NIXI Hosts UA Day 2025, Promoting a Multilingual Internet for Viksit Bharat.
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The 3rd Universal Acceptance Day (UA Day) 2025 was celebrated in New Delhi on March 28, 2025. The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), organized a hybrid event at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
- The theme of the event, "Connecting the Unconnected - Building a Multilingual Internet for Viksit Bharat," focused on promoting Universal Acceptance (UA) and fostering a more inclusive digital ecosystem in India.
- The event featured discussions on UA’s socio-economic impact, its benefits for businesses, and its crucial role in shaping effective public policy. The importance of a multilingual internet was emphasized, highlighting UA’s role in ensuring seamless access to digital services for all.
- The 'Bhashini Portal', highlighted during Universal Acceptance Day 2025, promotes linguistic inclusivity by enabling real-time translation across Indian languages, making digital content accessible to non-English speakers. Launched in Gandhinagar in August 2022, Bhashini, developed under Meity's National Language Translation Mission, stands for "Bhasha Interface for India."
Main Point :- (i) The event was graced by S. Krishnan, Secretary of Meity and Chairman of NIXI, as the Chief Guest. Notable speakers included Tim Curtis (UNESCO), Samiran Gupta (ICANN), and Jaco Du Toit (UNESCO HQ).
(ii) NIXI is a non-profit company under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013, aimed at enhancing internet services in India.
(iii) UA Day, established by ICANN in March 2023 with UASG's support, promotes Universal Acceptance (UA), ensuring that all valid domain names and email addresses, regardless of script or language, can be used by all internet-enabled systems globally.
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