<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">For Additional Budget Request 2019, we submitted a request to receive travel support for leaders from developing countries to ICANN meetings. ICANN approved the request but also provided some conditions in its response for approval: <span style="word-spacing:1px;color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.916667rem">"1 </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px">traveler</span><span style="word-spacing:1px;color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.916667rem"> per ICANN Public Meeting in FY19 (i.e. ICANN63, 64, and 65) from an underserved and underrepresented country within the applicable ICANN meeting region". The Global Stakeholder Engagement is in charge of identifying those countries and shall be consulted with before we issue the call for travel support and they provide us with a list of countries that are underrepresented. (they did for Japan and Spain as well). If no application is received from the identified countries, then we can ask ICANN to open the call to the region. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="word-spacing:1px;color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.916667rem"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="word-spacing:1px;color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.916667rem">For Barcelona we announced the call as such "</span><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.916667rem">Staff looked at economic measurements, NCSG membership, and general review of the DNS sector and ICANN community in Europe, this list is the result. However, </span><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">If we receive no applications from one of these countries, we will ask ICANN to open to opportunity to an </span><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">NCSG member from a developing country who is domiciled (i.e. studying, working) in any European country."</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:0.916667rem;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">See the first announcement here:<a href="https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1808&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&P=48"> https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1808&L=NCSG-DISCUSS&P=48</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hope this explains it. </div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:31 PM khatib hanan <<a href="mailto:000005c4a42bc3e8-dmarc-request@listserv.syr.edu">000005c4a42bc3e8-dmarc-request@listserv.syr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569ydpe82bc533yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><div>I had the same question. why not all the countries? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569ydpe82bc533signature"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hanan Khatib<div>IT Consultant</div><div>Business process consultant</div><div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div>
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On Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 3:42:59 PM GMT+2, Farell FOLLY <<a href="mailto:farell@BENIN2POINT0.ORG" target="_blank">farell@BENIN2POINT0.ORG</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><div><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200">Dear Thato,</div><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><br clear="none" class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"></div>They narrow the scope because they seek to provide the aid to the people (within the region) who are really in need and are usually underrepresented during ICANN meetings. I can still recall the previous call (share by the former chair Farzaneh) which only emphasised two or three countries from Europe to no avail.<br clear="none" class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200">
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<div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200yqt7513646340" id="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200yqt77683"><div><br clear="none" class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><blockquote class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" type="cite"><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200">On 12 Feb 2019, at 21:16, Thato Mfikwe <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" href="mailto:thatomfikwe@gmail.com" target="_blank">thatomfikwe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none" class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200">Hi Stephanie,</div><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><br clear="none" class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"></div><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200">Why is the call not open to all regional members?</div><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><br clear="none" class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"></div><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200">Thato Mfikwe.<br clear="none" class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"></div></div><br clear="none" class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200gmail_quote"><div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 6:57 PM Stephanie Perrin <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" href="mailto:stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca" target="_blank">stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca</a>> wrote:<br clear="none" class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"></div><blockquote class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><p class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><font class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" size="+1"><font class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" face="Lucida Grande">As some of you may recall, we have an approved additional budget request for 2018-19 to fund the participation of representatives from under-served countries, in the various ICANN meetings. ICANN 65 in Marrakech
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<ul class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><li class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><font class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" face="Lucida Grande"><span class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">Guinea Bissau</span></font></li><li class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><font class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" face="Lucida Grande"><span class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">Sao Tome and Principe</span></font></li><li class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><font class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" face="Lucida Grande"><span class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">Eritrea</span></font></li></ul><p class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><font class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" size="+1" face="Lucida Grande">This is a short list, and a short time frame as we are being asked to confirm our list of travellers by February 22nd. If you know members who might qualify and be interested, please bring it to their attention. Please
forward statements of interest to myself and Maryam Bakoshi by COB February 21st.<br clear="none" class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200">
</font></p><p class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><font class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" size="+1" face="Lucida Grande">kind regards, <br clear="none" class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200">
</font></p><p class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><font class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" size="+1" face="Lucida Grande">Stephanie Perrin</font></p><p class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200"><font class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200" size="+1" face="Lucida Grande">NCSG Chair</font><br clear="none" class="gmail-m_-2659546947787222569yiv6870834200">
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