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title: ICANN sign up form
tags: ICANN camp
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# Sign up form
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## (9)State reasons why you wish to participate in this workshop. (max. 1,500 characters)

I am an outgoing adventurer who enjoys exploring the world. I always envy graduate students who can attend academic conferences in many countries, learning up-to-date technologies, knowing intelligent experts, and experiencing various local cultures. To achieve that, I was told to study hard, do good researches, publish papers in conferences, and then I can get grants to support my travel.

This year, because of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, many international meetings were held virtually on the Internet. My professor told me this is a rare opportunity because many virtual meetings become free to attend, and I can save time/money for inter-continental travel.

My professor took this opportunity to (virtually) bring me to attend several meetings, such as the ICANN 68 Virtual Policy Forum in June, WAIGF (West Africa Internet Governance Forum) in July, and the upcoming APAN 50 (Asia Pacific Advanced Network) in August.

I feel fascinated in attending these international meetings. The whole world seems to open a new window in front of me. By listening to those speeches given by experts around the world, I learned quite a lot of knowledge about technology, management, and policy. When my professor told me there is an ICANN Camp in Taiwan that NCC may want to choose some young scholars and further sponsor them to attend these international meetings in the future, I immediately made up my mind to attend this ICANN Camp.

## (10)Explain how you expect this experience may benefit you, your organization and/or the community that you belong to, if selected. (max. 1,500 characters)

Representing as the Vice Chair of ACM Student Chapter in National Chi Nan University, our goal is to promote a means of communication between persons having an interest in computing and networking, and to increase knowledge of greater interest in the design, development, construction, management and applications of modern computing and communication. As mentioned in several recent IGF meetings, the Internet has become a huge part of our daily lives. Under the COVID-19 pandemic, many regions were locked down, and people rely on the Internet to work, to communicate with their friends, and even to order daily supplies. As a normal user, I may not be fully aware of the technologies and policy issues behind the Internet world. However, as a student major in computer science, I would like to learn more about the technologies about how to keep the Internet operate smoothly, and the policy issues to manage the Internet efficiently. As the representative of our ACM Student Chapter, we would like to contribute our expertise to help the community getting familiar with international policy organizations like ICANN.

## (11)Have you previously participated in ICANN meeting or any local/regional/global Internet Governance fora such as TWIGF or APrIGF? If yes, please state where and share your involvement/experience. (max. 1,500 characters)

I previously participated in the West Africa Internet Governance Forum (WAIGF) during July 22nd- 24th, 2020. I was thrilled to see so many experts from Africa, and I certainly learned a lot from their speeches. For example, Mme THIAM from the Ministry of Digital Economy Senegal talked about the "Poverty Education Program", to help poor people getting access to the Internet and utilize the Internet to improve their education and lives. Dr. Kossi from African ICT Foundation mentioned that in order to maintain a healthy Internet world, the government should neither implement regulations that are too strict, nor ignore the Internet completely.

Because French is more popular than English in Africa, one major topic in the meeting is about Internationalized Domain Name (IDN). It is pointed out that half of the population throughout the world do not speak English as their mother tongue, so IDN would definitely be a great fortune to the world. I have seen an document (RFC 3743) about the IDN registration and administration for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This RFC receives the congratulations from the IESG as a good example for policy enforcement. I strongly believe that this kind of successful experience in Taiwan will benefit the African region as more people and organizations are embracing the Internet, especially when the demand of IDN increases.

## (12)Have you done any work related to ICANN and/or Internet Governance? If yes, please explain. (max. 1,500 characters)

I attended ICANN 68 Virtual Policy Forum. From the GAC DNS Abuse Mitigation session. I was surprised to learn that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many domain names in “.coronavirus”, “.covid”, “.pandemic” were used to create phishing websites. Many naive people were vulnerable during this pandemic. Moreover, it was pointed out that 65% of registrations were hidden behind privacy proxy services. However, the speaker stated that it is quite difficult to opt out privacy proxy services and that ICANN still doesn't have a policy in place despite it now becomes clear that the PDP will not address this issue. Since it takes time to get to the data behind the privacy proxy using traditional processes, this might delay any actions that can be taken consequently. This policy issue is what I hope to study and contribute in the future.

## (13)Tell us more about yourself.(max. 1,500 characters)

Since I was in high school, I have enjoyed visiting foreign countries and knowing people. When Lawrence S.Ting School from Vietnam visited my high school, I presented our astronomy project on behalf of my team. After that, I went to Torrey Pines High School in California and spent one year as an exchange student. In that school we organized a festival to demonstrate delicious Taiwanese food. To see my American friends devour traditional Taiwanese fried rice/noodle, and the smiles on their faces after they finish all the food, is really a cheerful experience. This summer the ACM Student Chapter in my university (NCNU) delegated a team to attend a contest hosted by Singapore National Supercomputer Center (NSCC). I was elected as the team leader who is responsible to negotiate with NSCC and arrange all related logistics. All these experiences strengthens my belief that I enjoy team work, especially organizing team members to make each one doing their best. I enjoy participating public affairs, especially negotiating and discussing how policies should be made to benefit the community all. I have strong confidence that participating in this ICANN Camp will broaden my horizon, and my capability will contribute the community as well.