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Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ to organize roundtable discussion at WSIS Forum 2021

On April 13, a roundtable discussion on Universal Acceptance in Eurasia and the Asia Pacific region will be held during the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2021. The discussion is organized by the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ and is part of the Russian delegation program that will attend the forum.

Maria Kolesnikova, the Coordination Center’s Chief Analyst, will moderate the roundtable discussion and the following participants are expected to attend:

  • Dusan Stojicevic (Gransy, Serbia)
  • Emily Taylor (Oxford Information Labs, UK)
  • Manal Ismail (National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Egypt)
  • Grigori Saghyan (ISOC Armenia, Armenia)
  • Jiankang Yao (CNNIC, China)
  • Aman Masjide (Radix, India)

The participants and speakers will discuss opportunities for raising public awareness and measures to support the Universal Acceptance concept to make headway in ensuring multilingualism online and creating local content in Eurasia and the Asia Pacific region.

The session’s participants can register <"a href="https://itu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PC-pcU7rTV6_OSrrQ3CyAg">here

This year’s top-level World Summit on the Information Society Forum will be held completely online; preparations began in January 2021. Every week, the forum’s participants have held themed seminars, organized by representatives of various countries, high-level meetings on political matters, multi-theme training courses, hackathons and exhibition events. The forum will also feature an online exhibition involving the participants).

The final week is scheduled for May 17-21, 2021 and will feature top-level commentary and interactive dialogues, a WSIS awards ceremony, a roundtable discussion with ministers from participating countries, as well as a series of meetings on WSIS activities.

The World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2021 program will include crowdsourcing, and the involvement of governments, civil society, the private sector, academic circles, the technological community, and inter-governmental organizations in the preparatory process that creates favorable conditions for establishing partner relations using joint projects and initiatives.

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