IGF 2024 Lightning Talk #146 Universal Acceptance and IDN World Report 2024

    EURid vzw
    Regina Filipova Fuchsova, EURid vzw, Eastern European regional group
    Stefanie Efstathiou, EURid Youth Committee, Western European regional group

    Speakers

    Regina Filipova Fuchsova, EURid, technical community, Eastern European regional group, [email protected]
    One more speaker from the Universal Acceptance Committee under ccNSO or UASG, ICANN, to be confirmed

    Onsite Moderator

    Stefanie Efstathiou, [email protected]

    Rapporteur

    Regina Filipova Fuchsova, [email protected]

    SDGs

    4. Quality Education
    8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
    10. Reduced Inequalities


    Targets: Universal Acceptance (UA) is a fundamental requirement for a truly multilingual and digitally inclusive Internet. UA ensures that all valid domain names can be used by all Internet-enabled applications, devices, and systems regardless of script, language, or character length. UA also supports the ability for email mailbox names to use characters in local languages and scripts through Email Address Internationalization (EAI) standards. Achieving UA ensures everyone has the ability to navigate and communicate on the Internet using the domain name and email address that best aligns with their interests, business, culture, language, and script. Being UA-ready will help bring the next billion people online, many of whom currently face linguistic barriers to the Internet.

    Format

    Round table

    Duration (minutes)
    20
    Description

    The aim of this lightning talks is to raise awareness of the importance of universal acceptance, its role in closing the digital gap, about the various activities conducted in different regions of the world, the activities of various ccTLD registries, the importance of a multistakeholder approach in this field as well as the results of the 2024 IDN world report published at the website https://www.idnworldreport.eu/idn-world-report-2024

    Lightning Talks are fully in-person sessions, in case it would be possible to have the session as a hybrid one, we will make sure there is an online moderator to make sure that the online audience is involved and the questions and comments raised online are addressed and the audience is invited to raise their voice.