My experience as an ICANN Fellow |Abu Dhabi 2017

Intorduction 
Peterking Quaye , is my name a young Liberian ICT4Development Advocate , an Internet Governance Evangelist as well as Liberia 1st Youth Internet Governance Ambassador to ICANN Fellowship.

My experience has been awesome and fill with alot to exchange with fellow Liberian youth across the country through my monthly dialogue forum , a proposal l have share with all my partners and supporter across the continent.

What does an ICANN Fellowship means-ICANN announces 60 individuals from 50 countries selected to participate in ICANN's Fellowship program at the 60th Public Meeting in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from 28 October - 3 November 2017.

I was among the successful candidates rto represent Africa and my country Liberia for the 1st time ,we were selected from all sector of society including; civil, government, ccTLD operations, academia, business community, technical, security, and end user groups.

The Fellowship program is  to create a broader and more diverse base of knowledgeable constituents with priority given to candidates currently living in underserved and underrepresented communities around the world, those who represent diversity of gender, sector, region, experience, expertise, and/or have established financial need. An independent selection committee assessed the 512 Fellowship applications received for this meeting.

  
Meeting with Stakeholders :
It took alot to get there during the travel but l made it there - Abu Dhabi on Oct 25th , l started from Liberia via Abidjan and it was the starting . With a stop-over in Paris ,and then to Abu Dhabi . The meeting was fill with educative sessions from - data protection , ICANN constituencies , fellowship night , newcomers day, session with head of ICANN constituency , visit to places in Abu Dhabi,  and Public Forum of ICANN . This session took my breath as it was my first time seeing so much people of the same industry presenting strong opinions about issues on the internet across the globe .
A photo with a team of internet stakeholders from -Nigeria ( .ng) - talking on how to support youth igf- Liberia in the area of media platform to educate the youth on digital literacy and tech trend on radio .

 

A short Video on my experience at ICANN 60|Abu Dhabi