[AFRI-Discuss] A blog on Ethiopia

Rinalia Abdul Rahim rinalia.abdulrahim at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 11:11:31 UTC 2016


Hi, Tijani.

I am glad that the linkage on IDN is now being made with the top level.
Ultimately, it is the local content that will make the Internet valuable
and useful for end users.

Best regards,

Rinalia

On Thursday, 4 August 2016, Tijani BEN JEMAA <tijani.benjemaa at fmai.org.tn>
wrote:

> Thank you Rinalia for your mail,
>
> Yes, indeed, Addis is now a lovely city. I know it very well since 2002
> and I visited it twice in 2015. I had the opportunity to notice the huge
> evolution in the last few years.
>
> As for the Amharic (Ethiopian language), I know that the Ethiopians were
> working on  the use of their language for local content even before the
> ICANN IDN effort.
>
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> *Tijani BEN JEMAA*
> Executive Director
> Mediterranean Federation of Internet Associations (*FMAI*)
> Phone: +216 98 330 114
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> Le 4 août 2016 à 09:42, Rinalia Abdul Rahim <rinalia.abdulrahim at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rinalia.abdulrahim at gmail.com');>> a écrit :
>
> Hello, AFRALO.
>
> I wanted to share this lovely blog from ICANN staff about something
> happening in the African region, in Ethiopia.  I have visited Addis Ababa
> often in the past and the blog reminds me of the city, its heritage and
> culture, and its people.  And of course its coffee!
>
> I am very glad that ICANN is helping the people of Ethiopia establish the
> Ethiopic Generation Panel for its writing system.  The work of this
> panel will be used to determine rules that would apply for IDN TLDs in
> Ethiopic script.
>
> If any of you are interested in doing something similar for your writing
> system/script, please contact the IDN staff at ICANN (idntlds at icann.org
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','idntlds at icann.org');>).
>
> I recently participated in the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance
> Forum held in Taiwan where ICANN organised a workshop to share updates on
> similar work related to scripts of the Asia Pacific region.  The
> representative from Thailand indicated that part of the positive effects of
> the Thai Generation Panel work was that it helped them preserve their
> writing system (and associated languages using the script) in the digital
> age.  This helped them address concerns about dying languages.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rinalia
>
> Rinalia Abdul Rahim
> Member of the ICANN Board of Directors
> Member of the IDN Board Working Group
>
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> [image: ICANN] Daily Digest of ICANN.org
> >From the ICANN Blog
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> Coffee Beans and the Ethiopic Script
> <http://icann.org/news/blog/coffee-beans-and-the-ethiopic-script>
>
> Last month, we visited Addis Ababa to hold a workshop for the Ethiopic
> Script Generation Panel. Upon arriving, while being introduced to the rich
> history and culture of Ethiopia, we were told that coffee beans originated
> from Kaffa, which was a medieval kingdom in ancient Ethiopia. The beans
> grow from a shrub called bun in Oromo, a language of the region.! Already
> charmed with this discovery, our interactions began with a visit to the
> Institute of Ethiopic Studies (IES), which is home to a museum that took us
> on a journey through the beautiful and diverse heritage of Ethiopia. The
> museum was...
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