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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-12-12-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-12-12-en</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333">Submit Nominations Via the Ethos Award <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/sKJcUjdA5gT50Dl72"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none">Nomination Form</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333">ICANN is pleased to announce the opening of the nomination period for ICANN's <em><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Multistakeholder Ethos Award</span></em>. Launched in 2014 at ICANN50 in London, the <em><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Multistakeholder
Ethos Award</span></em> recognizes ICANNparticipants who have deeply invested in consensus-based solutions, acknowledging the importance of ICANN's multistakeholder model of Internet governance, and contributed in a substantive way to the higher interests
of ICANN's organization and its community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333">The ideal recipient(s) will have served in roles in multiple ICANN working groups or committees and collaborated with more than one Supporting Organization and/or Advisory Committee in a significant capacity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333">Candidates for the award will demonstrate <u>at least five years</u> of participation in the ICANN Community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333">Candidates will be evaluated by a panel of community members appointed by the Chairs of each Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees using a merit-based point system evaluated against three criteria:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333">Demonstrated ability to work across community lines with both familiar and unfamiliar ICANNStakeholders with the aim of consensus building and collaboration that substantiate ICANN's
multistakeholder model;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333">Facilitator of dialogue and open discussion in a fair and collegial manner, through the spirit of collaboration as shown through empathy and demonstrating a sincere desire to engage
with people from other backgrounds, cultures, and interests; and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333">Demonstrated additional devotional factors exhibited by time spent supporting ICANN's multistakeholder model and its overall effectiveness through volunteer service via working
groups or committees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333">Please submit your nominations via this <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/sKJcUjdA5gT50Dl72"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none">Nomination Form</span></a> including detailed
information outlining why the nominee meets the award criteria. Any additional information in support of nominations and/or questions about the award process may be submitted via email at <a href="mailto:ethosaward2017@icann.org"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none">ethosaward2017@icann.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333">Award recipient(s) will be announced in June 2017 at ICANN59 Johannesburg.For more insights on the award program, please consult the <a href="https://community.icann.org/x/YyOAAw"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none">ICANN Community
Wiki</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333">Submit Nominations Via the Ethos Award <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/sKJcUjdA5gT50Dl72"><span style="color:#0098D5;text-decoration:none">Nomination Form</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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