Dear Listers, Please see below for you attention / Participation (and sorry for cross-posting...) 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 <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-proces... *Thank you* *Regards* *Bob.*