Dears,

                I hope my email finds you well, yesterday meeting seems to be a good start for ccNSO UAC with passionate diverse of volunteers supported by a great ICANN staff.

Based on yesterday discussion regards to UAC chair and vice-chair nominations , I ‘d like to nominate myself for the UAC chair position and below is my short bio as well as my

views how could it goes for ccTLDs to start being UA ready.

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Abdalmonem Gallia’s professional career started at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology where he held several roles including technical lead

on several projects in many governmental organizations and engaged with ICANN activities since 2010. He is the first-ever recipient of the ICANN’s Tarek Kamel

Fellowship Recognition.

Currently, Gallia holds the position of Numbering Planning Manager at the National Telecom Regulatory Authority of EGYPT, Numbering Affairs department

responsible for operating and maintaining the .masr (.مصر) IDN ccTLD of Egypt.

As an ICANN community member, Galila has been an active Internet evangelist at various forums such as the ME DNS Forum,

Universal Acceptance Steering Group, AFRALO, ME-Space , *TLDs and *IGF.

Galila holds many roles at ICANN, like GAC alternative representative of Egypt, vice chair of UASG Email Address Internationalization WG, UA ambassador for the 5 Year, (.مصر)

IDN ccTLD representative of Egypt at ccNSO and was a former UASG vice-chair.

Galila used to conduct many international sessions (International IGF, African IGF, *NOGs .. etc) ,trainings , hackathons, hands-on workshops and engaging as a technical

expert for any issues related to the project of Universal Acceptance.

Gallia is also a member of the Task Force on Arabic script Internationalized Domain Names (TF-AID) ) that focuses on technical issues and

solutions to promote Arabic IDNs, their secure deployment and ease of use for the community, as well as an observer of Security, Stability,

and Resiliency of the DNS (SSR2) and DNS|DNSSEC Trainer at DNS Entrepreneurship Center (DNS-EC).

Galila had many contributions at the international UA-Day like regional UA-Day at Yerevan- Armenia, National UA-Day at Dodoma-Tanzania and UA-Day at Sierra Leone.

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Covid-19 has its cons and pros, one of these pros that now all services went online whatever it is a local use services “Education, Health, Academia, Governmental, …etc”

 or internal one ( E-Visa, Online Shopping …… etc. ), so local users is related mainly to ccTLDs whatever the languages they prefer to use for domain names and email addresses,

while international users could use any of the scripts available, so how could local users use their own languages to go for the governmental services for example !

how could these citizen as well use the new trend of gTLD’s whatever it is long or short or whatever the language !

UA from my view is not only a technical requirement but also, I believe it is also a tradition change requirement as SW developers traditionally used to use the old-fashioned API’s that are

not UA-Ready and that APIs technically could not process the new trend of domain names and email addresses in a consistent way.

Going towards UA adoption is a collaborative work combined from different stake-holders in order for going green for UA whatever this work is related to ccTLD’s or gTLD’s.

So, it is our role now as ccTLD’s managers to adopt and encourage for UA locally as a 1^st step then cooperate for the good practices for the UA adoption

specially that all governments are going dramatically towards digital transformation projects.

My view about the future of UA within UAC could start with the following :-

• Conducting a survey about UA adoption withing ccTLDs :-
  • What do they think about UA !
  • Is it matters to deploy UA !
  • what are the issues towards lazy adopting UA.
  • How could we help …. Etc
• Increase awareness about the importance of UA for ccTLD managers.
• Strengthen the relation between different UA concerned parties withing ICANN and others
• Drive a plan for adopting UA withing ccTLDs.
• Cooperate with UASG for the international events like UA-Day.
• Engage more ccTLDs to join UA related WG.
• …. etc

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For sure above is just on-fly thoughts about organizing the work for UAC with all of you and ICANN staff and it is my pleasure to help by all means,

I ‘ll be happy to answer any question related to that.

If there is any issue, do not hesitate to text me anytime.

Have a nice day.

Thanks a lot.

All the Best,

Abdalmonem Tharwat Galila

Manager , Numbering Planning,

Market Governance Sector.

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From: ccNSO-UACommittee <ccnso-uacommittee-bounces@icann.org> On Behalf Of Joke Braeken
Sent: 14 September, 2023 2:27 PM
To: ccNSO-UACommittee@icann.org
Subject: [ccNSO-UACommittee] Nominations UAC leadership team

Hi All,

As a follow-up from yesterday’s UAC meeting, please find below some information regarding the appointment of the ccNSO Universal Acceptance Committee (UAC) Chair and Vice-Chair, and their roles, as referred to in section xx of the UAC terms of Reference and as per Annex A to the ccNSO Guideline: ccNSO Working Groups.

TO DO | The Working Group members are expected to nominate (a) candidate(s) for the position of Chair and (a) candidate(s) for the position of Vice Chair. Nominations need to have a seconding. Self-nominations are possible. Feel free to send your nominations/secondings to the UAC mailing list. 

To date, two candidates stepped forward:

• Abdalmonem Galila (role of Chair)
• Regina Fuchsova (role of Vice Chair)

Both candidates were requested to share on the mailing list their motivations for applying for this role. If you support their self-nominations, please second their nomination to the UAC mailing list.

The deadline for nominations/secondments is Tuesday, 26 September 2023 (23:59 UTC).

Once the members of the WG nominated/seconded and selected their Chair and Vice-Chair, the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Committee will be appointed by the ccNSO Council.  

COMMITTEE MEMBERS | Members are representatives of a ccTLD. Consult the list of members here:  https://community.icann.org/x/UIfxDg

LEADERSHIP ELIGIBILITY | The Chair and Vice-Chair should be members of the Committee.

LEADERSHIP ROLE| The Chair together with the Vice-Chair, will manage the ongoing activities of the Working Group (WG) or Committee (C) and ensure an appropriate working environment by:

• Promptly sharing relevant information with the entire WG.
• Planning the work of the WG/C to meet the WG/C goals and leading the WG/C through its discussions.
• Regularly assessing and reporting on the progress of the WG/C to the Council and broader community.
• Keeping track of WG/C participation. Where a WG/C member does not regularly participate, the Chair will reach out to the member to engage that person in the WG/C. If, after a conversation that member does not regularly participates, the Chair will advise the Council, so that further steps can be taken to resolve the situation.

The Chair is the representative of the WG/C. If the Chair of a WG/C is not a member of the ccNSO Council, the ccNSO Council will appoint a ccNSO Council liaison, to act as an intermediary between the WG/C and the ccNSO Council or invite the chair to Council meetings to regularly inform the Council on progress made, take questions and participate in any deliberations related to the WG/C.

The Chair and Vice-chair will regularly inform the broader community on progress of the WG/C and seek (informal) feed-back from the community.

Joke Braeken

joke.braeken@icann.org