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ICANN News Alert -- Fellowship Application Round Opens for ICANN 52 in Marrakech
by ICANN At-Large Staff Aug. 10, 2014

Aug. 10, 2014

News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-08-08-en ________________________________ Fellowship Application Round Opens for ICANN 52 in Marrakech 8 August 2014 About the Fellowship Program: Since its creation in 2007, the Fellowship Program has had over 1000 successful fellowships. Today many of these individuals are actively participating in all of the ICANN communities as leaders in At Large, the GAC, ccNSO, SSAC and gNSO. There are six alumni of the program now on staff at ICANN, including recent SSAC member Dr. Sarmad Hussain as Manager of IDNs and Rodrigo Saucedo as a Stakeholder Engagement Manager in Latin America. Other individuals are engaged in the gNSO and its working groups as well as actively engaging in Internet Governance discussions around the world. The ICANN Fellowship<https://www.icann.org/en/about/participate/fellowships> program seeks participants from developing countries of the world in order to help create a broader base of knowledgeable constituents to engage in the multi-stakeholder process and become the new voice of experience in their regions and beyond. Our current application round for participation in Marrakech next February launches today and remains open until 19 September 2014 with successful candidates announced on the ICANN website 7 November 2014. Find out more about applying ><https://www.icann.org/en/about/participate/fellowships> Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<applewebdata://68497759-1B04-4F9B-84B7-B9445B8F305F/Regards,%20Heidi%20Ullrich,%20Silvia%20Vivanco,%20Matt%20Ashtiani,%20Ariel%20Liang,%20Gisella%20Gruber,%20Nathalie%20Peregrine%20and%20Julia%20Charvolen%20ICANN%20Policy%20Staff%20in%20support%20of%20ALACmailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge<https://www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge> Twitter: @ICANN_AtLarge<https://twitter.com/ICANN_AtLarge>

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Re: [AFRI-Discuss] [ALAC-Internal] New ALS Application received
by PETERS OMORAGBON Aug. 5, 2014

Aug. 5, 2014

Phillip, No one appears to be responding to my request on the application from Open Source Nigeria. Secondly, what about the application by Our Rights Thanks Pastor Peters Omoragbon. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Executive President Nurses Across The Borders. Treasurer Central Association of Nigerians in the UK -CANUK. International Liaison Officer, Nigerian Nurses Charitable Association UK -----Original Message----- From: "Philip Fomba JOHNSON" <johnsonpf1(a)gmail.com> Sent: ‎05/‎08/‎2014 12:05 To: "ALAC Internal List" <alac-internal(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Cc: "Afri-Discuss (afri-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org)" <afri-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [AFRI-Discuss] [ALAC-Internal] New ALS Application received Dear Heidi Ullrich We wish to acknowledge receipt of information on ALS Application from ISOC South Africa Gauteng Chapter. We take due note of said Application while awaiting DD of ISOC South Africa Gauteng Chapter. Philip F Johnson Secretary/AFRALO On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:35 PM, ICANN At-Large Staff < staff(a)atlarge.icann.org> wrote: > > Dear All, > > This is to inform you that we received an ALS application from ISOC South > Africa Gauteng Chapter. It is based in Gauteng, South Africa and would be > a member of AFRALO if accepted. > > Please find the application form attached > > Staff are preparing the Due Diligence. > > -- -- > > Regards, > > Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie > Peregrine and Terri Agnew > ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC > E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org > Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge > Twitter: @ICANN_AtLarge > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ALAC-Internal mailing list > ALAC-Internal(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org > https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/alac-internal > > ALAC Wiki: > https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+Advisory+Committee+(AL… > > At-Large Website: http://atlarge.icann.org > > _______________________________________________ AFRI-Discuss mailing list AFRI-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/afri-discuss Homepage for the region: http://www.afralo.org Posting guidelines to ensure machine translations of emails sent to this list are more accurate: http://www.funredes.org/mistica/english/emec/method_emec/presentation.html#…

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Re: [AFRI-Discuss] Call for More Volunteers AFRALO ROP working GroupSoliciter plus de volontaires pour rejoindre le groupe de travail de ROP
by PETERS OMORAGBON Aug. 4, 2014

Aug. 4, 2014

Include me on the list please. Thanks Pastor Peters Omoragbon. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Executive President Nurses Across The Borders. Treasurer Central Association of Nigerians in the UK -CANUK. International Liaison Officer, Nigerian Nurses Charitable Association UK -----Original Message----- From: "Philip Fomba JOHNSON" <johnsonpf1(a)gmail.com> Sent: ‎31/‎07/‎2014 21:23 To: "Afri-Discuss" <afri-discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: [AFRI-Discuss] Call for More Volunteers AFRALO ROP working GroupSoliciter plus de volontaires pour rejoindre le groupe de travail de ROP Dear All AFRALO seeks more volunteers to join the AFRALO’s ROP Working Group to be set up. The ROP Working Group will address a number of issues that have been raised, including, but not limited to the following Individual membership Weighted Vote Metrics for participation and performance Decertification etc The current Members of the working Group includes: Fatimata Seye Sylla Aziz Hilali Tijani BEN JEMAA Best regards Philip F Johnson Secretary/AFRALO Chers tous AFRALO solicite plus de volontaires pour rejoindre le groupe de travail de ROP d'AFRALO à mettre en place. Le groupe de travail de ROP portera sur un certain nombre de questions y compris, mais non limité à ce qui suit Adhésion individuelle Vote pondéré Mesures de participation et de la performance Retrait de l'accréditation etc. Les membres actuels du groupe de travail groupe comprend : Fatimata Seye Sylla Aziz Hilali Tijani BEN JEMAA Cordiallement Philip F Johnson Secrétaire/AFRALO _______________________________________________ AFRI-Discuss mailing list AFRI-Discuss(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/afri-discuss Homepage for the region: http://www.afralo.org Posting guidelines to ensure machine translations of emails sent to this list are more accurate: http://www.funredes.org/mistica/english/emec/method_emec/presentation.html#…

