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Re: [UA-discuss] 2023 UASG Vice Chair Election Results
by mahaksogani25 April 25, 2023

April 25, 2023

Congratulations to all the new Vice-Chairs.Regards,Mahak Jain Jaipur, India (Rajasthan)DATA XGEN TECHNOLOGIES Sent from my Galaxy

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UASG 2023 Vice-Chair Election
by Seda Akbulut April 24, 2023

April 24, 2023

Dear UASG members, The UASG Vice-Chair election will be open from 7 April 2023 to 17 April 2023. When the voting period starts, you will receive an email from noreply(a)eballot.com<mailto:noreply@eballot.com>. Please make sure you whitelist this address, and you have sufficient storage in your mailbox to receive the voting URL. If you don’t receive the email after 7 April, please check your SPAM box. As per the voting method<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/UASG-Election-Process-2023-onw…>, each individual has a single vote for this election from any of the email addresses of his or her choice, in case he or she has registered to UA-Discuss mailing list with more than one email address. Any other votes, if found, will be considered void. Kindly note that the eligible voters will be the subscribers of the UA-Discuss mailing list 48 hours before the announcing the call for nominations for the election, any new subscribers joining after the election announcement date will not participate in the voting process. Thank you for your contribution. Seda Akbulut UA Program Manager Global Domains and Strategy Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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2023 UASG Elections and Vice-Chair Candidates
by Seda Akbulut April 10, 2023

April 10, 2023

Dear Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Community, On behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), we are pleased to share the self-nominations of candidates for the 2023 UASG vice-chair election as per the UASG charter<https://uasg.tech/uasg-charter/> and Election Process available at https://uasg.tech/operational-documents/. Candidates (in alphabetical order): * Abdalmonem Galila * Haixin Duan * Nabil_Benamar * Nitin Walia * U B Pavanaja Their Statements of Interest (SOI) are attached. The voting period will start on 7th April 2023, and will end on 17th April 2023. Eligible voters, the subscribers of the UA-Discuss mailing list 48 hours before the announcing the call for nominations for the election, should expect an email from eballot.com when the voting period starts. If you do not receive email from eballot.com, please check your SPAM folder. If you have any queries, feel free to contact us at info(a)uasg.tech<mailto:info@uasg.tech>. Kind regards, UASG Election Coordination Team

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Request for speakers
by Amina Ramallan April 6, 2023

April 6, 2023

Good day all, I am a member of the Youth IGF and this year I plan on submitting a proposal for a session at the upcoming Global IGF scheduled to take place in October at Japan. The proposed topic is UA and its influence on the digital divide and bringing the next billion users online. As this is going to the submitted via the youth platform, it will be amazing if the speakers are of a diverse age, thereby encouraging an intergenerational dialogue on the panel. Kindly note that there is room for two moderators but I will be putting my name down as a moderator, so the second slot is still available. I hereby humbly request for volunteer speakers, rapporteurs and one moderator from all over the world who would like to work together on this topic during the IGF, if the proposal gets selected. Looking forward to your positive responses in my inbox. Thank you Amina Ramallan Nigerian Communications Commission

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2023 UASG Chair Election Results
by Seda Akbulut April 4, 2023

April 4, 2023

2023 UASG Chair Election Results Dear Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Community, On behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), we are pleased to announce the results of the 2023 UASG chair election. As the UASG charter<https://uasg.tech/uasg-charter/> indicates, the UASG will be “overseen by one Chair and two to three Vice-Chairs who will be appointed to two-year terms.” Interested candidates for the Chair position were asked to submit self-nominations and Statements of Interest by 3 March 2023 through the announcement<https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ua-discuss/2023-February/004181.html>. The UASG received two nominations for Chair. Based on the nominations and the following elections, following are the election results. UASG Chair for 2023-2025 (two years) A total of 244 UASG members cast their vote. Based on these votes, the following has been elected: * UASG Chair: Anil Kumar Jain The SOI of the elected chair is attached. We congratulate the new UASG Chair. The successor chair will take office once the vice chair elections are completed on 25 April 2023. Thank you. UASG Election Coordination Team

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What does the word "Day" in "UA Day" mean?
by Jim DeLaHunt April 4, 2023

April 4, 2023

Looking at the list of Universal Acceptance (UA) Day events at <https://uasg.tech/ua-day/>, I see they have dates ranging from 22 Feb 2023 to 24 May 2023. That is a span of more than three months. What does the word "Day" in the phrase "UA Day" mean exactly? -- --Jim DeLaHunt, jdlh(a)jdlh.com http://blog.jdlh.com/ (http://jdlh.com/) multilingual websites consultant, Vancouver, Canada

