<html><body><div style="font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:13.0pt; line-height:1.3; color:#000000" id="nine_body_n18c402-ed224" class="nine_body" dir="auto"><div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">The feasibility of doing all UA Day events in a single global day was extensively tested last year and proved to be something nearly impossible to coordinate.</div><div class="nine-pg" dir="auto"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">A report was circulated outlining the many factors as to why that is, based on surveying the organizers themselves. It involves elements such as national holidays, cultural traditions, local university and business integration timings, and several other factors that can be found in the report.</div><div class="nine-pg blank sign" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="nine-pg blank sign" dir="auto">Having a 2 month span to carry these events out is ideal, even more so because delays and reschedulings are commonplace and we ended up with a wide calendar in spite of all efforts.</div><div class="nine-pg blank sign" dir="auto"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div class="nine-pg blank sign" dir="auto">Regards,</div><div id="nine-sign-n18c402-ed224" class="mce-content-body mce-edit-focus nine-pg nine_signature" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;line-height:1.3" dir="auto"><div class="nine-pg" dir="auto"><span style="font-weight:400;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.4px">---</span></div><div class="nine-pg" dir="auto"><span style="font-weight:400;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.4px">Mark W. Datysgeld</span><br style="font-weight:400;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.4px"><span style="font-weight:400;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.4px">Director at Governance Primer</span><br style="font-weight:400;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.4px"><span style="font-weight:400;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14.4px">ICANN GNSO Councilor</span></div></div><div class="nine-pg blank msg" dir="auto"><br></div></div><div id="quoted_header_n18c402-ed224" class="quoted_header_editor" dir="auto"><hr style="border:none; height:1px; color:#E1E1E1; background-color:#E1E1E1;"><div style="border:none; padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm" dir="auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Mutegeki Cliff via UA-discuss <ua-discuss@icann.org><br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 6, 2023 03:36<br><b>To:</b> Steve Bens<br><b>Cc:</b> ua-discuss@icann.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [UA-discuss] UA Day<br></span></div></div><div id="quoted_body_n18c402-ed224" class="quoted_body_editor mceEditable" dir="auto"><div class="nine-pg" dir="auto"><br type="attribution"></div><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif">I do agree with steve. Furthermore, it would not be the best time to change the system if we have not given the current one ample time to assess whether we should celebrate for 2 months or not. Now, i understand the objective is to raise awareness, but what is the justification for that ?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="color:rgb( 34 , 34 , 34 );width:210px"><tbody><tr style="height:20px"><td colspan="2" style="width:183px;height:14px;font-size:18px;font-weight:700">Mutegeki Cliff Agaba</td></tr><tr style="height:20px"><td colspan="2" style="width:183px;height:14px">Digital Adoption Consultant <br>Member Internet Society, AFRALO, ICANN, UASG and IGF - WGWSP<br></td></tr><tr style="height:10px"><td colspan="2" style="width:183px;height:10px;padding-bottom:2px"></td></tr><tr style="height:20px"><td style="width:173px;height:14px">+256 701 800 679 </td></tr><tr style="height:20px"><td style="width:173px;height:14px">+256 776 800 679</td></tr><tr style="height:20px"><td style="width:173px;height:14px"><br></td></tr><tr style="height:20px"><td colspan="2" style="width:183px;height:14px"><a href="http://www.mutegekicliff.com">www.mutegekicliff.com</a></td></tr><tr style="height:26px"><td colspan="2" style="width:183px;height:26px;padding-top:5px"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mutegekicliffagaba" style="color:rgb( 17 , 85 , 204 )"><img src="http://rentman.io/uploads/component-uploads/facebook-circle-015162600-1600090389_small.png" alt="facebook icon" width="22" border="0"></a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mutegekicliff/" style="color:rgb( 17 , 85 , 204 )"><img src="http://rentman.io/uploads/component-uploads/linkedin-circle-015160500-1600090389_small.png" alt="linkedin icon" width="22" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.instagram.com/mutegekicliff" style="color:rgb( 17 , 85 , 204 )"><img src="http://rentman.io/uploads/component-uploads/instagram-circle-015161500-1600090389_small.png" alt="instagram icon" width="22" border="0"></a> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="elided-text"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 at 07:57, Steve Bens via UA-discuss <<a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org">ua-discuss@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb( 204 , 204 , 204 );padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif;font-size:14px">Here are my two cents Anil , Chair.