Name: Guiding ICANN's Work on Universal Acceptance
Start: 2026-03-08T13:15:00+0530
End: 2026-03-08T14:30:00+0530

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Guiding ICANN's Work on Universal Acceptance

Sunday March 8, 2026 1:15pm - 2:30pm IST

Jasmine Hall 1D (ccNSO)

13:15 IST (UTC+5.5), 8 March 2026
07:45 UTC, 8 March 2026
Jasmine Hall 1D (ccNSO)
ID# 17843

Session Details
Guidelines developed by the UA Expert Working Group (UA EWG) will be presented during this session. The community is encouraged to attend and help finalize and prioritize those suggestions. UNESCO will also provide an overview of the work they are doing to promote UA in collaboration with ICANN.

Session Leader: Sarmad Hussain
Staff Facilitator: Seda Akbulut

Session Recordings
Zoom Archive
English audio archive
Archivo de audio en español
Archive audio en français

Facilitators

Seda Akbulut

Universal Acceptance Program Senior Manager, ICANN Org

I have been working for ICANN since August 2015.
Currently, I am working as the Universal Acceptance Program Senior Manager. I am based in İstanbul Hub Office.

Sarmad Hussain

Senior Director, IDN and UA Programs, ICANN Org

Sarmad Hussain is with ICANN’s Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and Universal Acceptance (UA) Programs. Earlier, Sarmad was a professor of Computer Science and held the IDRC Chair position in Multilingual Computing. His research has focused on developing computing solutions... Read More →

ICANN85 Guiding ICANN's Work on UA pdf

TRANSC I85BOM Sun08Mar2026 Guiding ICANN's Work on Universal Acceptance en pdf

Sunday March 8, 2026 1:15pm - 2:30pm IST
Jasmine Hall 1D (ccNSO) ICANN 85 - Community Forum - Mumbai

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