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DiploFoundation is a non-profit organization based in Malta, with offices in Geneva and Belgrade. Diplo works to strengthen the meaningful participation of all stakeholders in diplomatic practice and international relations. DiploFoundation offers postgraduate level academic courses and training workshops on a variety of diplomacy-related topics for diplomats, civil servants, staff of international organizations and NGOs and students of international relations; as well as capacity building programmes for participants from developing countries in a number of topics including Internet Governance, Human Rights, Public Diplomacy and Advocacy, and Health Diplomacy. Diplo has trained around 1650 students from more than 180 countries so far.

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Acronym of the Week

Public Interest Commitments (PICs) as related to new gTLD applicants and the Registry Agreement they are to sign, is a term and creation directly from ICANN, first suggested on February 5th, 2013, in ICANN's revised new registry agreement that it opened for public comments.

Statements on the IANA Transition

On 1 October 2016, 18 years after the creation of ICANN, it's contract with the United States Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration expired, marking the official transition of the oversight of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority to the global multistakeholder community. Read some of the statements from some of the organizations that were so instrumental in this historical moment.

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  ICANN's Statement
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  ISOC's Statement
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  IETF's Statement
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  ARIN's Statement

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  RIPE NCC's Statement

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