[UA-EAI] Endorsement for Vice Chair of EAI Working Group

[Diana Arteaga]

Thanks Richard for bringing the concrete concern to everyone notice. I
agree with what you revealed.

 Mark will leadership ought solemnly where UASG is stirring.



Diana

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 3:08 PM richard nims <richnims at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Mark
>
> I am earnestly astounded to see you Introducing Santosh as a candidate for
> Vice-Chair of EAI WG. Formerly you announced Nittin Wali as Vice-Chair thru
> one of our EAI working group calls, later in ICANN66 you mentioned that he
> personally request you to withdraw however there was no formal email in
> this regard on working group. What is more is that none of us ever seen any
> communication or any contribution from Santosh in past in UASG or EAI
> working group. Its giving a resilient communiqué that present leadership is
> completely diminishing and forcing régime bureaucrats from India in working
> group positions for some bestowed curiosity.
>
> Cheers
>
> Richard
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 8:42 AM Mark Svancarek (CELA) via UA-EAI <
> ua-eai at icann.org> wrote:
>
>> It is my pleasure to introduce and endorse T Santosh for the role of
>> Vice-Chair for the EAI Working Group.
>>
>>
>>
>> Some of you probably already know T Santosh, who is Scientist “E” of the
>> Indian Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) tasked with
>> dealing with matters related to Internet Governance, Internet Protocols,
>> Digital Inclusion and Multilingual Internet. In his role as a senior
>> government official, he is very familiar with Universal Acceptance.
>>
>>
>>
>> In T Santosh’s own words, here are some of his qualifications:
>>
>>
>>
>>    - Actively involved in undertaking activities related to promoting
>>    the cause of multilingualism on the Internet in India on behalf of the
>>    Government of India.
>>    - Actively involved in engaging on behalf of MeitY jointly in
>>    partnership with NIXI and C-DAC in order to take up the work related to the
>>    representation of Indian Languages in the non-ASCII characters. As a result
>>    of this .Bharat is now available in all 22 scheduled languages covering 10
>>    scripts.
>>    - Actively involved in leading the cause of dissemination of the
>>    efforts multilingual internet ecosystem including Neo-Brahmi Label
>>    Generation Panel (NBGP) Members.
>>    - Presented as a keynote speaker at several events on
>>    multilingualism, organized by ICRIER, C-DAC, etc. speaking on the ways and
>>    means of popularizing IDN’s , EAI and Universal Acceptance.
>>    - Working actively through various groups and committees at ICANN
>>    towards building the rules for secure and stable definition of the
>>    top-level domains for scripts used globally, so that people with no
>>    knowledge of English are able to go online and access the websites with the
>>    Internet domain names completely in their languages. All this is likely to
>>    contribute greatly towards Bridging of the Digital Divide and make it
>>    easier for the next set of billion new Internet users, a large part of
>>    which is going be non-English speakers from India, to access and make use
>>    of the Internet in their own local languages.
>>    - Involved with the project to Promote Devanagari script on the
>>    Internet which is implemented by the Internet and Mobile Association of
>>    India (IAMAI), under which we have organized 6 Universal Acceptance
>>    Workshops in 6 different states of India.
>>
>>
>>
>> T Santosh and I were able to chat at length about his work.  He also told
>> me about the efforts of NIC.IN and C-DAC to develop EAI-compatible email
>> systems.  These systems support over 100K government officials!  When they
>> are fully upgraded, they will be great showcases for the multi-lingual
>> Internet.  I am excited to think that our working group could contribute to
>> their success.
>>
>>
>>
>> I heartily endorse T Santosh for our Vice Chair role.  Please review his
>> qualifications above and communicate your support either privately to me or
>> on the public list.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> /marksv
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