[At-Large] UA Days

[Barrack Otieno]

Many thanks Roberto for the useful summary. You raise valid points, great
to see ccTLDs at the forefront of Championing Universal Acceptance.
Considering the fact that most of them implement the 3 R model, the role of
end users as meaningful actors is key.

Best Regards

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 7:23 PM Roberto Gaetano via At-Large <
at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I have attended the UA Days in Belgrade. I am taking the opportunity of a
> delay in my flight back to drop some notes.
>
> The meeting was very interesting. We had a full house in the morning, with
> numbers decreasing in the afternoon. I don’t know about the online
> participation. Please find the programme here:
> https://uaday.rs/program/?lang=en
>
> The first panel was about multilingualism, Sally Costerton was among the
> speakers. It seems that the concept that the ultimate goal is
> multilingualism in the Internet is taking speed. To be noted that Anil
> Kumar Jain, UASG Chair, mentioned the four “pillars” among which there is
> no mention of the role of the user community. Interesting contribution by
> Leonid Todorov, arguing that we will have a stronger push to UA readiness
> from places and people that are more disadvantaged rather than from places
> and people that are better aware - in an intellectual way - about the need
> for equality of opportunities in internet access.
>
> The second panel featured some registries that have been active in
> achieving results in term of UA readiness. I was the last speaker, and
> brought the point of view of the users, who are the most affected by lack
> of UA, making also a couple of examples. The good news is that my
> contribution was well received, the bad news is that I made the point that
> the user community should play a role - I argued that it should be the
> “fifth pillar” in the UA strategy - as users can put pressure on the
> providers that are not UA ready, proposing that we have a paradigm shift
> from “providers will graciously become UA compliant as a bonus for the
> users” to “users worldwide have the right to demand that all users have the
> same Internet experience regardless their language or script they use”. The
> bad news is in the fact that I have proposed that the user community - and
> At-Large at the forefront - use their footprint in the wider community to
> build awareness of the user rights and produce pressure - also in
> collaboration with governments - to providers to be UA compliant. That
> means a call for action for At-Large.
>
> In summary, we need to move from being spectators, waiting for things to
> happen, for the technical community to provide solutions, for providers to
> deploy UA-compliant services, to an active part of the community to demand
> and obtain the same level of service for all Internet users, regardless
> language, script, physical location, or other factors.
>
> Cheers,
> Roberto
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