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Overview of the 40th ICANN Silicon Valley Meeting Fellows

 


Silicon Valley Fellowship Meeting Participants

Silicon Valley Fellows:

The following 24 individuals completed their participation in the ICANN40 Meeting held in San Francisco/Silicon Valley 13-18 March 2011.

  • Joseph Mandjolo Mush – DRC
  • Rommel Natividad – Marshall Islands
  • Richard Cheng – Hong Kong*
  • Carlos Rodrigo Saucedo Linares – Bolivia
  • Naveed Ul-Haq – Pakistan
  • Shefqet Meda – Albania
  • Mohammad Thawabeh – Jordan
  • Mohammed Al-Dhaifi – Yemen
  • Jorge Patino – Bolivia
  • Behnam Esfahbod – Iran
  • Sivasubramanian Muthusamy – India
  • Michelle Qinyan – Hong Kong*
  • Mercy Chipata – Malawi
  • Oksana Prykhodko – Ukraine
  • Wilson Abigaba – Uganda
  • Anupam Agrawal – India
  • Jennifer Anson – Palau
  • Lyndel McDonald – Jamaica
  • Lira Samykbaeva – Kyrgyz Republic
  • Jose Arce – Argentina
  • Amr Elsadr – Egypt
  • Nabeel Al-Fayoumi – Jordan
  • Zmarialai Wafa – Afghanistan
  • Fahd Batayneh – Jordan
  • Pastor Peters Omoragbon – Nigeria
  • Salieu Taal – The Gambia

* Richard and Michelle were “honorary” fellows / funded by and representing dotAsia as NetMission Ambassadors

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