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NextGen@ICANN Application Round for ICANN71 is Now Open

21 December 2020

LOS ANGELES – 21 December 2020 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that applications for the NextGen@ICANN program at ICANN71 are now being accepted.

The ICANN71 Policy Forum is scheduled to be held 14-17 June 2021 in The Hague, Netherlands. The NextGen@ICANN program is open to students currently enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral programs and who live in the European region. If ICANN71 is held as a virtual meeting, all NextGen@ICANN program activities will be conducted online.

The NextGen@ICANN application window will remain open until 22 January 2021. Successful candidates will be announced on 26 February 2021 on the ICANN website.

For more information on the program and how to apply, click here.

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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.