<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Robin sent this to the NCSG-discuss list but I'm reiterating for emphasis. This is a really good program for new attendees that gets you plugged into ICANN world fairly quickly, albeit with a strong dose of the party line. I would strongly encourage NCUC members to consider applying!<div><br></div><div>Bill<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Janice Douma Lange <<a href="mailto:janice.lange@icann.org">janice.lange@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>ICANN Singapore Fellowship Application round is Open</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">September 20, 2013 8:21:49 PM GMT+02:00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Mouhamet Diop <<a href="mailto:mouhamet@next.sn">mouhamet@next.sn</a>>, "Gaurab Raj Upadhaya " <<a href="mailto:gaurab@lahai.com">gaurab@lahai.com</a>>, "Fahd A. Batayneh" <<a href="mailto:fahd.batayneh@gmail.com">fahd.batayneh@gmail.com</a>>, Nelly Stoyanova <<a href="mailto:stoyanova.nelly@gmail.com">stoyanova.nelly@gmail.com</a>>, "Demi Getschko (<a href="mailto:trieste@gmail.com">trieste@gmail.com</a>)" <<a href="mailto:trieste@gmail.com">trieste@gmail.com</a>>, Vanda Scartezini <<a href="mailto:vanda@uol.com.br">vanda@uol.com.br</a>>, Jorge Etges <<a href="mailto:jorge@etges.com.br">jorge@etges.com.br</a>>, "Steven G. Huter" <<a href="mailto:sghuter@nsrc.org">sghuter@nsrc.org</a>>, "Alejandro Pisanty (<a href="mailto:apisanty@gmail.com">apisanty@gmail.com</a>)" <<a href="mailto:apisanty@gmail.com">apisanty@gmail.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:nquaynor@gmail.com">nquaynor@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:nquaynor@gmail.com">nquaynor@gmail.com</a>>, Olivier Crepin-Leblond <<a href="mailto:ocl@gih.com">ocl@gih.com</a>>, "Heather (<a href="mailto:Heather.Dryden@ic.gc.ca">Heather.Dryden@ic.gc.ca</a>)" <<a href="mailto:Heather.Dryden@ic.gc.ca">Heather.Dryden@ic.gc.ca</a>>, Marilyn Cade <<a href="mailto:marilynscade@hotmail.com">marilynscade@hotmail.com</a>>, "Elisa Cooper " <<a href="mailto:Elisa.Cooper@markmonitor.com">Elisa.Cooper@markmonitor.com</a>>, Tony Holmes <<a href="mailto:tonyarholmes@btinternet.com">tonyarholmes@btinternet.com</a>>, Erick Iriarte Ahon <<a href="mailto:eiriarte@alfa-redi.org">eiriarte@alfa-redi.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:hongxueipr@gmail.com">hongxueipr@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:hongxueipr@gmail.com">hongxueipr@gmail.com</a>>, "Nashwa Abdelbaki (<a href="mailto:nashwa.abdel-baki@uni-ulm.de">nashwa.abdel-baki@uni-ulm.de</a>)" <<a href="mailto:nashwa.abdel-baki@uni-ulm.de">nashwa.abdel-baki@uni-ulm.de</a>>, "<a href="mailto:tc@tc.md">tc@tc.md</a>" <<a href="mailto:tc@tc.md">tc@tc.md</a>>, "<a href="mailto:el-sherbiny@un.org">el-sherbiny@un.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:el-sherbiny@un.org">el-sherbiny@un.org</a>>, Pierre Ouédraogo <<a href="mailto:pierre.ouedraogo@francophonie.org">pierre.ouedraogo@francophonie.org</a>>, Steven Metalitz <<a href="mailto:met@msk.com">met@msk.com</a>>, Patrik Fältström <<a href="mailto:patrik@frobbit.se">patrik@frobbit.se</a>>, "Lars-Johan Liman " <<a href="mailto:liman@netnod.se">liman@netnod.se</a>>, "Robin Gross " <<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de">wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de</a>" <<a href="mailto:wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de">wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de</a>>, Hultzsch <<a href="mailto:Hultzsch@telekom.de">Hultzsch@telekom.de</a>>, Bill Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>>, marie-laure Lemineur <<a href="mailto:mllemineur@gmail.com">mllemineur@gmail.com</a>>, Chris Chaplow <<a href="mailto:chris@andalucia.com">chris@andalucia.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:icann-staff@icann.org">icann-staff@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:icann-staff@icann.org">icann-staff@icann.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:Fellowships-alumni@icann.org">Fellowships-alumni@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:Fellowships-alumni@icann.org">Fellowships-alumni@icann.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div bgcolor="white" background="cid:image001.gif@01CEB5E9.BD4F47A0" lang="EN-US" link="#3B00CA" vlink="#093384" style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 42, 85); ">The Fellowship application round for ICANN 49 in Singapore has now opened and will remain open until 1 November 2013. Please go to<a href="http://www.icann.org/" style="color: rgb(9, 51, 132); text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.icann.org/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>where the banner announcement will lead to the Fellowship webpage and link to the application.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 42, 85); "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 42, 85); ">I appreciate the continued support of all the Community Leaders and supporters, Selection Committee members past and present, alumni of the program and Staff, in sharing information about the Fellowship program outward to their communities.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 42, 85); "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 42, 85); ">I am also very proud of the individuals who have participated in Fellowship, in ICANN and in the Internet community over the past 6 plus years since the Program launched at ICANN 29 in Puerto Rico. Recently, 3 alumni of the program were selected through the NomCom process and I would like to acknowledge them here as well; they are the latest of many individual achievements that have been facilitated through the Fellowship experience. Now, let’s keep working to include more candidates from regions and sectors that are still without the voice in the Multistakeholder model that is ICANN.<o:p></o:p></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><strong>Please meet:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/groups/nomcom/bios-02sep13-en.htm#beran-dondeh-gillen" style="color: rgb(9, 51, 132); text-decoration: underline; ">Beran Dondeh Gillen</a></strong>, Africa,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/groups/nomcom/bios-02sep13-en.htm#leon-sanchez" style="color: rgb(9, 51, 132); text-decoration: underline; ">Leon Sanchez</a></strong>, Latin America/Caribbean Islands, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/groups/nomcom/bios-02sep13-en.htm#celia-lerman" style="color: rgb(9, 51, 132); text-decoration: underline; ">Celia Lerman</a></strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Latin America/Caribbean Islands –<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 42, 85); ">Congratulations and looking forward to your contributions in the coming years.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(40, 42, 85); "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">**********************************************************<br>William J. Drake<br>International Fellow & Lecturer<br> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br> ICANN, <a href="http://www.ncuc.org">www.ncuc.org</a><br><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a> (w), <a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a> (h),<br> <a href="http://www.williamdrake.org">www.williamdrake.org</a><br>***********************************************************</div></div></div>
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