AFRALO Universal Acceptance Training Sessions 2022 

On behalf of AFRALO’s Chair, Seun Ojedeji, kindly see message below:

The "AFRALO UA Training Sessions" was a joint effort between AFRALO, ICANN, and the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), designed to increase Universal Acceptance (UA) awareness across the African region. This training program consisted of two sessions held in May and November 2022 covering key topics such as “Introduction to IDNs and how ICANN Community helped for multilingual Internet”, “Introduction to UA of domain names and email addresses”,  work to be done to promote UA, encouraging volunteering, informing about how panels work.  The Sessions included quiz interactive questions about IDNs/ Integration Panels / variants / security issues / etc. Over 50 participants from AFRALO and the African region participated in each of these training sessions.

Details and session recordings can be found at the following url:

First session: https://community.icann.org/display/AFRALO/2022-05-10+AFRALO+Universal+Acceptance+Training+Session+1

Second Session: https://community.icann.org/display/AFRALO/2022-11-17+AFRALO+Universal+Acceptance+Training+Session+2

Special thanks to ICANN staff subject matter experts Seda Akbulut and Pitinan Kooarmornpatana who participated in delivering the training and shared their knowledge and experiences. Our appreciation to the Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) team and At-Large staff who collaborated in the organization of the training. The sessions were Interpreted in French and English.

AFRALO is very proud to collaborate with the UASG and the ICANN org in the promotion of UA in Africa. To all parties involved in the successful 2022 AFRALO Training Program, please receive our sincere congratulations.

For more information on AFRALO, please visit here

Thank you very much!

Seun Ojedeji

AFRALO Chair

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