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Question for UASG Chair candidates: what are strategic obstacles blocking UA?
by Anil Jain March 30, 2023

March 30, 2023

Dear Jim and all UASG Community Members Jim, thank you for your email and for putting this question. Since you already mentioned that I am committed to Universal Acceptance and have a track record of working diligently to attain that objective, I will not place my words here to share more on this to you and the rest of the community about this; rather, I will respond directly to your question. Because identifying and addressing difficulties and hurdles requires work and coordination among many stakeholder groups, the response below is entirely in my individual capacity. According to me, the most significant strategic hurdles currently impeding Universal Acceptance are: Feeling of Urgency : I believe we need to "generate a sense of urgency," which means motivating stakeholders to take appropriate independent action. UASG and ICANN's activities should be educational and proactive, advocating for the necessary activity to attain universal acceptance. The primary goal of ICANN will be to connect those who have impediments with those who can eliminate them, an action on this has already been initiated, and we will soon see some development on it. Clear Goal : The requirement of the hour is that domain names in a TLD be used in applications independent of the written script, length, or newness of the TLD. Name registration must function, protocols must function, and services/applications affecting the user must function; function also in the sense that domain names and the identifiers constructed on them are usable in administratively permissible ways. This goal includes the usefulness of Internationalised email addresses, an action on this has already been initiated, and if you will see that today all IDN domains which we from NIXI provides are completely usable from day one as we are providing email with every IDN domain name and also other services required around that. Not just that we also have a dedicated UA desk to listen the concerns form the registrants and try to provide them support. UA's demand-side characteristics: Universal Acceptance is a crucial technical prerequisite for an Internet that is truly multilingual and inclusive. It is also essential for realising the full potential of Internationalized Domain Names, Email Address Internationalization, and new generic Top-Level Domains. Application developers and service providers are delaying making their systems UA-ready due to the demand-side components of UA, which must be addressed. Governments and the technical community will be essential in creating demand. To get a sense of the importance of Universal Acceptance, consider India. It has one of the fastest growing internet user populations on the planet and provides an illuminating case study on adoptions of universal acceptance. Since 2014 NIXI is managing 22 IDNs of India and I am CEO of NIXI. I am pleased to share with you that as per the directives of government a committee was formed under my chairmanship here in India to prepare an India Roadmap on Universal Acceptance and Multilingual Internet, and that the Phase 1 report of that committee is now being under implementation in India. [ https://registry.in/system/files/ua-and-multilingual-internet-india.pdf | https://registry.in/system/files/ua-and-multilingual-internet-india.pdf ] To summarise, I am confident that we will all recognise that, aside from the founding visionaries of the UASG, the current leadership of the UASG has carried forward the UA work from their successors in a significant way in the last four years, we have significant participation and contributions from the community in the universal acceptance steering group by nearly 700 volunteers, significant technological development has occurred in recent years, and there is still much to be done to achieve universal acceptance. Even the present leadership team came up with the idea for UA Day, which will be celebrated for the first time on March 28, 2023. Current UASG leadership has done a wonderful work to bring all the stakeholders together to celebrate UA day including all SO/AC of ICANN. With my experience as Communication Chair of UASG , we were successful to raise the awareness of importance that's why 42 countries are celebrating UA day on 28th March. We must continue the good work started by Ram Mohan & team and wings provided by Dr. Ajay Data and team. With kind regards, Anil Kumar Jain

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Re: [UA-discuss] UA-discuss Digest, Vol 155, Issue 1
by Carine Malor March 30, 2023

