> 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. > > IP JUSTICE Robin Gross, Executive Director 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA p: +1-415-553-6261 f: +1-415-462-6451 w: http://www.ipjustice.org e: [log in to unmask]