[Chapter-delegates] Expanding the NGL Programme: Fellowship to World Bank infoDev Global Forum

[Connie Kendig]

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Internet Society Fellowship to World Bank infoDev Global Forum expands opportunities for the Internet’s next generation of leaders

Two chosen to attend World Bank infoDev Global Forum on “Innovation & Technology Entrepreneurship”

The Internet Society has expanded the Next Generation Leaders (NGL) programme to include a pilot fellowship to the forthcoming World Bank infoDev Global Forum on “Innovation & Technology Entrepreneurship”, to be held in Helsinki, Finland from 30 May to 3 June 2011. The two Internet Society Fellows selected for the event – Dorcas Muthoni and Fahd Batayneh – have each participated in other aspects of the NGL programme.
 
The Internet Society’s Next Generation Leaders programme blends coursework, practical experience and mentorship to help prepare young professionals from around the world to become the next generation of Internet technology, policy, and business leaders.  Until now, the NGL programme included the online academic coursework Shaping the Internet: History and Futures and fellowships to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Technology Foresight Forum.

The addition of the World Bank infoDev Global Forum to the NGL curriculum deepens the overall programme and increases the opportunities for participants with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

The Global Forum is a biennial event, this year focusing on Mobile Applications, Agri-business, and Clean Technologies. It will bring together entrepreneurs, financiers, business incubators, and policy makers for several days of intensive knowledge sharing and networking.

“The Internet Society’s partnership with the World Bank and infoDev strengthens opportunities for emerging Internet leaders and provides their organizations access to and visibility among a growing network of diverse global innovators,“ notes Toral Cowieson, Senior Director of Internet Leadership Programmes.

As this is a pilot fellowship in 2011, the Internet Society invited former participants of its other NGL components to apply. The two successful applications were submitted by:

 -  Dorcas Muthoni Gachari (Kenya) is an entrepreneur and computer scientist; CEO and founder of OPENWORLD Ltd, a leading e-Government and Business Technology Solutions firm in the Eastern Africa region. Ms Muthoni is also the founder of AfCHIX, a technical capacity building initiative for women in the region.

 -  Fahd Batayneh (Jordan) is currently affiliated with Jordan’s National Information Technology Center, as a names and numbers specialist. Mr Batayneh is a member of the national steering committees responsible for deploying IPv6 and ENUM in Jordan, and part of the team that designed the policies and launch periods for Jordan’s IDN ccTLD (country code top-level domain) .al-ordon in Arabic.

The NGL programme is sponsored by Nominet Trust and the Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération (AFNIC); and supported by the European Commission for Information Society and Media.

Full details of the Next Generation Leaders programme and its other opportunities are available here: http://www.InternetSociety.org/leaders/

More information about the World Bank infoDev Global Forum on “Innovation & Technology Entrepreneurship” is available here: http://www.infodevgf.net/