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Agenda1. Welcome and Introduction: Pierre Dandjinou (ICANN)2. Intervention of panelists:a. Overview of Universal Acceptance: Sarmad Hussain (ICANN)b. Dot Africa Registry: Challenges/actual examples of cases/actions taken by .africa to remedy UA issues/…c. AFTLD: role in outreach to ccTLDs / issues/ actions/… Ali Hadji Mmadid. AFNOG: UA modules in AFNOG workshops e.g. configuring mailservers, webservers, CMSs, webhosting tools for EAI and IDNs; …e. AFRALO: Awareness, involvement of community to address UA challenges…; Bram FudzulaniModerator: Yaovi Atohoun (ICANN)3. Open discussion with participants4. Conclusion and end of the workshop

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Thank you for the call on FR channel

Hi Oleive Kouami - looking forward to your story at the intercultural webinar today

we can see the presentation thanks

OK. Thank you Hadia

It's Olévié

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To find out more about how to make your systems UA ready, and for finding out more about the UA readiness of popular platforms, programming langugae libraries, Content Management Systems as such, see Universal Acceptance document hub: https://uasg.tech/document-hub/

*programming language

thanks bye

Thank you indeed an important question

Quelle est la stratégie de l'organisme qui gère le DotAfrica pour l'expansion de ce ND en Afrique ? Écrire aux gouvernants et leur octroyer des réserves, c'est bien. Mais cela ne peut faire bouger sensiblement les choses. Envisagez-vous des actions Marketing de contacts, de promotion avec des opérateurs locaux privés ou sociétés civiles qui pourront aider...

Africa as a vast continent on it own ,how do we embark on continental training?

Merci

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La mise en place de l'acceptance universelle requiert notamment le développement du contenu local. Comment une action de promotion et développement du Contenu local peut être reversé ou connecté à la dynamique de l'UA ?

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True remark. Domain names vs contents

We need to be trained into pur local languages

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Thank you Pierre

Thank Dear Pierre

Thank you Yaovi and all

Dear Hadia, here is another Yao, born a Thursday, he is "vi" too like me ;-) Yao-vi mean Yao the little ;-)

This AfNOG and WACREN challenges

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too

Thank you All. I have to leave. Bye

Thank you everyone

+1 Dr Nii

we need to prioritise your US actions in africa

we need to prioritise our UA actions in africa

Merci à tous les panelistes et à tous ceux et celles qui nous ont apporté des éclaircissements sur le thème du jour. Il faut reconnaitre que le sujet est complexe mais pas impossible.

Prière revenir prochainement sur ce sujet. c'est intéressant!!

hi everyone Frank Anati from Ghana 🇬🇭 https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-anati sorry for being late

I have to leave. Thanks

Thank you Prof

That's the realt on th field

Let's re-learn our local languages and liberate our minds. Let's support IDN and UA. Thank you all

Merci, très interresant. Very professional and respectful. Wishing everyone health and happiness. À la prochaine. Stay safe and be kind.

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Thank you everyone. The session recording and slides will be available in a few days on https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/regional-universal-acceptance-training-2021-01-06-en

It had 4 questions

Thanks a lot for your participation

Bye

Done @Yaovi thank you

Thank you Bye.

Thank you all

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