2026-02-26 APRALO Policy Forum Webinar Series on A Multilingual Internet: Webinar #1: Multilingual Domain Names

Date: Thursday, 26 February 2026

Time: 06:00 - 07:15 UTC (for the time in various time zones click here)

Zoom Registration: https://icann.zoom.us/meeting/register/s9U1A2ZPQLikjaaT8qp4mg

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Zoom Recording: EN

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Participants: Gopal Tadepalli, Justine Chew, Ashutosh Maharaj, Charbel Chbeir, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Joly MacFie, Kenechukwu Okekenta, Satish Babu, Einas Al Shaikh, Veronica Deutrom, Akshat Joshi, Charles Mok, Pramod Dhungana, Faheem Soomro, Juliana Harsianti, Aftab Siddiqui, Abdullah Qamar, Mohammad Abdul Haque Anu, Jay Paudyal, Enerst Mafuta Katoka, Maureen Hilyard, Christabel Mebaghandu, Shita Laksmi, Amrita Choudhury, Manas Joshi, Pawan Kumar, Kasun Tharaka Wickramasuriya, Kapil Goyal, Dr. Vladimer Svanadze, Phyo Thiri Lwin, Bikram Shrestha, Iqbal Ahmed, Valentine Melkudi, Mansur Mirzoev, K Mohan Raidu, Azeem Sajjad

Apologies: None

Staff: Sarmad Hussain, Pitinan Kooarmornpatana, Gisella Gruber, Yeşim Sağlam

Call Management: Yeşim Sağlam

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The APRALO Policy Forum is delighted to present the first of the series of 3 webinars to introduce ICANN’s goal for a “Multilingual Internet” and its engagement of relevant stakeholders to deliver this goal.

You are invited to Webinar #1: Multilingual Domain Names on 26 February 2026 at 06:00 UTC for 75 minutes, where Gopal Tadepalli will host Pitinan Kooarmornpatana, IDN Programs Director, ICANN in an introduction to Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and a guided exercise on how to develop a Label Generation Rules (LGR) which is a key technical requirement for enabling IDNs.

If you are unfamiliar with IDNs and wonder how ICANN engages language communities around the world to make the Internet truly multilingual, then join us and get your answers! 

Don't forget to pre-register your participation! And if you have any, please let us have your questions on this topic by posting them as comments to this wiki page below; or if you prefer, submit them by emailing staff at staff@atlarge.icann.org

1. Staff introduction - Staff (1 min)

2. Welcome and introduction - Gopal Tadepalli (1 min) 

3. Session content - Pitinan Kooarmornpatana (60 mins) -

4. Q&A / Discussion - moderated by Gopal Tadepalli (10 mins)

5. Poll (2 mins) - Staff

6. Wrap up - Gopal Tadepalli (1 min)

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Pitinan Kooarmornpatana is a Computer Engineer professional. Pitinan joined ICANN in August 2017 as an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Programs Manager. She is currently focused on facilitating various Script Generation Panels to develop the Label Generation Rules proposals for the root zone. She previously worked as a Director of Information Technology Infrastructure Office in the Electronic Transactions Development Agency, in Thailand. Prior to that, she worked as a Business Analyst at Accenture, and has worked on projects for both public and private sectors in Thailand, Singapore and Philippines. Pitinan holds a Master of Information System and Management from Carnegie Mellon University in USA. She is passionate in enabling the effective and efficient use of Information Technology for everyone through technology localization.

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Gopal V. Tadepalli is currently Adjunct Professor, Mahindra University, Hyderabad. His career has been with Anna University, Chennai with which he has an association from February 1988 to June 2025 until retirement on superannuation. Dr. T V Gopal has published around 100 Research Papers. He has written FOUR books and Co-Edited ELEVEN Conference Proceedings. He is actively associated with many professional societies such as CSI, ICANN, IFIP WG 9.2, IEEE and ACM India Council.  Dr. T V Gopal is also serving as Director, Centre for Applied Research in Indic Technologies [CARIT], Anna University @ https://www.annauniv.edu/CARIT/ For the full profile, please visit: https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/57545