Congratulations to Philip Adar, Ephraim Percy Kenyanito and Bonface Witaba on your selection as ICANN fellows. A record number of fellows (3) were selected from the motherland for this application round, this was more than any other country with the only exception being Pakistan. To all selected fellows do enjoy the meeting in Singapore!! BTW the next round of the fellowship applications for ICANN 50 to be held in London begins on January 3rd deadline on February 14th and selected fellows will be announced on March 28th. http://www.icann.org/en/about/participate/fellowships The following candidates have been selected to participate in the Singapore Fellowship Program, 23-27 March 2014 at the 49th ICANN Meeting: Oluwaseun Samson Ojedeji – Nigeria – Academic / Registry Xandra Fong – Fiji – Not for Profit Yungyung Teng – People's Republic of China – Government / IPC Mamadou Lo – Senegal – Business Maricarmen Sequera – Paraguay – End User João Carlos Rebello Caribé – Brazil – Not for Profit / NCUC Md. Jahangir Hossain – Bangladesh – Not for Profit / NPOC Inam Ali – Jordan – Civil Society Hanen Idoudi – Tunisia – Academic Farzaneh Badiei – Iran – End User Karel Douglas – Trinidad and Tobago – Government Bukola Fawole – Nigeria – Academic Pascal Guillaume Bekono – Cameroon – Government / At Large Ephraim Percy Kenyanito – Kenya – End User Shakeel Ahmed – Pakistan – End User Emani Fakaotimanava-Lui – Niue – Not for Profit / At Large Yousef Torman – Jordan – Academic Rommel Natividad – Philippines – Government / GAC Taravatu Arua Taravatu – Papua New Guinea – Government Gul-e Rana – Pakistan – Academic Wisdom Kwasi Donkor – Ghana – Government Rahul Sharma – India – Not for Profit Zakir Syed – Pakistan – Not for Profit Mario Aleman Zapata – Nicaragua – Not for Profit Bonface Witaba – Kenya – Not for Profit / NPOC Ibrahim Alfayoumi – West Bank and Gaza – ccTLD Etuate Cocker – Tonga – Academic Lianna Galstyan – Armenia – Not for Profit Aasis Karan – Fiji – Business / At Large Benjamin Akintunde Akinmoyeje – Nigeria – Not for Profit / NCUC Philip Adar – Kenya – Business Bram Fudzulani – Malawi – Business / ISP and ASO Matilda Pamao – Papua New Guinea – Academic / ccNSO Vernon O'Brien – Dominica – Government Valentina Pavel Burloiu – Romania – Not for Profit / At large Hasnaa Soraya Melyani – Morocco – End User Zhang Zuan – People's Republic of China – Not for Profit / member NCUC Jason Hynds – Barbados – Not for Profit / At Large Mohamed Adas – West Bank and Gaza – End User Mohamed Elshaikh – Sudan – End User Walid Al-Saqaf – Yemen – Academic / NCUC Andreas Sifiso Dlamini – Swaziland - Government Kindest Regards, Paul Muchene