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ICANN Fellowship Participants | ICANN82

The following individuals had been selected to participate in ICANN82 to be held 8–13 March 2025 in Seattle, United States of America.

Name Country or region of residence Working sector and/or area of interest
Amged B Shwehdy Libya Civil Society
Angela Jankoska North Macedonia Civil Society, Intellectual Property
Ashirwad Tripathy Nepal Civil Society
Dessyo Peniamina Lika-Lipitoa Sioneholo Niue Business and Commerce, ccTLD Operations, ICANN Contracted Party, Technical, Security
Donnette Sabrina O'Neil Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Civil Society, Internet End User, Technical
Doreen Nandutu Nabuzale Uganda Technical - Participate virtually
Einas Al Shaikh Oman Internet End User
Enerst Mafuta Katoka Zambia

Business and Commerce, Internet End User, Technical

Recipient of Paul Muchene Fellowship Award
Federica Tortorella Dominican Republic ccTLD Operations
Filimoni Pelenato Samoa Business and Commerce, ccTLD Operations, ICANN Contracted Party, Internet service providers and connectivity providers
Georgia Osborn United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Academia, Business and Commerce, ccTLD Operations, ICANN Contracted Party
Hildah Maina Kenya ccTLD Operations
Isaac Dare Omilabu Nigeria Civil Society, Internet End User – Participate virtually
Iulia-Melissa Git Romania Business and Commerce, Civil Society, Security, Intellectual Property, Internet End User
Kasun Tharaka Wickramasuriya Sri Lanka Civil Society, Intellectual Property, Internet End User
Mabda Haerunnisa Fajrilla Sidiq Indonesia Academia, Civil Society, Internet End User
Maureen Diana Salini Solomon Islands Civil Society, Internet End User, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers, Technical
Mohammad Atif Aleem Sweden Business & Commerce, Civil society, Internet service providers and connectivity providers, Technical
Mohamed Salah Mauritania Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers, Technical – Participate virtually
Mohibul Mahmud Canada Business and Commerce, Internet End User, Technical, Security
Oluwasegun Omolosho Nigeria Business and Commerce
Puthineath Lay Cambodia Academia, Internet End User, Technical, Security
Raymond Selorm Mamattah Ghana

Civil Society, Internet End User

Recipient of Tarek Kamel Fellowship Recognition
Rhea Subramanya United States of America Civil Society, Internet End User
Rihana Avila Huatuco Peru Academia, Civil Society, Internet End User, Technical
Rolla Hamza Egypt Academia, Internet End User, Technical, Security
Saiidnajib Saidislomzoda Tajikistan Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers
Saima Nisar Malaysia Academia, Business and Commerce, Civil Society, Internet End User
Seth Adjei Gyimah Ghana Academia, Civil Society, Technical, Security, Internet End User
Songo Nore Papua New Guinea Business and Commerce, Internet End User
Svaradiva Anurdea Devi Malta Academia, Internet End User, Technical
Teresa Wankin Trinidad and Tobago Business and Commerce, Civil Society, Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers
Weronika Słomińska Poland Academia, Business and Commerce, Internet End User
Yasir Zunair Germany Academia, Business and Commerce, Civil Society, Internet End User

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

Mentors:

  • Jenifer López – ccNSO
  • Mark Datysgeld – GNSO
  • Karel Douglas – GAC
  • Abdulkarim Oloyede – RSSAC
  • Shreedeep Rayamajhi – At-Large
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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."