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Name :	WHEATLEY, Patrick
Date :	January 06, 2025
Organization :	UK Government (DSIT)
Country :	United Kingdom
Job Title :	Policy Advisor on Internet Governance
Contribution :	The UK’s contribution supports making the Internet more multilingual. A more multilingual Internet is shown to bring important benefits to existing and future users of the Internet. These benefits include motivating the unconnected to use the Internet, ensuring all users have meaningful access to the Internet, and increasing online safety. The contribution also recognises the universal acceptance (UA) of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) as necessary to achieving a more multilingual Internet. While delivering UA of IDNs is shown to face challenges, ranging from technical obstacles to improving public awareness, the contribution explains how such challenges can be addressed through a multistakerholder approach. The value of a multistakeholder approach to making the Internet more multilingual and accessible is demonstrated by noting the particular strengths and contributions of the International Telecommunications Union, its member states, and other stakeholders. The contribution reminds us how each stakeholder's strengths can be complementary and be used to overcome the different challenges in making the Internet more multilingual and accessible.
Attachments :	IDNs.pdf