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First Award Targeted for ICANN Public Meeting in London
Nominations Close 17 May 2014

ICANN is pleased to announce the opening of the nomination period for ICANN's new Multistakeholder Ethos Award Program. This award program seeks to recognize long-standing community members who have served in leadership roles in multiple ICANN working groups or committees and demonstrated collaboration with different supporting organizations and/or advisory committees.

The Multistakeholder Ethos Award will recognize ICANN participants who have deeply invested in consensus-based solutions, recognized the importance of ICANN's multistakeholder model of Internet governance, and contributed in a substantive way to the higher interests of ICANN's organization and its community.

The nomination period for community nominees opens today, 21 April 2014 and closes on 17 May 2014.

Community members interested in submitting a nomination are invited to send an email to ethosaward2014@icann.org including:

• Name of nominee.
• Community of nominee.
• Reasons for nomination.

Please read more at : http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-21apr14-en.htm

and an explanatory blog at: http://blog.icann.org/2014/04/multistakeholder-ethos-award-nomination-process/

Thank you

Regards

Bob.