dotafrica News

Success for .africa initiative and the future place of Africa in the governance of the internet!

Dakar hosted another historic ICANN meeting, following the formal approval of the new generic Top Level Domains Program by the ICANN Board during the "ICANN Oscars" in Singapore in June 2011, in particular for Africa

DCA's Executive Briefing Note following its Engagement with ICANN Leaders at the ICANN-42 Public Forum Meeting at Dakar, Senegal - October 27th 2011

Dakar is another historic ICANN meeting, following the formal approval of the new generic Top Level Domains Program by the ICANN Board during the “ICANN Oscars” in Singapore in June 2011

The most successful IGF meeting ever, over 2000 delegates and over 300 remote participants from across the globe, including our generation.africa team and volunteers.

The" Yes2dotAfrca" campaign was among the participant, and made very good impression in presenting its goals and missions.

ICANN along with DCA has made it a democratic community and has made this possible, and for this, all we can say is THANK YOU for the newTLDs ICANN and THANK YOU DCA for fighting for .africa.

Yes2dotAfrica Campaign - Our ScoreCard: As we promised, we will continue our journey of "yes2dotAfrica" campaign

We have kept our promise: Putting Africa in the Digital map!

DotConnectAfrica, a leading campaigner for the dotafrica TLD, was present at ICANN's recent event in Singapore and made history with the announcement for the approval to launch new gTLDs.

SOPHIA BEKELE: Ethiopian champion of the .africa initiative

DCA would like to wish Africa a Happy Africa Day!

African Union Commission Expression of Interest (EOI) for DotAfrica Unjustifiable

A Chameleonic exercise of shifting faces from a previously seeking an AU mandate to now of seeking an AU endorsement.

The "Yes2dotAfrica" Campaign trail continued to DCA's Headquarters in Mauritius.

KASS Media spoke to Sophia Bekele on DCA's accomplishments and “Yes2dotAfrica” campaign to put Africa in the digital map.

TOP Media house Nations TV PM LIVE Show, taps Sophia Bekele's expertise on doing business in Africa, plus uniting Africa's Internet presence through the .africa domain.

DotConnectAfrica has issued an Expression of Interest (EOI) for the ".africa" registry

DCA was recently endorsed by Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), a Washington DC based non-profit powerhouse, which has in its membership, nearly 90% of the Heavy Hitters of US Private Sector actors and Large Non-Profits and NGOs engaged in Africa

DotConnectAfrica has sent an open letter to the NTIA making a preliminary case for the .africa gTLD

DotConnectAfrica conducted a successful meeting at ICANN 39 Cartegna , Colombia.

At the public forum held at ICANN 39 Cartegena, DCA voiced the need for a ".africa" gTLD, being cautious not to ask for an exception for Africa.

DotConnectAfrica is endorsed by IDRU - the Internationalized Domain Resolution Union, an organization that is represented by the original IDN Top Level Domain pioneers.

Diplomat East Africa, unveils Bekele's plan for a digital Africa, including the chronicle behind the endorsement process, the birth of her "generation.africa", and the benefits of the dotafrica project to the continent.

DotConnectAfrica released the video of it's exclusive ".africa" song and performance it hosted during the launch of 'yes2dotafrica' campaign in Nairobi, Kenya

DCA supports ICANN WG 's position to provide assistant for New African gTLDs, under its mandate of sponsoring the dotafrica gTLD

DotCconnectAfrica (DCA) was invited to speak at the Tandaa symposium: Tools for taking your company online at the Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi Kenya, sponsored by the ICT board of Kenya and Google Kenya.

DCA was invited to the 2010 Leon Sullivan Summit in Atlanta Georgia and showed its respect in attendance to the legendary leadership of Ambassadors and Friends of Africa.

Ms. Sophia Bekele, Executive Director of DotConnectAfrica, spoke of a way forward for the ".Africa" project during the opening panel discussions and subseqent launch of the East Africa "dotafrica" campaign.

Strengthening East Africa’s critical internet resources was the theme to which Uganda was host to the 3rd Easter African Internet Governance forum, 2010. As a proposed internet gTLD, the ".africa" domain was of high interest to participants.

DCA participated in the 2010 Kenya internet governance forum which was hosted under the theme "advancing the internet governance debate in kenya: strengthening East Africa’s critical internet resources" and calls for support of the "africa" gTLD.

DCA was invited as part of a VIP delegation of Political & Business Leaders to showcase the ".africa" brand at the African Leadership Retreat (ALR) held in SouthAfrica during the World Cup finals, 4-13 July 2010.

Brussels ICANN no. 38 | 20-25 June 2010 was a success for DotConnectAfrica as sponsor & presenting Africa's common position.

In its week program of "movers & shakers of Africa", Channel K24, "Capital Talk" presents the story behind DotConnectAfrica and it's successful initiation of the ".africa " domain name.

CIO East Africa Managing Editor Zachary Ochieng spoke to Sophia Bekele, Founder and Executive Director, DotConnect Africa (DCA) on the organisation’s role and businesses should take advantage of fibre optic cables.

Glamour from “Miss Nigeria” meets high tech - an explosive combination. Lagos, the New York of Africa – it never sleeps and neither does DotConnectAfrica in pursuit of a unified domain for Africa.

Local Nairobi technology companies and large amounts of local African communities expressed high support for '.Africa ' domain as championed by DotConnectAfrica (DCA) at the ICANN public forum in Nairobi.

DCA's presence in Nairobi in February and March 2010 as part of its campaign to raise awareness to the benefits of the ".africa" domain was a maximum success!

24-26 February 2010 was the AITAC ICT meeting, and the creation of the ".africa" domain was the "Black Swan" events amongst the Bankers conference that was dominated by Mobile Money initiatives and technologies.

In the ICANN Nairobi conference held between 7 -12 March 2010, the African ICANN Community shared the same vision for the governance model as DotConnectAfrica (DCA), on how the ".africa" domain is to be managed.

DotConnectAfrica is invited to present the .africa project and its benefits to Regional Integration and Business community, at the regional top banking conference, AITEC Banking & Mobile Money COMESA, Nairobi, 24-25 February 2010.

The DotConnectAfrica Organization based in Africa is applying for the delegation of Africa's identifier top level domain “.africa" from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) and make it available to the Pan African Community

In an exclusive interview , Sophia Bekele speaks to Capital Ethiopia, one of the Country's top newspapers who named her "Africa's champion for the digital age".

Sophia Bekele a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow and CEO of CBS International, a US- based company, was recently invited to address the Rotary Club of Addis Ababa and Rotary Club West.- Capital Ethiopia features her address in its issue of July 2009