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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">The <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">North America At-Large Regional Organization<span> </span></span>(NARALO) is submitting
the following statement for the Fellowship Program to consider during its
restructuring. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><i><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">“NARALO encourage the existing ICANN
Fellowship Program (IFP) to actively outreach to global indigenous communities
and designate two fellowships to these communities from their IFP total
allocation until such time as the original Global Indigenous Ambassador Program
(GIAP) program is reinstated. These communities exist throughout the
world.  We believe that this abides to the wishes of ICANN to be inclusive
and demonstrative that they include this sector of our society as part of the
ICANN multi-stakeholder community.”</span></i></b><span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>The statement had unanimous consensus in the region.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NARALO membership consist of 23 At-Large Organizations and
22 Individual members.<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">Eduardo Díaz</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">NARALO Chair</div><br><p></p>




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