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[B Holroyd <beeline AT mindspring.com>]

-- I've now received my ICANN PIN, months and months after applying....
-- I've asked the "Stump the Geeks" guys at the N&O to explain ICANN in
such a way that ordinary folks will understand why it matters.... (I think
it seriously needs to be brought onto the public radar screen.)
-- Here are some numbers, thanks to Declan McCullagh and the politech
list....

Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> ICANN's at-large election process is underway. Below are the ICANN at-large
> members as of May 22.
> 
> Germany's weekly "Der Spiegel" is running a kind of voter-registration
> campaign, which explains the surprisingly high numbers for Germany:
>    http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/icann/
> The Bertelsmann Foundation is doing a similar thing:
>    http://www.democratic-internet.de/pages/english/home.html
> 
> Background:
>    http://www.icann.org/at-large/self-nomination.htm
> To register to vote (it's free, but you must provide a mailing address):
>    http://members.icann.org/join_now.htm
> 
> -Declan
> 
> **********
> 
>  >Total applications: 16,919
>  >
>  > Count Region
>  >
>  > 357 Africa
>  > 1832 Asia and Pacific
>  > 6775 Europe
>  > 325 Latin America and the Caribbean
>  > 7630 North America
> 
> ***********
> 
> 6,915  40.9%  United States
> 4,107  24.3%  Germany
>    715   4.2%  Canada
>    669   4.0%  United Kingdom
>    338   2.0%  Japan
>    331   2.0%  Korea, Republic of
>    323   1.9%  France
>    310   1.8%  Australia
>    232   1.4%  Switzerland
>    220   1.3%  Austria
>    200   1.2%  India
>    179   1.1%  Netherlands
>    144   0.9%  Italy
>    139   0.8%  Ireland
>    111   0.7%  Spain
>    101   0.6%  New Zealand
>     96   0.6%  Mexico
>     84   0.5%  Belgium
>     77   0.5%  France, Metropolitan
>     75   0.4%  Sweden
>     74   0.4%  Brazil
>     69   0.4%  Thailand
>     65   0.4%  Israel
>     62   0.4%  Malaysia
>     58   0.3%  Norway
>     56   0.3%  Benin
>     52   0.3%  Denmark
>     48   0.3%  Argentina
>     48   0.3%  Turkey
>     47   0.3%  South Africa
>     46   0.3%  Finland
>     41   0.2%  China
>     39   0.2%  Senegal
>     38   0.2%  Hong Kong
>     38   0.2%  Philippines
>     37   0.2%  Singapore
>     35   0.2%  Indonesia
>     35   0.2%  Romania
>     35   0.2%  Russian Federation
>     32   0.2%  Luxembourg
>     29   0.2%  Chile
>     28   0.2%  Greece
>     28   0.2%  Madagascar
>     26   0.2%  Egypt
>     25   0.1%  Portugal
>     23   0.1%  Niger
>     23   0.1%  United Arab Emirates
>     18   0.1%  Hungary
>     18   0.1%  Pakistan
>     18   0.1%  Taiwan
>     17   0.1%  Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
>     16   0.1%  Poland
>     13   0.1%  Afghanistan
>     13   0.1%  Burkina Faso
>     12   0.1%  Peru
>     12   0.1%  Venezuela
>     10   0.1%  Colombia
>      9   0.1%  Mali
>      9   0.1%  Mauritania
>      8   0.0%  Ghana
>      8   0.0%  Latvia
>      8   0.0%  Saudi Arabia
>      7   0.0%  Czech Republic
>      7   0.0%  Slovenia
>      7   0.0%  Tunisia
>      7   0.0%  Uganda
>      7   0.0%  Ukraine
>      6   0.0%  Nigeria
>      6   0.0%  Togo
>      5   0.0%  Albania
>      5   0.0%  Bulgaria
>      5   0.0%  Gabon
>      5   0.0%  Guinea
>      5   0.0%  Iceland
>      5   0.0%  Kenya
>      5   0.0%  Lebanon
>      5   0.0%  Mauritius
>      5   0.0%  Morocco
>      5   0.0%  Puerto Rico
>      4   0.0%  Cambodia
>      4   0.0%  Costa Rica
>      4   0.0%  Cyprus
>      4   0.0%  Kuwait
>      4   0.0%  United States Minor Outlying Islands
>      4   0.0%  Uruguay
>      4   0.0%  Zimbabwe
>      3   0.0%  Bangladesh
>      3   0.0%  Barbados
>      3   0.0%  Belarus
>      3   0.0%  Cameroon
>      3   0.0%  Croatia/Hrvatska
>      3   0.0%  Ecuador
>      3   0.0%  Estonia
>      3   0.0%  Ethiopia
>      3   0.0%  Gibraltar
>      3   0.0%  Iran
>      3   0.0%  Jordan
>      3   0.0%  Nicaragua
>      3   0.0%  Yugoslavia
>      2   0.0%  Algeria
>      2   0.0%  American Samoa
>      2   0.0%  Bahrain
>      2   0.0%  Bolivia
>      2   0.0%  Burundi
>      2   0.0%  Cayman Islands
>      2   0.0%  Dominican Republic
>      2   0.0%  Haiti
>      2   0.0%  Honduras
>      2   0.0%  Lithuania
>      2   0.0%  Mozambique
>      2   0.0%  Namibia
>      2   0.0%  Nepal
>      2   0.0%  Netherlands Antilles
>      2   0.0%  Qatar
>      2   0.0%  Samoa
>      2   0.0%  Slovakia
>      2   0.0%  Trinidad and Tobago
>      2   0.0%  Viet Nam
>      1   0.0%  Angola
>      1   0.0%  Antigua and Barbuda
>      1   0.0%  Bahamas
>      1   0.0%  Bosnia and Herzegowina
>      1   0.0%  Cape Verde
>      1   0.0%  Chad
>      1   0.0%  Cote D'Ivoire
>      1   0.0%  Eritrea
>      1   0.0%  Georgia
>      1   0.0%  Guyana
>      1   0.0%  Lao People's Democratic Republic
>      1   0.0%  Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
>      1   0.0%  Liechtenstein
>      1   0.0%  Malta
>      1   0.0%  Moldova
>      1   0.0%  Monaco
>      1   0.0%  New Caledonia
>      1   0.0%  Niue
>      1   0.0%  Northern Mariana Islands
>      1   0.0%  Panama
>      1   0.0%  Rwanda
>      1   0.0%  San Marino
>      1   0.0%  Sri Lanka
>      1   0.0%  Sudan
>      1   0.0%  Tuvalu
> 
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