Ojedeji, 2 other Nigerians for Singapore’14 on fellowship

DigitalSENSE Business News:

The Principal Network Engineer at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Oluwaseun Samson Ojedeji and two other Nigerians have been selected by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to attend the 49^th Public Meeting in Singapore, scheduled for March 23-27, 2014 on fellowship, reports DigitalSENSE Business News.

The fellowship programme, DigitalSENSE Business News recalls brings global voices together at ICANN, while the Singapore meeting has 45 fellows scaling through the selection process with three being Nigerians, mostly from the academia and not-for-profit entities.

The other two Nigerians are Bukola Fawole also from academia and Benjamin Akintunde Akinmoyeje who came from Not-for-Profit organization background.

In all, 42 fellows will be attending the Singapore meeting from 31 countries for the 49th Public Meeting holding between March 2014.

Also, 15 fellows are alumni from at least one of the past 20 programmes, 23 are first-time attendees to an ICANN meeting, and four have attended meetings in past but are fellows for the first time.

The fellows represent all sectors of society including civil, government, academia, business, not-for-profit and user groups. The country code supporting groups are also represented.

Some of the fellow awardees include Xandra Fong from Fiji; Yungyung Teng – People's Republic of China; Mamadou Lo – Senegal; Maricarmen Sequera – Paraguay; João Carlos Rebello Caribé – Brazil; Md. Jahangir Hossain – Bangladesh, Inam Ali – Jordan, Hanen Idoudi – Tunisia – Academic, Farzaneh Badiei – Iran, Karel Douglas – Trinidad and Tobago, and Pascal Guillaume Bekono – Cameroon.

Additionally, Ephraim Percy Kenyanito – Kenya, Shakeel Ahmed – Pakistan, Emani Fakaotimanava-Lui – Niue, Yousef Torman – Jordan, Rommel Natividad – Philippines, Taravatu Arua Taravatu – Papua New Guinea, Gul-e Rana – Pakistan, Wisdom Kwasi Donkor – Ghana, Rahul Sharma – India, Zakir Syed – Pakistan, Mario Aleman Zapata – Nicaragua, Bonface Witaba of Kenya, Ibrahim Alfayoumi – West Bank and Gaza, Etuate Cocker – Tonga, Lianna Galstyan – Armenia, Aasis Karan – Fiji, and Philip Adar – Kenya, made the list.

Others are Bram Fudzulani – Malawi, Matilda Pamao – Papua New Guinea, Vernon O'Brien – Dominica, Valentina Pavel Burloiu – Romania, Hasnaa Soraya Melyani – Morocco, Zhang Zuan – People's Republic of China, Jason Hynds – Barbados, Mohamed Adas – West Bank and Gaza, Mohamed Elshaikh – Sudan, Walid Al-Saqaf – Yemen, and Andreas Sifiso Dlamini – Swaziland.

ICANN received 121 fellowship applications for the Singapore meeting. Applications for each meeting are assessed by an independent selection committee. Priority is given to applicants who meet minimum program requirements, are current residents of developing and least developed nations in the five ICANN regions, and who are interested in participating in ICANN and its supporting organizations, advisory committees or stakeholder groups.

Remmy Nweke

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Pix: Oluwaseun Samson Ojedeji