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Call for More Volunteers AFRALO ROP working Group Soliciter plus de volontaires pour rejoindre le groupe de travail de ROP
by Philip Fomba JOHNSON Aug. 2, 2014

Aug. 2, 2014

Dear All AFRALO seeks more volunteers to join the AFRALO’s ROP Working Group to be set up. The ROP Working Group will address a number of issues that have been raised, including, but not limited to the following Individual membership Weighted Vote Metrics for participation and performance Decertification etc The current Members of the working Group includes: Fatimata Seye Sylla Aziz Hilali Tijani BEN JEMAA Best regards Philip F Johnson Secretary/AFRALO Chers tous AFRALO solicite plus de volontaires pour rejoindre le groupe de travail de ROP d'AFRALO à mettre en place. Le groupe de travail de ROP portera sur un certain nombre de questions y compris, mais non limité à ce qui suit Adhésion individuelle Vote pondéré Mesures de participation et de la performance Retrait de l'accréditation etc. Les membres actuels du groupe de travail groupe comprend : Fatimata Seye Sylla Aziz Hilali Tijani BEN JEMAA Cordiallement Philip F Johnson Secrétaire/AFRALO

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FW: Speak up for your Language! Join a Panel Today
by Fahd Batayneh Aug. 1, 2014

Aug. 1, 2014

Friends and Colleagues, Those who are interested in IDN work or know someone or some institute who could contribute to the advancing of the usage of scripts and languages on the Internet and in domain names, please read on. Please feel free to circulate the message around. Thank you, Fahd Batayneh ICANN Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2014 12:25 AM Subject: [vip] Speak up for your Language! Join a Panel Today Dear Community Member, In the past, labels in the Internet's Root Zone could only contain ASCII characters. The rules for creating new top-level domain labels were simple: labels must (i) only be composed of letters (a-z) in the English alphabet, and (ii) consist of two to 63 characters. All of that is changing now. The future holds a multilingual Internet, where a user from anywhere across the world can navigate entirely in his or her native language. Be a part of this historic change! ICANN is calling for volunteers to serve on one of several panels that will define the rules for generating new top-level domain labels for the script or writing systems for their community. Join a Generation Panel today by emailing <mailto:idntlds@icann.org> idntlds(a)icann.org. Make sure to tell us the language you speak and the script or writing system you want to get involved with. Please help inform and motivate others to join as well. The goal of these panels is to support the use of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) by determining what is a valid top-level domain label in each script or writing system. This involves answering three questions: (i) which subset of characters from the various scripts can be used to form a label[1], (ii) which of these characters (if any) may be considered confusable or variants by end users, and (iii) what are additional constraints[2] on these labels? As there is a single Root Zone, all such label generation rules for all the scripts must be merged into a single reference, which is called the Label Generation Rule-set (LGR). The ICANN community has established a <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf> procedure to develop the LGR for the Root Zone. This procedure is divided into three steps: 1. The basis is a subset of Unicode code points which may be appropriate for the Root Zone and called the Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR). 2. Communities representing various scripts (e.g., Arabic, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Chinese, Latin, Thai, etc.) are invited to organize into Generation Panels to start from the MSR and propose the label generation rules (which contains the three types of rules defined above) for their respective scripts. 3. The script-based proposals developed by the communities are reviewed by a panel of experts called the Integration Panel. Proposals that meet the criteria in the <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/lgr-procedure-20mar13-en.pdf> procedure are integrated into the LGR by the Integration Panel. The LGR is incrementally built upon until it contains all the necessary scripts. For Step 1, ICANN recently released the <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-06-20-en> Maximal Starting Repertoire (MSR-1), covering 22 scripts (Arabic, Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han, Hangul, Hebrew, Hiragana, Kannada, Katakana, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu and Thai) and containing 32,790 code points short-listed from 97,973 allowable code points from Unicode version 6.3. Work on additional scripts will be completed soon. Step 2 is now underway; ICANN needs your help in developing proposals to extend the Root Zone LGR to cover each of these scripts. There is a role for everyone: general script community representation as well as volunteers with knowledge of scripts, linguistics, Unicode, IDNA/DNS or policy. Volunteering is easy; just send an email to <mailto:idntlds@icann.org> idntlds(a)icann.org. Join a Generation Panel today. Help ICANN support top-level domain names in your language! With kind regards, IDN Program Team ICANN [1] Code points appropriate for labels must be letters and should be in widespread modern use. [1] For example, a label cannot be formed entirely by combining marks and must contain at least two letters _____ _____ [1] Code points appropriate for labels must be letters and should be in widespread modern use. [2] For example, a label cannot be formed entirely by combining marks and must contain at least two letters

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