</div><div style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif;font-size:14px">Celeberation of UA Day for two months is illogical and departure from plan ? That means we may celerate UA day whole year. The idea shared in icann meeting was to dedicate a fixed date to celebrate UA Day every year. Changing the date every year by each Chair is not in best interest of uasg.</div><div style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif;font-size:14px">Please check again.</div><div style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif;font-size:14px">SJ</div><div style="font-family:'arial' , sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:'system-ui' , sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem">On Friday, December 1st, 2023 at 12:03 PM, anil Jain via UA-discuss <<a href="mailto:ua-discuss@icann.org">ua-discuss@icann.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div><br>
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<div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><div style="font-size:12.98px;background-color:rgb( 250 , 250 , 250 )"><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline">Dear UASG family,</span><br style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px"><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline"></span></div><div style="font-size:12.98px;background-color:rgb( 250 , 250 , 250 )"><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.98px;background-color:rgb( 250 , 250 , 250 )"><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline">Kindly recall that UASG introduced Annual UA Day Celebrations, </span><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline">Last year with aim to increase awareness amongst all stake holders. Annual </span><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline">UA Day 2023 was celebrated on 28th March,23, Which witnessed</span></div><div style="font-size:12.98px;background-color:rgb( 250 , 250 , 250 )"><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline">participation of </span><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline">appx </span><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline">9700 stakeholders in appx 54 events across 42 countries.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.98px;background-color:rgb( 250 , 250 , 250 )"><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline">To continue this great initiative, We are proposing to celebrate next Annual UA Day from 1st March,24 to 30th May,24.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.98px;background-color:rgb( 250 , 250 , 250 )"><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.98px;background-color:rgb( 250 , 250 , 250 )"><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline">Invitation from UASG/ICANN is available on <span style="font-size:12.98px;color:rgb( 51 , 102 , 153 )" id="m_-4251383676788646143OBJ_PREFIX_DWT137_com_zimbra_blockhyperlink"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb( 51 , 102 , 153 )" href="https://uasg.tech/2023/11/uasg-announces-call-for-proposals-for-ua-day-2024/">https://uasg.tech/2023/11/uasg-announces-call-for-proposals-for-ua-day-2024/</a>.</span></span></div><div style="font-size:12.98px;background-color:rgb( 250 , 250 , 250 )"><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline"><span style="font-size:12.98px;color:rgb( 51 , 102 , 153 )"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size:12.98px;background-color:rgb( 250 , 250 , 250 )"><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline">As this is an event for all of us, I urge all of you to look out for good organizers for Annual UA Day celebration and motivate them to submit their proposal to us before end of 15th Dec,23.</span><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline"></span><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline"></span></div><div style="font-size:12.98px;background-color:rgb( 250 , 250 , 250 )"><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline">Financial and material support to approved events are planned.</span><br style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px"><span style="font-family:'segoe ui' , 'lucida sans' , sans-serif;font-size:12.98px;float:none;display:inline">Kindly act fast.</span></div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'arial black' , 'gadget' , sans-serif"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb( 51 , 204 , 204 )"><strong>Thanks & Regards</strong></span></em></span></div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'arial black' , 'gadget' , sans-serif"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb( 51 , 204 , 204 )"><strong><br></strong></span></em></span></div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'arial black' , 'gadget' , sans-serif"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb( 51 , 204 , 204 )"><strong>Anil Kumar Jain</strong></span></em></span></div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'arial black' , 'gadget' , sans-serif"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb( 51 , 204 , 204 )"><strong>Chair, UASG</strong></span></em></span></div>
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