[UA-discuss] Report from NetHui 2015

[Etuate Cocker]

Hi Don, Thanks for accepting me into this group. I was one of attendees of
PACINET and an ICANN alumni fellow and would love to contribute more into
this mailing list.

Etuate Cocker
Network/Systems Engineer,
Spark Digital N.Z Ltd,
CCNA, CCNP, CCAI, CEH.

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Don Hollander <don.hollander at icann.org>
wrote:

>  *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.
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>
>
> ·      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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