[AFRI-Discuss] Fwd: [ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- Fellowship and NextGen at ICANN Application Rounds for ICANN56

[Barrack Otieno]

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This is for your information and attention.

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From: ICANN At-Large Staff <staff at atlarge.icann.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:30:02 +0000
Subject: [ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- Fellowship and
NextGen at ICANN Application Rounds for ICANN56
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[ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/>
News Alert

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-02-10-en

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Fellowship and NextGen at ICANN Application Rounds for ICANN56

10 February 2016

On 22 January, lCANN launched the application rounds for both the
NextGen at ICANN and Fellowship Programs to participate in ICANN56 in
Panama City, Panama in June 2016.

On 5 February, ICANN announced that due to the severity of the Zika
Virus outbreak in the Latin America region, ICANN56 would be relocated
and that a search is underway to identify an alternate location where
the Zika Virus is not a concern. ICANN looks forward to returning to
Panama for a future ICANN Meeting.

What does this mean for Program Applicants?

As the NextGen at ICANN Program is region-specific, ICANN has suspended
the application process, pending the announcement of the new Meeting
location. Once the new location is announced, we will make a decision
on the status of this Program for ICANN56.

This round remains open for eligible Fellowship candidates until 19
February 2016 and successful Fellowship candidates will be announced
on the ICANN website, 25 March 2016.

As a reminder, an important distinction regarding this round of the
Fellowship Program is that only those who have previously participated
in at least one ICANN Fellowship can apply. This is due to the new
ICANN Meeting Strategy<https://meetings.icann.org/en/future-meeting-strategy>
/ Meeting B that is specifically focused on policy making and on-going
work within ICANN Communities, therefore only those Alumni of the
Program who are currently actively engaged in one of the ICANN
Multistakeholder Model Communities are eligible to participate.

The Fellowship Program

The ICANN Fellowship<https://www.icann.org/en/about/participate/fellowships>
program seeks participants from developing countries of the world in
order to help create a broader base of knowledgeable constituents to
engage in the Multistakeholder process and become the new voice of
experience in their regions and beyond. Since its creation in 2007,
the Fellowship Program has built a strong group of individuals who are
actively participating in all of the ICANN communities as well as
various Internet Governance entities within the Internet Ecosystem.
Their engagement ranges from writing articles and blogs, providing
online or in-person public comment in regard to bottom up policy
building, engaging in Internet conferences and panel discussions,
lifting a pen in working groups, mentoring newcomers, assisting our
regional leaders and becoming leaders themselves.

Find out more about applying to the Fellowship
»<https://www.icann.org/en/about/participate/fellowships>

The NextGen at ICANN Program (currently not available for ICANN56 Applications)

The NextGen at ICANN program remains the same for Meeting A, B and C: it
is an education and awareness based experience, designed for a
smaller, younger, and more region-specific group of participants.
Applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 30, live in the region
of the meeting, and be engaged in some level of higher education, with
focus on Internet related subject matter. Each selected member will
deliver a 5-10 minute presentation on a topic relevant to the
community. Recent presentation topics include Internet governance,
DNS, and the future of the Internet.




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