Dear ICANN Community Member, It is to further reiterated that first Global UA Day celebration is being held at New Delhi on 27 th & 28 th March, 2023. Please find enclosed VC Link for each session along with the detailed programme. You are once again requested to kindly visit globaluaday.in to register. However, you are free to join the UA Day celebration even without registration. With kind regards, Anil Kumar Jain CEO, NIXI, INDIA Chairman: Global UA Day Celebration Organizing Committee Chair, UASG Communication WG [ https://rashtragaan.in/ ] From: "CEO NIXI" <ceo@nixi.in> To: ccpdp4-cs-sg@icann.org Sent: Friday, March 17, 2023 6:09:26 PM Subject: Invitation - Global UA Day Dear Sir/Madam, UASG (Universal Acceptance Steering Group) is created by ICANN in 2015 with the objective of promoting Universal Acceptance in Computing systems across the world. Till date, there is a budge among technical community, user community, Government and academia about the need of Universal Acceptance. However, Universal Acceptance ready systems are below 3% globally. Therefore, there is an urgent need for all of us to work together as a team, as a community to ensure that those who are left out from the Internet revolution should be brought within Internet fold to make use of a wonderful invention called “Internet”. We expect out of 2.7 billion left out citizens globally, at least 1.0 billion can be brought within Internet system using UA ready software and hardware. UASG has taken an initiative to make a big awareness programme of UA by celebrating Global UA Day on 28 th March which is led by India for 2023 and I am chairing the Implementation Committee for the same. Global objective of UASG which will not only result in adding more broadband users but also initiate several other positive outcomes like development of new softwares, upgradation of existing hardware and also creation of new jobs. It is also expected that global GDP may see a boost by adding more internet users in the system. I as Chair of UASG Comm. Working Group invite you to two days inaugural Global UA Day celebration at New Delhi. Details of programme with link to join are enclosed for your reference. With kind regards, Anil Kumar Jain CEO, NIXI Chair, UASG Communication Working Group Chair, Implementation Committee, Global UA Day celebration 2023 Chair, India Internet Governance Forum Vice Chair – IDN ccTLD W4 Liaison Officer between IDN ccTLDW4 & IDN gTLD EDP Member-IDN gTLD EPDP Member - IGLC [ https://rashtragaan.in/ ]
