> Application Round Opens for Cartagena Meeting Fellowships
>
> Program ensures global representation at ICANN’s International  
> Public Meetings
>
> 22 July 2010
>
> MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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:https://forms.icann.org/fellowship/applications/icann39/  
> or email at [log in to unmask]
>
> What Is ICANN?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
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