We were reviewing the IGF Messages for each of the four tracks. For the Inclusion Messages, my colleague Ben came across this helpful section on UA which I wanted to make sure you had seen:

Promoting multilingualism online requires the nternationa of more institutional and financial resources. Governments, the private sector and nonprofit entities should empower local communities and indigenous people to produce digital content in their languages, and manage the associated intellectual property rights. The tech community can also help by developing technologies that enable the digital inclusion of low resource languages (oral languages, endangered languages, etc.). In addition, governments and tech companies should be more active in enabling the universal acceptance (UA) of nternationalized domain names (IDNs) and email addresses within their services and technologies. More awareness raising and capacity development are needed – on both the demand and supply side – to enable stakeholders to better understand the social benefits and long-term business benefits of supporting UA-readiness.

Did UASG contribute to this text?

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