http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-05oct10-en.htm

Application Round Opens for San Francisco Fellowships
Program ensures global representation at ICANN's International Public  
Meetings

5 October 2010

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names  
and Numbers is launching the 12th round of applications for the  
Fellowship program, to facilitate participation in ICANN's 40th  
International Public Meeting to be held San Francisco, California on  
13-18 March 2011.

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, "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." We  
see the Fellowship program playing a major role in bringing those  
great ideas and idea makers into the Internet community.

Per the program charter, applicants must be citizens of economically  
eligible countries (ICANN uses the World Bank classification) and  
priority in selection is given to applicants who are current  
residents of the region that a ICANN meeting is being held in, as  
well as those who are active or interested in participating in ICANN  
and its supporting organizations and advisory committees. In this  
case, as the United States is not an economically eligible country,  
applicants from all other ICANN regions will be equally weighted (as  
long as applicant meets program minimum requirements). 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, in and after the ICANN meeting. As always,  
registration for an ICANN meeting is free for anyone wanting to attend.

Applications for the meeting in San Francisco will be accepted from  
now until 1200 PDT (UTC -7) on 12 November 2010. More information, as  
well as a link to the application for a fellowship, is available  
online at: http://www.icann.org/en/fellowships/ or email  
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