Hello Everyone, 


We just completed historic ICANN67.  ICANN67 must have been one of the largest online conference in the world. It takes a lot to organise such a massive conference in a very short period of time. 

I must congratulate Board and ICANN Org team to  organise this event successfully. This has not only given lots of lessons to learn but also gave satisfaction of our capabilities to achieve very difficult goals . Fantastic team effort. Congratulations to entire ICANN team for this huge mile stone.

Last year in March you elected the UA leadership and we have been working hard to work within the guidelines provided in charter to achieve the mission of Universal Acceptance - All domain names and all email addresses work in all software applications.

Thank you for your trust and faith to give this responsibility and I feel its my duty to give you some important recap and updates which has been achieved during the year. 

 

  1. UASG Leadership (see details)
    1. Chair: Ajay Data
    2. Vice-Chair: Dennis Tan Tanaka
    3. Vice Chair: Dusan Stojicevic
    4. Vice Chair: Mark Svancarek
  2. UASG working groups and their chairs (join UASG WGs)
    1. UA Technology WG – Chair: Satish Babu, Vice-Chair: Dessalegn Yehuala
    2. UA Email Address Internationalization WG – Chair: Mark Svancarek, Vice-Chair: T. Santhosh
    3. UA Measurement WG – Chair: Dennis Tan Tanaka
    4. UA Communications WG – Chair: Rahul Gosain, Vice-Chair: Lilian Ivette
    5. UA Local Initiatives WG – Chair: Ajay Data
      i.      Commonwealth of Independent States and Easter Europe – Chair Maria Kolesnikova
  1. Work completed or under-progress based on the FY20 Action Plan (T = Technology; E = EAI; M = Measurement; C = Communications; L = Local Initiatives)
    1. T1 - Define UA Readiness (UASG026)
    2. T6 - Determine the evaluation criteria for choosing Frameworks and Programming Languages 
    3. T7 - Review and Revised Existing Programming Language Evaluation Criteria
    4. T9 - Execute review for 20 most popular Open Source Programming Language Libraries and utilities. Identification done by the Technology Working Group
    5. T11 - Identify and sponsor suitable Hackathons to get Internet Infrastructure applications made UA Ready. 
    6. T13 - Develop Training Materials for technology training for UA Readiness
    7. T15 - Participate in the development of Communications and Training Material, Presentations, etc.
    8. E1 - Oversee the review or development of training material for EAI
    9. E2 - Oversee the EAI Evaluation Efforts
    10. E4 - Experience EAI with Free email accounts
    11. M1 - Create measures for assessing the UA & EAI Readiness of the Internet
    12. M4 - Evaluate the UA Readiness of different genres of applications −Email, Programming Languages and Frameworks, Ecommerce Platforms
    13. M5 - Evaluation of UA Readiness of popular Websites (Global and Targeted Geographies)
    14. C5 - Prepare at least six Case Studies on different types of organizations who have pursued Universal Acceptance.  
    15. C7 - Oversee the regular review of all UASG published documents and research reports.   Update as appropriate
    16. C8 - Review the content and structure of the UASG.tech website on an annual basis
    17. C9 - Fund hosting and maintenance of the UASG website
    18. C11 - Produce materials (printing, design)
    19. C12 - Organize Strategic Communications Partner 
    20. C14 -Provide support and encouragement for Global and Regional IGFs and Schools of Internet Governance (Participated in IGF, also with DC-DNSI)
    21. C15 - Organize regular meetings of the UA Ambassadors 
    22. C17 - The UASG to maintain a social media presence
    23. C19 - Leveraging ICANN’s Global communications team, the UASG will look to have at least 6 media messages, for each region, each year
    24. C20 - Translation of content, including relevant reports and case studies, in languages identified
    25. L1 - Procure a local facilitator
    26. L2 - Organize face-to-face meeting of the local coordination/advisory group 
    27. L4 - Get UA Topics included in local fora and publications
  1. UA Ambassadors (see details)
  1. Yazid Akanho, Benin
  2. Harish Chowdhary, India
  3. Mark W. Datysgeld, Brazil
  4. Abdalmonem Galila, Egypt
  5. John Levine, USA
  6. Zhijiang Liu, China
  7. Yangyi Wu (Walter Wu), China
  8. Xiucheng Wu (Marvin Woo), China
  1. Recent Statements of Work developed by WGs (posted here)
    1. UA Readiness Evaluation of Programming Languages and Development Frameworks
    2. Evaluation of Email Software and Services which Announce EAI Support
    3. UA-Readiness of Open-Source Code (Pilot)
  1. FY20 Action Plan with budget
  2. Website and contacts:
    1. https://uasg.tech
    2. UASG: info@uasg.tech
    3. UA at ICANN: UAProgram@icann.org
    4. Test your email here for EAI support
    5. Log a UA related issue here

Effective cross-functional collaboration is an essential element for success of UASG mission. Specific support particularly from At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) and LACRALO is being provided along with ICANN org functions including Communications, Global Stakeholder Engagement, and Government Engagement are helping to raise awareness of UA.

My presentation during ICANN67 to update the community also covered some of the above and as everyone could not join the online meeting, above is the update for your knowledge. 

In last one year we have made some significant decisions and progress. We wished more however we are fully charged up to accomplish many goals and make some visible and impactful progress in the days to come.

Best Wishes

 

Dr. Ajay Data
Chair - UASG

 




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