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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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------