global representation at ICANN's International Public Meetings 

27 January 2009

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: 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. 

"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." 

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. 

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. 

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: http://www.icann.org/fellowships/ 


Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
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