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Workshop on Universal Acceptance and Multilingual Internet AY: 2023-24

Event: Workshop on Universal Acceptance and Multilingual Internet

Event Description:

A paradigm shift is emerging in the world economy, with Asia establishing itself as a global economic leader. India’s growth will play a crucial role in Asia’s transition to global economic power. The Digital India initiative is one such project announced by the Prime Minister to prepare India for the knowledge-based transformation and provide good governance to citizens through synchronized and coordinated engagement to bring about a structured change in the Indian economy. The Internet is driving change at the roots of our democracy. The traditional model of governance, where citizen participation is expressed solely at the ballot box, is transforming into an online model that empowers citizens through continuous participation and collaboration. Today, the Internet has more than 5 billion users, representing over 60% of the world’s population. We expect that of the next billion new global Internet users, about 500 million will come from India!

The majority of the un-connected population is not familiar with the English language. Universal acceptance is a basic prerequisite and fundamental requirement for a truly multilingual Internet, where users worldwide can navigate entirely in their own language. Addressing the issues of universal adoption is critical to the success of the Indian government’s Digital India program. To achieve universal acceptance, Internet applications and systems must treat all TLDs, including new gTLDs and internationalized TLDs, consistently. Specifically, they must accept, validate, store, process, and display all domain names.

CyberPeace has always been engaged towards the aim of spreading awareness regarding the various developments, avenues, opportunities and threats regarding cyberspace. The same has been the keen principle of the CyberPeace Centre of Excellence set up in collaboration with various esteemed educational institutes. We at CyberPeace would like to take the collaborations and our efforts to a new height of knowledge and awareness by proposing a workshop on UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE AND MULTILINGUAL INTERNET. This workshop will be instrumental in providing the academia and research community a wholesome outlook towards the multilingual spectrum of the internet including Internationalized domain names and email address Internationalization.

Important Dates:

Date: 15th September, 2023

Time: 01:00 PM to 03:00 PM (IST)

Duration: 2:00 hours

Mode: Online

Audience: Academia, Faculties and Research Community

Moderator: Mr. Neeraj Soni, Research Associate, CyberPeace