Hi Mark,

UASG community (UASG Leadership, members of local initiatives and UA Ambassadors) with support of ICANN team and ALAC members have contributed to the IFG 2020 agenda and its discussions.

And it was well reflected in the following reports after IGF 2020.

There were organized two sessions with UASG members support at IGF 2020 with different approaches to UA topic but contributing to Inclusion thematic both:

November 16 - IGF 2020 WS #267 Universal Acceptance of Domain Names and Email Addresses (+Report)

Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEUJbMXBmJw&t=9s

November 17 - IGF 2020 WS #271 Multilingualism online: old challenges and new perspectives (+Report)

Recording:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jma7BchOOg&t=118s

BR,

Maria  

From: UA-comms [mailto:ua-comms-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Mark Svancarek (CELA) via UA-comms
Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 1:24 AM
To: ua-admin@icann.org; ua-comms@icann.org
Subject: [UA-comms] IGF Inclusion Messages

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?

/marksv