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UA Day 2026 Events Schedule

Date Event Host Organization City Country/Territory Region Details
24/03/2026 ITU Regional Development Forum For Europe (RDF-EUR 26) EurID, ICANN, ITU Czech Republic Prague EUR One-hour / Two-hour UA Day Awareness Event (for public sector)
Agenda: here
27/03/2026 Building capacity through creation of cost effective multilingual training online for Urdu and Bangala Virtual School of Internet Governance Virtual Bangladesh, Pakistan and Canada NA Half-Day UA Day Awareness Event
Agenda: here (flyer)
31/03/2026 Building a Truly Multilingual Internet Internet Society NGO Yerevan Armenia EUR Half-Day UA Day Regional Strategy Review Event
Agenda: here
More about the event: here
04/04/2026 ISOC HYD UA Day 2026 Internet Society India Hyderabad Chapter Hyderabad India AP One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
Flyer: here
Agenda: here
More about the event: here
Details: here
IDN website: ఐసాక్ఇండియాహైదరాబాద్.భారత్
10/04/2026 The Application of Chinese Domain Names in the E-commerce Era Xiamen Internet Domain Name Application Service Industry Association Xiamen China AP Half-Day UA Day Awareness Event
Registration: here
15/04/2026 Aceptación Universal: Iniciativas y Desafíos hacia la Transformación Digital Multilingüe en el Currículo Académico de El Salvador 2026 Asociación Internet El Salvador San Salvador El Salvador LAC Half-Day UA Day Academic Curricula Event
Website: here
Flyer: here
Registration: here
More about the event: here
17/04/2026 Strengthening Regional Collaboration for Universal Acceptance Implementation in Asia-Pacific Viet Nam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC) Ha Noi Viet Nam AP Half-Day UA Day Regional Strategy Review Event
Website: here
Agenda: here
Registration: here
Remote Participation: here
22/04/2026 Advancing Universal Acceptance for a Multilingual and Inclusive Internet. International Youth Summit Sierra Leone Freetown Sierra Leone AF One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
IDN Website: https://siérraleone-ua.org/ualsite
Agenda: here
23/04/2026 UA TechBoost 2026 Network Operators Group of Latin America and
Caribbean (LACNOG)		 Caracas Uruguay / Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela LAC Half-Day UA Day Regional Strategy Review Event
Agenda and Registration: here
24/04/2026 Moldova Universal Acceptance Day 2026 Comunitatea Internet Association Chisinau Republic of Moldova EUR One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
Agenda: here
Registration: here
Social Media: here
IDN website: https://asociația-internet.com
27/04/2026 UA in Practice: Demonstrating Readiness and Multilingual Inclusion in Uganda Uganda DNS Forum Kampala Uganda AF One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
Registration: here
Event website: here
Agenda: here
More about the event: here
27/04/2026 ua_ready_internet_2026 = inclusive_domains + language_diversity # The formula for a globally accessible internet Kultur River C.I.C Hull, Lagos and Virtual United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland / Nigeria EUR Half-Day UA Day Awareness Event
(On multiple days until 21 May)
Registration: here
Social Media: here
Remote participation: 27 April 14:00 London; 30 April 14:00 London; 21 May 13:00 London
29/04/2026 Universal Acceptance with Multilingual Presence For DNS and Apps KHEWEUL.COM SA Dakar Senegal AF One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
IDN Website: خوال.com
Registration: here
Flyer: here
Agenda: here
Remote Participation: here
Time: 09:00
04/05/2026 Nigeria National Universal Acceptance (UA) Day 2026: Hybrid UA Adoption, Demonstration, and Academic Curriculum Integration AI for Clean Energy and University of Ilorin Lagos Nigeria AF One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
IDN website: ìtẹwọgbàkáríayé.com
Time: 10:00 am West Africa Time
05/05/2026 UA Day 2026 — Adoption & Demonstration انٹرنیٹ بولے سب کی زبان Digital Pakistan starts with linguistic inclusion TezHost Islamabad Pakistan AP One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
Agenda and registration: here
UA page: here
05/05/2026 Universal Acceptance and Digital Inclusion for Indigenous Communities in Morocco Tifsa Atlas Association For Sustainable Development Ouiwan Morocco AF One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
IDN website: ⵜⵉⴼⵙⴰ.com
Register: here
Remote participation: here
Time: 12:00 PM (Moroccan Time)11:00 AM UTC
06/05/2026 Building for Everyone: Universal Acceptance in Practice Thai Network Information Center Foundation Bangkok Thailand AP One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
Event website: https://รู้จัก.ไทย/ยูเอเดย์-2569
Registration: here
Time: 16:00
06/05/2026 2026 Ghana UA Day E-Governance and Internet Governance Foundation for Africa (EGIGFA) Accra Ghana AF One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
Event website: here
Agenda: here
Flyer: here
Live streaming: here
More about the event: here
13/05/2026 AFRALO UA Regional Day: Advancing UA Through Adoption and Education African Regional At-Large Organization (AFRALO) Virtual Africa countries AF Half-Day UA Day Regional Strategy Review Event
Agenda: here
