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Comments on Fellowship Program Application Process Review
- To: comments-fellowship-application-process-review-14jun16@xxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Comments on Fellowship Program Application Process Review
- From: Judith Hellerstein <judith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:54:58 -0400
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My name is Judith Hellerstein and I am a Secretary of NARALO within
the At Large Community. I have been advocating for this change for
several years. Thank you for the opportunity to comment on proposed
revisions in criteria for the ICANN fellowship. I very much support
broadening eligibility to deserving candidates in all regions. There
are many under-served communities in supposedly more affluent
regions. The fellowship has shown great success in bringing and
engaging new people into At Large and all of the RALOs except for
NARALO have benefited from alumnae of the Fellows program. These
Fellows have come with so many great ideas and have grown into
leadership positions in many of the RALOs. In NARALO, I am in awe
of this and also very disappointed that the fellowship program is
closed to similar people in North America. In the US there is great
disparity of income and thousands of people are under the poverty
line. In fact, in some areas of the US, some houses do not even have
electricity, let alone Internet Access, but yet these same people
are dined access to the Fellowship program simply because they live
in North America. That is wrong. They are just as much
representatives of exactly the groups ICANN is looking at engaging.
Many of them are urban poor who are living paycheck to paycheck
trying to put food on the table, are graduate students, or even
recent graduates working a and others who have more. Recent
statistics show that only 25% of families making 30,000 or more have
access to Internet Access and even less to Broadband access. These
demographics and others making 50 or 75,000 a year are groups that
ICANN have been targeting, but because they live in the US, they
have not been eligible for the Fellowship. This needs to change and
the new criteria for Fellowship does this. It gives priority to
applicants from under-served and under-represented communities who
express financial need without regard to location as long as they
are part of an under-served community. Additionally, the emphasis on
diversity (in terms of gender, sector, region, and experience), has
become more pronounced in the program description and selection
criteria.<br>
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In the Native American regions in the US many of the people live in
Poverty. Since they are a separate nation they do not have the same
school systems as others. In many of the tribal areas it is fairly
common for schools not to have any Internet access at all. Even for
tribal meetings there is no Internet access and this could continue
for days until the slow access that people do have is restored. Many
students who apply to colleges and try to get scholarships are not
able to submit applications in a timely manner since every thing is
online and often they do not have Internet access and there is
nowhere to get Internet services and so many people can not apply or
apply late and then can not obtain the scholarship because of this.
In many towns, there maybe the local tribal college library but that
is it and the library often did not have access. It is these end
users who we in At Large are advocating for but yet none of them is
able to engage or even learn about ICANN because they have ht
misfortune of living in the US and are thus not eligible for the
fellowship while others who have more access to Internet are able to
apply simply because they live in a developing country. This needs
to be changed and am glad to see the Fellowship program is changing
their criteria so that these historically under-served populations
can now apply.<br>
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I agree with the idea to use other metrics to categorize who is from
an under-served and underrepresented communities based on social,
economic and environmental factors that hinder an individual’s
ability to develop to its full capacity and benefit from services
that they would have otherwise had access to. e.g. poverty, race,
ethnicity, age, gender, physical disabilities, and factors such as
income, hygiene, and absence of a usual source of care or service
such as basic education, health services, and public transportation<br>
<br>
On the section entitled: <br>
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"Each FC member reviews the applications against the questions set
out in the application form, which relate to the posted applicant
criteria" I think the wording chosen<br>
<blockquote>Has this country where the applicant resides ever been
represented at ICANN meetings before; is it considered
under-served and/or under represented within ICANN? <br>
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Is poor. It should focus less on whether a country in
under-represented in ICANN and ore on is this particular
stakeholder, under-served individual or community represented. That
is more correct. Since US is very well represented in certain areas
but not in others. Indigenous people, people who live in remote
rural areas, people living in low income areas of the country,
people living below the poverty line ar just above it are
under-served and under represented in ICANN and also in the
individuals/government organizations/private sector, etc within
North America. <br>
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Thank you again for allowing others to submit their comments on this
important community program. I am grateful to ICANN for this
opportunity to share my views and hope you will find my suggestions
helpful. Thank you for including my views in the comments<br>
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Best,<br>
Judith Hellerstein<br>
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