TRA Bahrain to hold Hackathon for Arabic .BH Internationalized Domains

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) is holding a hackathon for university students across Bahrain in relation to Bahrain’s Arabic .bh domain This initiative is being implemented in collaboration with Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on a number of projects aimed at increasing community awareness of worldwide acceptance of multi languages on the internet.

Besides Universal Acceptance and Internationalized Domain Names, the hackathon will enable people to use multilingual domain names in all their internet applications.

Hackathon participants will develop a software and configure email systems to support Email Address using Arabic language domain names.

The TRA will work with universities to incorporate multilingual domain name projects into students’ semester assignments as part of a long-term engagement.

Shaikh Ahmed Bin Isa Al Khalifa, Manager of ICT and Acting Head of External Affairs at TRA said: “This initiative will not only give students exposure to the Internet eco-system but also provide them with an opportunity to gain industry insight in to the on-line world and help address many of the industry’s challenges.”