Valve Digital Kosovo – Integrating Kosovo into digital world

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You might be in the process of helping with integration of Kosovo, and all you need now is the community to help or guide if any similar experience occurred.

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Name of the Institution/Company or Website: Example: Vienna International Airport
For internet properties please use domain name: i.e Facebook.com

Contact details of the Institution/Company: Please include Address, Telephone, Fax, Email, Website.
(Optional) Contact person.

Required Action:
Please indicate what is the problem and what should be fixed.

Reference: Please insert the URL where Kosovo is or not displayed.
An example of reference link: http://wetter.orf.at/suedosteuropa

Your Example Email

You can submit here your version of email to the institution, for other member of the website to use it. To get help you can seeexample of email sent.

Subject:
Example: Request for placing Pristina on official Brussels Airport website

Your Letter: Please find example of email sent.

Status (Optional)
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Take Action

Send a request for online recognition to: Select Institution

Name: Valve

Valve is an entertainment software and technology company founded in 1996 by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington and based in Bellevue, Washington. The company became famous from it’s first game Half-Life. Valve currently develops and maintains several video games including the Half-Life 2 series, Counter Strike Source, Day of Defeat Team Fortress 2, Portal, Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. As well as it’s current projects, Valve has impressive back catalogue including Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike: Deleted Scenes, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress Classic, Deathmatch Classic, Opposing Force, Ricochet.

Required Action

Request to add Kosovo on the list of countries in Steam Software and it's services/products
- Steam Store Purchase List (When buying a product with credit card to select Kosovo instead of Serbia or any of the neighboring countries)
- Steam Community (Selecting Kosovo as country you live in instead of Yugoslavia and Serbia)
- Steam Forums
- Steam Support
etc.

We suggest changing the email subject above according to your preference.

Dear Madam / Sir, I am a citizen of Kosovo and regular user/player of Valve's Steam Software and it's services/products/games. I am extremely disappointed to find that I am unable to select Kosovo on the drop-down menu on my Community Profile, Forums, Support or when I purchase a product in Steam, instead I have to select one of the neighboring countries. As you might be aware, Kosovo has declared independence and so far has been recognized as a country by 100+ UN member states, including United States, UK and the vast majority of EU countries. In attempt to clarify further the Kosovo’s declaration of independence, in response to Serbia’s question on legality of this act, the International Court of Justice on 22 of July 2010 concluded on its decision “that the adoption of the declaration of independence of 17 February 2008 did not violate general international law, Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) or the Constitutional Framework. Consequently the adoption of that declaration did not violate any applicable rule of international law.” (see para. 122 of the Court’s decision: http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/141/15987.pdf). This unambiguous wording of the World Court, a principle organ of the United Nations, should be seen as a primary reference when considering any issue with regard to Kosovo’s statehood and its place in international relations. Kosovo has one of the youngest population in whole Europe. We are keen internet users. Please do not deny us our rightful place as part of the global online generation, we simply want to be able to choose the option which best defines where we are from while playing our favourite games (Valve's Products). Your supportive response would be of invaluable help to overcome a technological barrier that affects online players from Kosovo attempting to utilize the game experiences as they seek to receive their information in Kosovo. On behalf of myself and Digital Kosovo initiative, I would like to thank you in advance for taking this issue into consideration. Best regards,

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Status:Open

Emails sent: 161

Points: 2

Status

07 March 2014
The VALVE case is now open for public.

You can also use the social network plugins to publicly request Kosovo inclusion in particular institution’s website.

Contact Details

Bellevue, USA
10900 NE 4th St.
Suite 500
Bellevue, WA, 98004
USA
Website: www.valvesoftware.com

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