At 3:29 PM -0700 8/15/07, Mawaki Chango wrote: >I'm struck with this distribution: 5 for Africa, and 15 for the >Caribbean! The meeting was in the Caribbean. I think the description of the fellowship said it would try to bring more from the region where the meeting was held (as makes sense to do so etc.) I also encouraged a person from Africa to apply, will tell them to keep trying. As well as inviting the fellows to the NCUC meeting, would be a good idea for the NCUC executive to talk to the global partnerships group at ICANN about the program. There's an ALAC program for travel that non-commercial people don't quite fit with, and there's this fellowship program that they also don't quite fit with. Adam >I'm aware that there might sometimes be lack of >interest or shortage of good candidatures from Africa; however, >I did directly encouraged one candidature that is certainly a >very valid and valuable one but not on the win list. I'm just >noting and wondering what might be the reasons of such >discrepancy. > >Good initiative though, and good luck to the winning fellows. > >Mawaki > >--- karen banks <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> hi >> >> >I would strongly encourage NCUC members from "the South" to >> take >> >advantage of these fellowships to attend upcoming ICANN >> meetings >> >> i did encourage a few folk, but i don't think any of them were >> selected.. >> >> pretty impressive list: >> http://www.icann.org/fellowships/san-juan-attendees-jun07.htm >> >> "Thirty-three fellows were selected from 125 applications >> received. >> 65% of the fellows and 68% of applicants had never attended an >> ICANN >> meeting. There were nine fellowship participants who were >> approved >> but decided to postpone taking part until the Los Angeles >> meeting." >> >> 33 participants is not bad at all, and i really welcome the >> initiative >> >> scanning the list, i do wonder if all really needed a grant >> from >> ICANN (ie, couldn't get from their organisations, governments, >> ISOC >> etc) but all in all, a good effort >> >> i'll certainly enoucourage people to apply again >> >> karen >> >> >--MM >> > >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: [log in to unmask] >> >[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >> >[log in to unmask] >> >Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 6:24 AM >> >To: [log in to unmask] >> >Subject: [announce] Fellowships to Ensure Global Voices Heard >> at ICANN >> > >> > >> >Fellowships to Ensure Global Voices Heard at ICANN >> >http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-02aug07.htm >> > >> >More voices from across the globe will be heard at ICANN's >> 30th >> >International Public Meeting in Los Angeles later this year >> thanks to >> >the global fellowships program being launched today. >> > >> >Please distribute this notice to constituency members and >> others in view >> >of the ICANN meetings in Los Angeles in October 2007. >> > >> >Thank you. >> >Kind regards, >> > >> > >> >No virus found in this outgoing message. >> >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> >Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.2/931 - Release >> Date: >> >8/1/2007 4:53 PM >> > >>