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Universal Acceptance now on Wikipedia...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Acceptance
by Don Hollander July 9, 2020

July 9, 2020

A nice way to end a fairly productive year. Plans coming up: There will be a Universal Acceptance gathering on Monday the 8th of January in Hong Kong with the Hong Kong IT Community. This is being organised by .asia, ISOC HK and UASG. If you’ve not yet received an invitation but will be in Hong Kong that afternoon, please let me know and we’ll organise one. 15:00 - 18:00 at the Sheraton. The UASG Coordination Group will be meeting on Tuesday the 9th of January and the morning of the 10th if necessary, also in Hong Kong. The agenda will be out next week. Full remote participation will be available if there’s interest. There will be a meeting of EAI operators on the 11th and 12th in Guangzhou, China, hosted by Coremail and CNNIC. If you are an EAI practitioner and would like to participate and have not otherwise registered, please let me know. I expect that we’ll have remote participation facilities. The UASG is expecting another UA Workshop on Day 0 of the ICANN meeting in Puerto Rico as well as a public update session during the week. Dates and venues still to be confirmed. Happy New Year to everyone. If you’re out celebrating, please get home safe. Don Don Hollander Universal Acceptance Steering Group www.uasg.tech don.hollander(a)icann.org Skype: don_hollander

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UA Engagements at ICANN65
by Sarmad Hussain June 21, 2019

June 21, 2019

Dear All, The following UA related interactions are planned for ICANN65: At Large Universal Acceptance (UA) Kickoff 8:30 - 10:15, Wed, Jun 26, 2019 Toubkal (ALAC) https://65.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1058226 GAC: Meeting with Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) and GAC Subsequent Rounds of gTLDs Next Steps Discussion 13:30 - 15:00, Thu, Jun 27, 2019 Cristal (GAC) https://65.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1058193 Cross-Community High Interest Topic Policies Around Universal Acceptance 17:00 - 18:30, Thu, Jun 27, 2019 Cristal (GAC) https://65.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1058196 We look forward to your participation. Regards, Sarmad

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Invitation to Join working groups
by Dr. Ajay Data June 16, 2019

June 16, 2019

Dear colleagues, We are excited to share with you that the UASG leadership team has recently reviewed the comments and is in the process of finalizing the FY20 Action Plan shared with you all earlier (and posted at UASG.tech). We all are passionate to bring next billion people online and UA has pivotal role to achieve this goal. This can not be achieved without everyone contributing to the common action plan. Based on this plan, we would like to continue the existing working groups (WGs) and set up some new ones, which will be meeting regularly to translate the plan into real work and results on the ground. We anticipate that much of the work of UASG will continue to be undertaken by us through these working groups. The working groups include: Technology WG - Plans, coordinates and oversees work on standards, best current practices, programming languages, development tools and development platforms. Email Address Internationalization (EAI) WG - Plans, executes and oversees engagement with email software and service providers to make them EAI Ready Communications WG – Plans and develops communication strategy and oversee its execution, in collaboration with other WGs Measurements WG – Plans, oversees and directs the measurement efforts for UA readiness I am reaching out to invite you to join one or more of these working groups, based on your interests, to help in creating the relevant awareness and support for UA Readiness with the stakeholders identified. Please share your intent to join one or more WGs at https://forms.gle/GsASQhJA5rrGg6kF9 and start contributing. We really look forward to your support. Regards, Dr. Ajay Data Chair - UASG -- Sent from my Android device with XGenPlus.

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Salute to Don Hollander
by Ajay Data June 8, 2019

June 8, 2019

Hello Few years before, When I was invited to speak in ICANN to talk about EAI, since than I had pleasure of working with Don, witnessing the dedication, team spirit and focused approach for Universal Acceptance Steering Group. I was witnessing all this as a volunteer and than I was given an opportunity to be EAI co-ordinator of UASG. This allowed me to work more closely with Don to see words of wisdom and real passion in action. UASG is for everyone and making positive difference in billions of life is not an easy task. You have played an inning which is not only exemplary but your dedication, your sense of humour, your focus, and most importantly, your friendly relationship with everyone will be cherished forever. Don, You are an inspiration to me and I am so blessed to have working with you. Here is a Salute <https://uasg.tech/2019/05/uasg-salutes-don-hollander-for-his-contributions/ > to you from UASG. Thank you Don for everything. Dr. Ajay Data Chair - UASG

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