[At-Large] Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- Fellowship Application Round Opens for ICANN Public Meeting 41 in Amman, Jordan

[Adam Peake]

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From: ICANN News Alert <communications at icann.org>
Date: Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:26 AM
Subject: ICANN News Alert -- Fellowship Application Round Opens for 
ICANN Public Meeting 41 in Amman, Jordan

News Alert
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-14jan11-en.htm

Fellowship Application Round Opens for ICANN Public Meeting 41 in Amman, Jordan
Program Ensures Global Representation at ICANN's Public Meetings
14 January 2011

MARINA DEL REY, California: The Internet Corporation for Assigned 
Names and Numbers is launching the 13th round of the Fellowship 
program applications for its 41st Public Meeting to be held Amman, 
Jordan on 19-24 June 2011.

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 and 
constituencies, or are representatives in the Business, Academic and 
Private sector looking to find support and gain information on how to 
have their voices heard in the Internet community and ICANN. More 
information regarding terms and conditions, as well as eligibility is 
available online at http://www.icann.org/en/fellowships/ or email at 
fellowships at icann.org regarding any questions about this process or 
program.

The Fellowship program will assist in covering airfare, hotel and a 
stipend for those individuals selected to participate in this ICANN 
meeting. Recipients will be expected to actively participate in and 
contribute to ICANN processes, both at the meeting and in the future. 
As always, registration for ICANN's meetings is free for anyone 
wanting to attend.

Applications for the meeting in Jordan will be accepted from 00:00 
UTC on 17 January 2011 until 00:00 UTC on 26 February 2011.

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.