[afnog] The Fellowship Application for AfriNIC-15 is now OPEN!

[Diane Nuteau]

Dear Colleagues,

We are offering fellowships for our upcoming meeting taking place in 
Yaoundé 19-25 November 2011.

The fellowship is reserved in priority for individuals representing 
small organisations, universities, and media who are actively involved 
in Internet operations and development or ICT policy in their countries 
and respective communities. The fellow is expected to positively and 
actively contribute to IP address management awareness in the AfriNIC 
service region.

To qualify for the fellowship, you:

    * should be a resident of Africa;
    * must not necessarily be an AfriNIC member;
    * should be from a technical (IT, Computer Science) background;
    * have not benefited from previous AfriNIC fellowships;
    * are willing to report on how this fellowship has benefited
      you/your organisation/country.

Upon selection of the fellows, AfriNIC will notify the selected fellows 
directly and allow the fellow seven (7) days to reply with an acceptance 
of the fellowship.A public announcement of the fellowship winners will 
be made after the acceptance by the winners. Please find hereafter the 
schedule for the fellowship process:

29 August 2011: Open Call for fellowship applications

13 September 2011: Close of applications

19 September 2011: Notification to pre-selected fellows

26 September 2011: Deadline of acceptance by awarded fellow

03 October 2011: Final announcement and publication of fellowship list

The fellowship includes: assistance with round-trip airfare to the 
meeting venue, hotel accommodation for the AfriNIC Plenary event, from 
22 November (the day before the beginning of the Plenary) to 25 November 
2011 (the last day of the event).

If you think you meet the criteria enumerated above, please fill in the 
fellowship application form on 
https://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic-15/?q=content/fellowship-programmeand submit 
it with your personal detail information before 13 September 2011.

We wish you good luck and hope to see you in Yaoundé!

Kind Regards,

The AfriNIC Meeting Team

AfriNIC | 11th Floor ABC | Raffles Tower | Cybercity | Mauritius
Tel: +230 403 5100 |Fax: +230 466 6758

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