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Successful Candidates Announced for ICANN64 Fellowship

12 November 2018

LOS ANGELES – 12 November 2018 – Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is pleased to announce 45 individuals from 36 countries have been selected to participate in ICANN's Fellowship program at the 64th ICANN Public Meeting in Kobe, Japan to be held 9-14 March 2019.

These successful candidates represent all sectors of society including: civil, government, country code top-level domain (ccTLD) operations, academia, business community, technical, security, and end-user groups.

The Fellowship Program seeks out individuals who are interested in, or already engaged in, the various aspects of ICANN's work in policy building, the operation of the Domain Name System, and the security and stability of the global Internet. The goal of the ICANN Fellowship Program is to strengthen the diversity of the multistakeholder model by fostering opportunities for individuals from underserved and underrepresented communities to become active participants in the ICANN community.

518 applications were received for the ICANN64 Fellowship application round.

Click this link to see the list of selected candidates and learn more about the Fellowship Program.

About ICANN

ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address – a name or a number – into your computer or other device. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world.