More about the event: here
Event flyer: here
Registration: here
Time: 17:00 - 20:00 UTC
13/05/2026 Universal Domain Acceptance Day Kenya Network InformationCentre (KENIC) Nairobi Kenya AF One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
IDN Website: شبكة.ac.ke
Agenda and Registration: here
Time: 09:30 -16:00
16/05/2026 UA Adaptation and Hackathon Nepal 2026: Pioneering UA ready platforms Federation of Computer Association Nepal Kathmandu Nepal AP One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
Event website: https://क्यान.संगठन
Agenda: here
Registration: here
Remote participation: here
18/05/2026 An Inclusive Internet Starts with Universal Acceptance Upperlink Limited Virtual Nigeria AF One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
IDN website: élève.com
Agenda: here
Registration: here
20/05/2026 Empowering Ethiopian Academia: Integrating Universal Acceptance and Local Scripts Addis Ababa Science And Technology University Addis Ababa Ethiopia AF Half-Day UA Day Academic Curricula Event
Agenda: here
Registration: here
Remote Participation: here
21/05/2026 The Ninth Chinese Domain Name Innovative Application Forum KNET Co., Ltd. Beijing China AP Half-Day UA Day Awareness Event
Agenda and live streaming: here
22/05/2026 Identidades Regionales en Internet, un espacio para todos Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet Barquisimeto Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela LAC One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
IDN Website: amamoslañ.com
Agenda: here
Registration: here
Live streaming: here
22/05/2026 Acceptation Universelle et Souveraineté Numérique ECODEV International Ouagadougou Burkina Faso AF One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
Agenda: here
Registration: here
23/05/2026 UA Day Peru 2026: Building a Multilingual and UA-Ready Internet Hiperderecho Lima Peru LAC One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
Agenda: here
Registration: here
Social Media: here
23/05/2026 UA Niger 2026 Digital Niger Niamey Niger AF Half-Day UA Day Awareness Event
Agenda: here
Registration: here
25/05/2026 Summary of the UA course Jinan University Guangzhou China AP Half-Day UA Day Academic Curricula Event
28/05/2026 Working Toward a Universal Internet for Language and Cultural Empowerment Coalition for Digital Impact (CODI) Virtual United States of America NA Half-Day UA Day Regional Strategy Review Event
Agenda, add to calendar: here
Time: 14:00 - 17:00 UTC
28/05/2026 Lebanon UA Adoption & Demonstration Day 2026 Lebanese Cyberspace Association Beirut Lebanon AP One-Day UA Day Adoption and Demonstration Event
IDN website: يوم-القبول-الشامل.com
Agenda and Registration: here
Remote participation: here
29/05/2026 5th Edition of Tanzania School of Community Networks - Community-Centred Connectivity Driving an Inclusive Digital Economy Tanzania Community Networks Polytechnic College Tarime United Republic of Tanzania AF One-hour / Two-hour UA Day Awareness Event
30/05/2026 UA in the Classroom: Model for Integration and Evaluation of the Universal Acceptance Curriculum in Engineering and Technology Programs in Mexico Escuela Modelo S.C.P. Mérida, Yucatán México LAC Half-Day UA Day Academic Curricula Event
Agenda: here
Registration: here
Flyer: here
Domain Name System
Internationalized Domain Name ,IDN,"IDNs are domain names that include characters used in the local representation of languages that are not written with the twenty-six letters of the basic Latin alphabet ""a-z"". An IDN can contain Latin letters with diacritical marks, as required by many European languages, or may consist of characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese. Many languages also use other types of digits than the European ""0-9"". The basic Latin alphabet together with the European-Arabic digits are, for the purpose of domain names, termed ""ASCII characters"" (ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange). These are also included in the broader range of ""Unicode characters"" that provides the basis for IDNs. The ""hostname rule"" requires that all domain names of the type under consideration here are stored in the DNS using only the ASCII characters listed above, with the one further addition of the hyphen ""-"". The Unicode form of an IDN therefore requires special encoding before it is entered into the DNS. The following terminology is used when distinguishing between these forms: A domain name consists of a series of ""labels"" (separated by ""dots""). The ASCII form of an IDN label is termed an ""A-label"". All operations defined in the DNS protocol use A-labels exclusively. The Unicode form, which a user expects to be displayed, is termed a ""U-label"". The difference may be illustrated with the Hindi word for ""test"" — परीका — appearing here as a U-label would (in the Devanagari script). A special form of ""ASCII compatible encoding"" (abbreviated ACE) is applied to this to produce the corresponding A-label: xn--11b5bs1di. A domain name that only includes ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens is termed an ""LDH label"". Although the definitions of A-labels and LDH-labels overlap, a name consisting exclusively of LDH labels, such as""icann.org"" is not an IDN."