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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Date: </span>
</b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 2:37 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>ICANN News Alert -- Registration Open for ICANN Academy 2019 Chairing Skills Program</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk460254" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.icann.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=pu7jN3q1ZBfuo7H0_TGgnLZ6DmTKXODkmnlRRHjLLAY&m=h_CDJXWhlkoyJqt6CjQ0T7Lb0mOIJHadQsA6x1LUV2c&s=xkhlWdc0UYIVCJeAZ2nhbPe_WLqWMbK4LFG0LJ86IFo&e=" previewremoved="true"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img width="94" height="94" id="x__x0000_i1026" style="width:.9791in; height:.9791in" alt="ICANN" border="0" src="https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/assets/icann-primary-logo-94x94-en.png"></span></a></p>
<h2 style="text-align:justify">News Alert</h2>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk46014" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_news_announcement-2D2018-2D10-2D16-2Den&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=pu7jN3q1ZBfuo7H0_TGgnLZ6DmTKXODkmnlRRHjLLAY&m=h_CDJXWhlkoyJqt6CjQ0T7Lb0mOIJHadQsA6x1LUV2c&s=HzRoqGDN09yxvH5FYSK3Te2OkMQUwxvAtu2SOGyHKmI&e=" previewremoved="true">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-10-16-en</a></span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify">Registration Open for ICANN Academy 2019 Chairing Skills Program</h2>
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16 October 2018</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">LOS ANGELES – 16 October 2018 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has issued a call for registrations for the 2019 Chairing Skills Program (CSP). The CSP addresses the chairing skill challenges that
ICANN community contributors can face when taking up the responsibility of leading a working group or stakeholder group. It is essentially a peer-coaching program that focuses on new ICANN Chairs that wish to be coached by their peers. For more information
please click <a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk732919" href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=62395123" previewremoved="true">
here</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">The registration deadline is Friday, 21 December 2018, 23:59 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The registration form can be found
<a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk971236" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_d_e_1FAIpQLSeTu6hPv41O1k53mz6FqHg-5FdjwLbCm0E9T6il35VheQP7xP9w_viewform&d=DwMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=pu7jN3q1ZBfuo7H0_TGgnLZ6DmTKXODkmnlRRHjLLAY&m=h_CDJXWhlkoyJqt6CjQ0T7Lb0mOIJHadQsA6x1LUV2c&s=mL1-rlCjvXhQa-cyQb3KRyI3Ef0H1hbKnhqLYrBMeWQ&e=" previewremoved="true">
here</a>. The Chairing Skills Program does not provide financial support for travel to Kobe.</p>
<h3 style="text-align:justify">About ICANN</h3>
<p style="text-align:justify">ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address – a name or a number – into your computer or other device. That address must be
unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world.</p>
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