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ICANN81 Fellowship Program Participants – 2024 Annual General Meeting

ICANN81 Fellowship Program Participants Official Photo
ICANN81 Fellows joined by Fellowship Program Alumnus and Community Members
Name Country or region of residence Working sector and/or area of interest
Abdulrahman Motahar Abdulrahman Abotaleb Yemen Civil Society, Internet End User, Technical, Security
Alexandru Sotropa Romania Academia, Business and Commerce
Askhat Gimranov Uzbekistan ccTLD Operations
Bibi Rookayya Gulmahamed Canada Academia, Internet End User, Technical, Security
Christelle Vaval Haiti ccTLD Operations, Internet End User, Intellectual Property
Dana Cramer Canada Academia, Internet End User, Civil Society
Dechen Chhoeden Bhutan Security
Diego Ernesto Luna Quevedo Colombia ccTLD Operations
Doel Castro Torres Puerto Rico Academia
Edwin Sandys Fiji Academia, ccTLD Operations, Technical, Security
Elisapeta Tipasa Samoa Academia, Technical
Ella Titova Armenia Internet service providers and connectivity providers
Emani Fakaotimanava-Lui Niue ccTLD Operations, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers
Emmanuel Oruk Uganda Academia, Technical, Security
Recipient of Paul Muchene Fellowship Award
Faheem Soomro Pakistan Civil Society, Internet End User, Technical
Fatou Sarr Senegal Academia, Internet End User, Business and Commerce
Gustavo Ortega Alvarado United States of America Academia, Internet End User, Civil Society, Technical, Security
Hariniombonana Andriamampionona Ep Ralaivao Madagascar Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers, Technical
Ida Padikuor Na-Tei Ghana Academia, Internet End User, Business and Commerce, Civil Society
Letitia Adeline Masaea Solomon Islands Civil Society, Internet End User, Technical, Security
Lily Edinam Botsyoe Unites States of America Academia, Civil Society, Technical
Mayssam Sabra Switzerland Business and Commerce, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers, ICANN Contracted Party, Security
Menuka Kasun Chathuranga Dammulla Hewa Samarappulige Sri Lanka Academia, Internet End User, Civil Society
Millenium Anthony Tanzania, United Republic of Academia, Civil Society
Mira Fajriyah Indonesia ccTLD Operations, Technical
Olubusayo Mary Balogun Nigeria ccTLD Operations, Internet End User, Intellectual Property
Oscar Giudice Uruguay Academia, Civil Society, Technical, Security
Oyinkan Rebecca Adebimpe Ireland Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers, Intellectual Property, Internet End User
Saba Tiku Beyene Ethiopia Academia, Civil Society, Technical – Participated virtually
Sachchidanand Upadhyay India Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers, Technical, Security, Internet End User
Sana Nisar Pakistan Academia, Internet End User, Civil Society, Technical, Security
Sandra Verónica Rodríguez Domínguez El Salvador Academia, Internet End User, Civil Society, Technical
Socheata Sokhachan Cambodia Academia, Internet End User, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers, Technical, Security
Tamara Yael Zylbersztejn Argentina Technical
Vânia Oliveira Portugal Civil Society, Internet End User, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers, Security
Waqar Ahmad Canada Internet End User, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers, Technical
Winifred Kula Papua New Guinea Academia, Internet End User, Civil Society, Technical, Security
Xinmen Xu China Business and Commerce, ICANN Contracted Party, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers

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

Mentors:

  • Jenifer López – ccNSO
  • Mark Datysgeld – GNSO
  • Tracy Hackshaw – 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."