1) Objective:

The UA Project is a joint effort between AFRALO, ICANN GSE , and the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), designed to increase UA awareness across the African region and engage with technical stakeholders directly.

The project will organize two Webinar sessions to provide AFRALO members with an Introduction to the fundamentals of UA and its importance.

First Session: 10 May 2022 at 13:30 UTC

Second Session:


Did you know that the next billion Internet users will not be users of the Latin script? Learn how to reach them and prepare your systems now for the future Internet!

Universal Acceptance is key to achieving a digitally inclusive Internet by ensuring that all domain names and email addresses – regardless of script, language, or character length – are accepted equally by all Internet-enabled applications, devices, and systems. This includes supporting all country code top-level domains (ccTLDs), new and long generic top-level domains (gTLDs), and Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).

Sessions and  Presentations  


Sessions 

topic 

Instructors

Quizz and Webinar evaluation survey results


Session 1: 10 May 

Session 1 ZOOM recording 


Introduction to IDNs and how ICANN Community helped for multilingual Internet

Introduction to UA of domain names and email addresses 

See AGENDA for details.

Pitinan Kooarmornpatana 

Sarmad Hussain

Seda Akbulut 

Pierre Dandjinou

Bob Ochieng 






Session 2:  date TBC  

Session 2 ZOOM recording 





Glossary of Terms

IDN Glossary: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/glossary-2014-02-04-en

ICANN Glossary: https://www.icann.org/resources/en/glossary

New gTLD Glossary: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/glossary

IANA Glossary: https://www.iana.org/glossary


2) Resources on UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE 


Regional Universal Acceptance Training Programs

UASG website [uasg.tech]


3) Social media promotion:

 



 

  1. List of regional events
    1. 7-10 March 2022 :  ICANN73
    2. TBD : Africa Engagement Forum 2022 :  (tbc)
    3. 29 May – 10 June 2022 :  Africa Internet Summit  2022 
    4. 6-15 June 2022 :  WTDC (https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Conferences/WTDC/WTDC21/Pages/default.aspx [itu.int]) in Kigali (Rwanda)
    5. 13-16 June 2022 : ICANN74
    6. August 2022 : AFPIF 11  in  Kigali
    7. 17-22 September 2022 : ICANN75
    8. 14-18 Nov 2022 :  AFRINIC 36
    9. Last quarter 2022 :  Africa DNS Forum 2022 (date tbd)
    10. IGF dates :  tbc


ICANN LEARN UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE COURSE: See blog: Learn How You Can Help Build a More Digitally Inclusive Internet


3) AFRALO Universal Acceptance Training