March 30, 2023

Congratulations Anil. Wishing you the best in your new role. Carine Malor Accra, Ghana. On Thu, 30 Mar 2023, 12:00 , <ua-discuss-request(a)icann.org> wrote: > Send UA-discuss mailing list submissions to > ua-discuss(a)icann.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/ua-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ua-discuss-request(a)icann.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ua-discuss-owner(a)icann.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of UA-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. 2023 UASG Chair Election Results (Seda Akbulut) > 2. UASG Elections 2023 - Accepting Vice-Chair Self-Nominations > (Seda Akbulut) > 3. Re: 2023 UASG Chair Election Results (Satish Babu) > 4. Re: 2023 UASG Chair Election Results (Mohammad Kawsar Uddin) > 5. Re: 2023 UASG Chair Election Results (Priyatosh Jana) > 6. Re: 2023 UASG Chair Election Results (Nitin) > 7. Re: 2023 UASG Chair Election Results (Jahangir Hossain) > 8. Re: 2023 UASG Chair Election Results (Raymond Mamattah) > 9. Re: 2023 UASG Chair Election Results (NABIL BENAMAR) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:55:37 +0000 > From: Seda Akbulut <seda.akbulut(a)icann.org> > To: "ua-discuss(a)icann.org" <ua-discuss(a)icann.org> > Subject: [UA-discuss] 2023 UASG Chair Election Results > Message-ID: <A432D352-81D2-4F92-8C94-9240C5BA30F7(a)icann.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 2023 UASG Chair Election Results > > Dear Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Community, > > On behalf of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), we are > pleased to announce the results of the 2023 UASG chair election. As the > UASG charter<https://uasg.tech/uasg-charter/> indicates, the UASG will be > ?overseen by one Chair and two to three Vice-Chairs who will be appointed > to two-year terms.? > > Interested candidates for the Chair position were asked to submit > self-nominations and Statements of Interest by 3 March 2023 through the > announcement< > https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ua-discuss/2023-February/004181.html>. The > UASG received two nominations for Chair. Based on the nominations and the > following elections, following are the election results. > > UASG Chair for 2023-2025 (two years) > > A total of 244 UASG members cast their vote. Based on these votes, the > following has been elected: > > > * UASG Chair: Anil Kumar Jain > > The SOI of the elected chair is attached. We congratulate the new UASG > Chair. The successor chair will take office once the vice chair elections > are completed on 25 April 2023. > > Thank you. > UASG Election Coordination Team > > >

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UASG Elections 2023 - Accepting Vice-Chair Self-Nominations
by Seda Akbulut March 29, 2023

March 29, 2023

Dear Universal Acceptance (UA) Community Members, As per the Election Process and Timeline<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/UASG-Election-Process-2023-onw…>, self-nominations for UASG Vice-Chair Election will end on 31 March 2023. Interested candidates should send a self-nomination with a Statement of Interest (SOI) to the email: UAprogram(a)icann.org<mailto:UAprogram@icann.org> before 23:00 UTC on 31 March 2023 for Vice-Chair position. For more information, please see the announcement<https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/ua-discuss/2023-February/004181.html>. Kind regards, Thank you. UASG Election Coordination Team

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UA Day - Global Event Joining details
by Dr Ajay Data March 28, 2023

March 28, 2023

Hello Friend, March 28th marks Universal Acceptance Day (UA Day) and the world is coming together to raise awareness about the importance of Universal Acceptance (UA). UASG efforts to promote UA and ensure everyone can access the internet equally are likely to make significant impact. Universal Acceptance is the idea that all domain names and email addresses, regardless of the script or language they are written in, should be treated equally. This means that websites, email providers, and other online services should be able to recognize and accept all domain names and email addresses, including those in non-Latin scripts. This year’s UA Day global event is being hosted in India by the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI, lead by CEO Anil Kumar Jain), which manages 22 Indian language domain names and the .in top-level domain. India is a country where UA is particularly important, with over 22 official languages and a diverse population that requires equal access to online services. Minister of Electronics & IT and Railways Ashwani Vaishnav ji and State Minister of Electronics &;IT Rajeev Chandrashekhar ji are going to inaugurate the UA day from India. Secretary Ministry of Electronics and IT Sh. Alkesh Sharma ji wrote an article on UA which was published today in India’s leading news portal. Link is below. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/why-universal-acceptance-i… Below are some links to important sessions happening for UA day and everyone globally can access and take part in this historical movement. 27th March 2023 Curtain Raiser @ 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM IST Join: https://nixi1.webex.com/nixi1/j.php?MTID=mde3bec7b5838885d778aea0063422bff Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/bpuGM7Z5M1U?feature=share 28th March 2023 Inaugural @ 10:15 AM- 11:15 AM IST Join: https://nixi1.webex.com/nixi1/j.php?MTID=m335957dea712ec5145fccdd21f56067c Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/xXeI7iMPbr0?feature=share Valedictory Session @ 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM IST Join: https://nixi1.webex.com/nixi1/j.php?MTID=m46d31cb302bb266309f6303ed56d9799 Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/MSsif0yV348?feature=share You may visit https://globaluaday.in/ for more detailed agenda and links to access the event. I look forward for your participation in Global UA day event and also nearby event to you which can be found on UASG.tech website. Please spread the knowledge about this UA day event as much as possible. I must thank everyone involved to make this happen , an Idea turned into reality with largest multistakeholder event. See you soon physically or virtually. Best wishes. Dr. Ajay Data Chair – UA Day @ajaydata on twitter -- Sent from my Android device with XGen Email.

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