[UA-discuss] Report from NetHui 2015

[Don Hollander]

Report
UA @ NetHui 2015
July 8-10 2015
Prepared by
Don Hollander
 
NetHui (2015.nethui.nz) is an annual ‘IGF like’ event organized by
InternetNZ.  “Hui” is the Māori word used for a gathering.  In many ways,
NetHui is an un-conference.   There are planned themed sessions as well as
sessions that are developed ‘on the fly’.  By and large, the sessions are
not mostly presentations, but instead are community driven discussions that
are facilitated.  NetHui are dynamic, organic and community driven.  They
can often be very passionate.   This year there were about 400 people
present.
 
Universal Acceptance concepts were inserted into a number of sessions as
well as many corridor discussions.
 
・     During the PacINET gathering of participants from the Pacific.
During a more structured presentation by Save Vocea of ICANN and
interventions by Don Hollander

・     During the Gov 2.0 session that looked at the future of digital
government services.

・     During the Domains: Growth, change and transition session (by Don
Hollander and Karatiana Taiura).

・     During the InTac session on technologies

・     During the closing plenary on Digital Inclusion

・     During the Code Club Meetup (Code club is an initiative to introduce
coding education for young people).

 
New Zealand has a strong focus on inclusiveness, particularly between the
indigenous Māori and the Crown.   The Māori language is written with an
extended Latin script with macrons above the vowels.  This makes it an IDN.
 
The focus of the interventions was that the DNS now provides for
inclusiveness of language, both at the Root and within the .nz name space.
It is now time for the developers of New Zealand to recognize this and
adjust their systems to embrace them.


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