ICANN Community Excellence Award: Now Accepting Nominations

[Yien Chyn Tan]

Dear APAC Space members, 

 

Nominations for the ICANN Community Excellence Award are now open until 8 January 2026 23:59 UTC. Launched in 2014, this Award recognizes ICANN community members who have deeply invested in consensus-based solutions and contributed substantively to the ICANN multistakeholder model. The award recipient(s) will be announced in March 2026 at ICANN85 in Mumbai, India.

 

The ideal recipient(s) will have:

• Participated in the ICANN community for at least five years.
• Served in multiple ICANN working groups or committees.
• Collaborated with more than one Supporting Organization (SO) and/or Advisory Committee (AC) in a significant capacity.

 

Please submit your nominations via this form. Self-nominations will not be considered. More details, including how to submit your nominations, can be found on the ICANN announcement and on the ICANN Community Wiki. Any questions about the award process or requests for additional information in support of nominations may be submitted via email to excellenc...@icann.org.

 

Thank you. 

 

Regards,

Yien Chyn Tan

Director, Stakeholder Engagement, APAC

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)