Conference Fellowships

Introduction (Revised Description in 2019)

The APSIG Conference Program is meant to identify candidates who deserve support for participating major conferences on Internet and Digital Governance including Internet Governance Forum. The program, supported by APSIG and others, started in 2017.

The 2019 APSIG Finance Committee will handle the Conferene Fellowships. The Committee will use the following procedure to identify candidates:

1. Candidates submit a Conference Fellowship application with the workshop proposal, session proposal or paper with or without the acceptance letter from the relevant conference.

2. Preference will be given to candidates with the accepted workshop proposals, session proposals or the paper from developing countries.

3. After the conference, the selected fellows are required to submit a report to APSIG.

Why APSIG Conference Fellowship Program?

We would like to see many Internet governance leaders and experts in Asia Pacific to participate IGF and other major Internet/Digital governance conferences actively. Unfortunately, financial supports to participate these conferences are very limited. We decided to create Amazon/APSIG Fellowship Program for active participation to IGF. Later, we changed the name to APSIG Conference Fellowships. APSIG focuses more on APSIG alumni. We also recommend all national SIGs and IGFs to sustain active participation to IGF among other major conferences to develop good SIG curriculum and IGF program as well as developing global human networks through active participation to the conferences.

APSIG Conference Fellowship Program - Guideline

2019 APSIG Confernce Fellowships

2019 Fellowship Application Schedule

2019Q1 Application for 2019 RightsCon

2019Q2 Application for 2019 IGF

2019Q3 Announcement of IGF Fellows

2019 Fellows (Berline IGF): Waqas Hassanz (pkSIG)

2019 RightsCon Session Organizers

Yesoul Kim global regulation and orchestration of laws at the international level for large Internet platforms

Satish Babu

Nadira Alalaj

2019 IGF Workshop Organizers from APSIG Alumni

Babu Ram Aryal #308 Sustainability of NRI

2018 APSIG (IGF) Fellowships

2018 Amazon/APSIG Fellowship Subcommittee Members: KS Park (Chair), Satish Babu, Kilnam Chon, Pablo Hinojosa, Mohit Saraswat, Shita Laksmi

2018 Fellowship Application Schedule

2018.4.1-5.15 Initial Application (Letter of Intention) for Amazon/APSIG Fellowships for 2018 IGF particicpation

2018.5.27 IGF workshop proposal to IGF (with the IGF selection taking place in 2018.7.11-13 during IGF MAG Meeting) (new date: 6.6)
2018.5.1-31 Final Fellowship Application with the IGF workshop proposal if you submit the IGF workshop proposal

2018.8.7 2018 IGF Workshop List

2018.8.1~8 Announcement of Amazon/APSIG Fellows

2018.11.12~14 Paris IGF at UNESCO

2018.11.30 Final report to be submitted.

Number of APSIG/Amazon Fellowship Applicants for 2018 IGF: 16 Applicants (and two late Applicants)

2018 APSIG Fellows (Paris IGF): Babu Ram Aryan, Aicha Chebbi, Bhredipta Socarana

Remark: There are no 2018 Amazon Fellows.

2018 IGF Workshop Organizers from APSIG Alumni:

Yeseul Kim, #224;The Past, the Present and the Future for Multistakeholderism

Babu Ram Aryal #231; AI: Legal and ethical challenges for emerging economies [Final Report Has Not Been Submitted]

Aicha Chebbi #239 (#405); Protecting children online: threats and policies

2018 IGF; Other participants

Kilnam Chon, Zolzaya Shagdar, Satish Babu, KS Park, Dr.Govind, Priyatosh Jana, Pablo Hinohosa

2017 APSIG/Amazon (IGF) Fellowships

2017 APSIG/Amazon Fellowship Subcommittee Members: Satish Babu, KS Park, Kilnam Chon,....

Workshops and Meetings Organized by APSIG/Amazon Fellows and Alumni

2017-12-17 Sunday 10:30 - 12:00 All SIG Meeting, Salle 18 (Satish Babu, Chair)

2017-12-17 Sunday 15:00 - 16:00 Zero Day from Nepal (Babu Ram Aryal, Chair)

2017-12-17 Sunday 15:00 - 16:30 How Digital activists are shaping the evolution of the Internet: the voice of civil society in ICANN, Salle 2 (Satish Babu)

2017-12-19 Tuesday 09:00 - 10:30 Collaborative Community Development Program Learn IG Promoting Youth on the Table (WS6), Room XI-A (Shreedeep Rayamajhi)

2017-12-19 Tuesday IoT and accessibility with disability (Gunela Astbrink)

2017-12-20 Wednesday 10:10 - International cooperation among CERTs (Pablo Hinojose)

2017-12-21 Thursday 12:00 - 01:30 Redefining Rights for a Gender Inclusive Networked Future (WS102), Room XXIV-E (Amrita Choudhury)

2017 Amazon Fellows: Amrita Choudhury, Shreedeep Rayamajhi, Gunela Astbrink

2017 APSIG Fellows: Babu Ram Aryan, Said Zazai, (Mubashir Sargana could not participate 2017 IGF)

2017 Fellowship Application Schedule

2017.4 Call for Letter of Intent (until 2017.5.7)

2017.8.1 Announcement of Five Fellows to 2017 IGF (3 Amazon Fellows, 2 APSIG Fellows)

2017.9.30 APSIG Fellows to submit the report.

2017.12.31 Amazon Fellows to submit the draft reports (with the final reports by 2018.1.15).

2018.1.31 Complete all reimbursements

2017 IGF; statistics, chair's summary, various lists,....

Other IGF Fellowship Programs

ISOC Ambassor Programme (20-40 years old; around 25 per year; Apply in 2018.7.2-22 for 2018 IGF)

ISOC Youth IGF Programme (18-25 years old; around 50 per year; Apply in 2018.7.2-22 for 2018 IGF)