<div dir="ltr">Hi team<div><br></div><div>Looking at the list there are anomolies I didn't realise existed.. that countries that are territories of USA are listed with NA and may not be seen as eligible for fellowships. I remember when I first put forward a paper on the small islands of the Pacific (the 22 countries that had members in PICISOC) it included American Samoa - where we even held a PacINET - and the northern islands of the Pacific. Similarly with French Polynesia being in Euralo, yet SPC which is the base for ICT in the Pacific is in Noumea.</div><div><br></div><div>This is something which we as a team can raise as feedback to the Geo-region paper. I have always been concerned that this northern group of countries were disadvantaged through PICISOC because outreach to them is too difficult, but this rejecting them because they are territories of USA just exacerbates the whole issue of their alienation from any type of outreach programme. They are tiny little island nations whose end-users don't get much contact at all with the global community unless big brother remembers they are there and them in one of their programmes - which I know is rare.</div><div><br></div><div>Actually, it is one of the reasons that the Cook Islands, Niue and the Tokelaus were originally dropped off the UN lists - because we are territories of NZ... but we claimed our right to be included with other Pacific nations on the ICANN lists - and I thought this also included the northern Pacific Island nations. Put them back into APRALO.</div><div><br></div><div>I think we need to impress on ICANN that political boundaries are not appropriate when we are looking at the needs of end-users and their isolation from the support we could extend to them from within a more appropriate geographic region - if they want it :).</div><div><br></div><div>My 2c worth</div><div>Maureen. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:devtee@gmail.com" target="_blank">devtee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear All<br>
<br>
Glenn Mcknight did a spreadsheet breaking down the Fellowship<br>
recipients by region.<br>
I've produced an updated version with additional sheets to allow for<br>
easier display of fellowship applicants by region or by country<br>
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15882YWPkhx-Gv2tAEPBdJPJKK5QBjvsX2_mvRyDJUQs/edit?usp=sharing" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15882YWPkhx-Gv2tAEPBdJPJKK5QBjvsX2_mvRyDJUQs/edit?usp=sharing</a><br>
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Screencast: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/5oss2emxhlsz8v0/Outreach-Engagement-Fellowship-Analysis.gif" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/5oss2emxhlsz8v0/Outreach-Engagement-Fellowship-Analysis.gif</a><br>
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In addition, I also did some research in the ICANN country names and<br>
the ISO country names to study the differences. You can look at the<br>
comparisons-of-ICANN-ISO sheet to see some of the differences and<br>
highlighting the importance of the georegions report now under<br>
comment. One of the challenges are that the Fellowship uses different<br>
country/territory names than the ICANN or ISO list ; the Fellowship<br>
sheet notes the changes made to align the country names in the<br>
fellowship announcements to the ICANN and ISO lists<br>
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Finally, I've also implemented a methodology so that a fellowship<br>
announcement list can be pasted into the "temp" tab for quick<br>
breakdown and sorting.<br>
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I inputed the data from ICANN 39 to the present ICANN55, I'll polish<br>
off the rest later tomorrow<br>
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Hopefully, the spreadsheet will continue to be more useful for<br>
locating persons that attended fellowship that could be possible<br>
members of At-Large or who know persons and/or organisations that<br>
could be potential members of At-Large.<br>
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Kind Regards,<br>
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Dev Anand<br>
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