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March 2020

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Historic ICANN67 and Update
by Dr Ajay Data March 14, 2020

March 14, 2020

Hello Everyone, We just completed historic ICANN67. ICANN67 must have been one of the largest online conference in the world. It takes a lot to organise such a massive conference in a very short period of time. I must congratulate Board and ICANN Org team to organise this event successfully. This has not only given lots of lessons to learn but also gave satisfaction of our capabilities to achieve very difficult goals . Fantastic team effort. Congratulations to entire ICANN team for this huge mile stone.Last year in March you elected the UA leadership and we have been working hard to work within the guidelines provided in charter to achieve the mission of Universal Acceptance - All domain names and all email addresses work in all software applications . Thank you for your trust and faith to give this responsibility and I feel its my duty to give you some important recap and updates which has been achieved during the year. UASG Leadership (see details) Chair: Ajay Data Vice-Chair: Dennis Tan Tanaka Vice Chair: Dusan Stojicevic Vice Chair: Mark Svancarek UASG working groups and their chairs (join UASG WGs) UA Technology WG &ndash Chair: Satish Babu, Vice-Chair: Dessalegn Yehuala UA Email Address Internationalization WG &ndash Chair: Mark Svancarek, Vice-Chair: T. Santhosh UA Measurement WG &ndash Chair: Dennis Tan Tanaka UA Communications WG &ndash Chair: Rahul Gosain, Vice-Chair: Lilian Ivette UA Local Initiatives WG &ndash Chair: Ajay Datai. Commonwealth of Independent States and Easter Europe &ndash Chair Maria Kolesnikova Work completed or under-progress based on the FY20 Action Plan (T = Technology E = EAI M = Measurement C = Communications L = Local Initiatives) T1 - Define UA Readiness (UASG026) T6 - Determine the evaluation criteria for choosing Frameworks and Programming Languages T7 - Review and Revised Existing Programming Language Evaluation Criteria T9 - Execute review for 20 most popular Open Source Programming Language Libraries and utilities. Identification done by the Technology Working Group T11 - Identify and sponsor suitable Hackathons to get Internet Infrastructure applications made UA Ready. T13 - Develop Training Materials for technology training for UA Readiness T15 - Participate in the development of Communications and Training Material, Presentations, etc . E1 - Oversee the review or development of training material for EAI E2 - Oversee the EAI Evaluation Efforts E4 - Experience EAI with Free email accounts M1 - Create measures for assessing the UA &amp EAI Readiness of the Internet M4 - Evaluate the UA Readiness of different genres of applications &minusEmail, Programming Languages and Frameworks, Ecommerce Platforms M5 - Evaluation of UA Readiness of popular Websites (Global and Targeted Geographies) C5 - Prepare at least six Case Studies on different types of organizations who have pursued Universal Acceptance. C7 - Oversee the regular review of all UASG published documents and research reports. Update as appropriate C8 - Review the content and structure of the UASG.tech website on an annual basis C9 - Fund hosting and maintenance of the UASG website C11 - Produce materials (printing, design) C12 - Organize Strategic Communications Partner C14 -Provide support and encouragement for Global and Regional IGFs and Schools of Internet Governance (Participated in IGF, also with DC-DNSI) C15 - Organize regular meetings of the UA Ambassadors C17 - The UASG to maintain a social media presence C19 - Leveraging ICANN&rsquos Global communications team, the UASG will look to have at least 6 media messages, for each region, each year C20 - Translation of content, including relevant reports and case studies, in languages identified L1 - Procure a local facilitator L2 - Organize face-to-face meeting of the local coordination/advisory group L4 - Get UA Topics included in local fora and publications UA Ambassadors (see details) Yazid Akanho, Benin Harish Chowdhary, India Mark W. Datysgeld, Brazil Abdalmonem Galila, Egypt John Levine, USA Zhijiang Liu, China Yangyi Wu (Walter Wu), China Xiucheng Wu (Marvin Woo), China Recent Statements of Work developed by WGs (posted here) UA Readiness Evaluation of Programming Languages and Development Frameworks Evaluation of Email Software and Services which Announce EAI Support UA-Readiness of Open-Source Code (Pilot) FY20 Action Plan with budget Website and contacts: https://uasg.tech UASG: info(a)uasg.tech UA at ICANN: UAProgram(a)icann.org Test your email here for EAI support Log a UA related issue here Effective cross-functional collaboration is an essential element for success of UASG mission. Specific support particularly from At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) and LACRALO is being provided along with ICANN org functions including Communications, Global Stakeholder Engagement, and Government Engagement are helping to raise awareness of UA . My presentation during ICANN67 to update the community also covered some of the above and as everyone could not join the online meeting, above is the update for your knowledge. In last one year we have made some significant decisions and progress. We wished more however we are fully charged up to accomplish many goals and make some visible and impactful progress in the days to come. Best Wishes Dr. Ajay DataChair - UASG [XGENFOOTER] [-XGENFOOTER] Do not Remove: [HID]20200313215015336[-HID]

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UA related sessions at ICANN67
by Sarmad Hussain March 8, 2020

March 8, 2020

Dear All, Kindly note the following UA sessions are scheduled for ICANN67: * UA: Technology and Internationalized Email WGs<https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152573> <https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152573> Monday 1045-1215, 9 March<https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152573> * UA: Local Initiative and Ambassador WGs <https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152577> Wednesday 1045-1215, 11 March<https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152577> * UA: Communications and Coordination WGs <https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152580> Thursday 1045-1215, 12 March<https://67.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1152580> (all times are reflected in UTC-5 timezone). We hope many of you will be able to join. Regards, Sarmad

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