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ICANN Fellowship Participants | ICANN79

The following individuals had been selected to participate in ICANN79 to be held 2-7 March 2024 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Name Country or region of residence Working sector and/or area of interest
Abraham Selby Ghana Academia, Business and Commerce, Technical, Security
Alyza Josef Netherlands Academia, Civil Society, Security
Amina Ramallan Nigeria

Technical

Recipient of Tarek Kamel Fellowship Recognition
Caron Maria David Trinidad and Tobago Business and Commerce, ccTLD Operations, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers, Security
Emilia Hanna Zalewska-Czajczyńska Poland ccTLD Operations, Civil Society, Security
Emmanuel Adewale Adedokun Nigeria Academia, Civil Society, Technical
Ephraim Percy Kenyanito Kenya Academia, Civil Society
Esau Lepa I Matangi Tupou Tonga Security
Fatou Sarr Senegal Academia, Business and Commerce, Civil Society (participate Virtually)
Federica Tortorella Dominican Republic ccTLD Operations, Technical
Guillermo Pereyra Uruguay Civil Society, Technical Security
Hafiz Farooq Saudi Arabia Business and Commerce, Technical, Security
Heidy Hernández Guatemala ccTLD Operations
Ignacio Sánchez González Chile Academia, Business and Commerce
Jahongir Jabborov Tajikistan Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers
James Kunle Olorundare Nigeria

Technical

Recipient of Paul Muchene Fellowship Award
Kathleen Scoggin United States of America Academia
Kennedy Wangila Wabuge Kenya Civil Society, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers, Technical, Security
Krislin Goulbourne-Harry Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Academia, Business and Commerce, Technical
Melchizedek Alipio Philippines Academia, Technical
Natalie Tercova Czech Republic Academia
Oier Albizuri Spain Business and Commerce, ICANN Contracted Party
Pedro de Perdigao Lana Brazil Academia, Civil Society
Pranav Bhaskar Tiwari India Academia, Civil Society, Intellectual Property
Senka Hadzic South Africa Civil Society, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers, Technical
Shanelle McPherson Jamaica Academia, Technical, Security
Takehiko (Russell) Harada Papua New Guinea ccTLD Operations, Technical
Tamara Yael Zylbersztejn Argentina Business and Commerce, ccTLD Operations, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers
Vesmira Harutyunyan Armenia Civil Society, Internet End User
Waqar Ahmad Canada Internet End User, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers, Technical
Willie/Nembo Meck Papua New Guinea Operations, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers, Technical, Security
Yanira Zoe Filomeno Vazquez United States of America Academia, Business and Commerce, Civil Society, Security
Yasir Zunair Germany Academia, Business and Commerce, Civil Society

Note: All information above is self-reported by applicants.

Mentors:

  • Jenifer López – ccNSO
  • Arinola Akinyemi – GNSO
  • Laxmi Prasad Yadav – GAC
  • Abdulkarim Oloyede – RSSAC
  • Shreedeep Rayamajhi – At-Large
Domain Name System
Internationalized Domain Name ,IDN,"IDNs are domain names that include characters used in the local representation of languages that are not written with the twenty-six letters of the basic Latin alphabet ""a-z"". An IDN can contain Latin letters with diacritical marks, as required by many European languages, or may consist of characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese. Many languages also use other types of digits than the European ""0-9"". The basic Latin alphabet together with the European-Arabic digits are, for the purpose of domain names, termed ""ASCII characters"" (ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange). These are also included in the broader range of ""Unicode characters"" that provides the basis for IDNs. The ""hostname rule"" requires that all domain names of the type under consideration here are stored in the DNS using only the ASCII characters listed above, with the one further addition of the hyphen ""-"". The Unicode form of an IDN therefore requires special encoding before it is entered into the DNS. The following terminology is used when distinguishing between these forms: A domain name consists of a series of ""labels"" (separated by ""dots""). The ASCII form of an IDN label is termed an ""A-label"". All operations defined in the DNS protocol use A-labels exclusively. The Unicode form, which a user expects to be displayed, is termed a ""U-label"". The difference may be illustrated with the Hindi word for ""test"" — परीका — appearing here as a U-label would (in the Devanagari script). A special form of ""ASCII compatible encoding"" (abbreviated ACE) is applied to this to produce the corresponding A-label: xn--11b5bs1di. A domain name that only includes ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens is termed an ""LDH label"". Although the definitions of A-labels and LDH-labels overlap, a name consisting exclusively of LDH labels, such as""icann.org"" is not an IDN."