ICANN Africa Strategy

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The “ICANN Africa Strategy” Is Not the Same as the ‘African Agenda’ :Exclusive Commentary for CircleID by Sophia Bekele, DCA Executive Director

The ICANN-45 International meeting of the ICANN Global Community in Toronto, Canada provided an opportunity for the unveiling of the initial draft of the ICANN Africa Strategy, an episode that will always be remembered as a landmark moment which signaled… Continue Reading…

IBCA initiative

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DotConnectAfrica Participates in ICANN 45 Toronto Unveils new IBCA Initiative at ICANN Public Forum

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DCA Represented by its Back-End Registry Partner CentraNic, at ICANN 45 Toronto PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 23, 2012 – DCA Trust used the opportunity afforded by the presence of the entire ICANN Global Community gathered at… Continue Reading…

ICANN-45

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DotConnectAfrica ICANN-45 Toronto Public Forum Comment on The Multi-Stakeholder Model & the presentation of the initial draft of the ICANN Africa Strategy

PUBLIC FORUM COMMENT SUBMITTED BY DCA TRUST (This is a complete unabridged version of the document. Shorter version was read out at the Public Forum Meeting due to constraint of time.) Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012 Subject: General Comment on the ICANN Multi-Stakeholder  Model & DCA’s… Continue Reading…

Achieving Women

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CONNECTING AFRICA to the World Web “Achieving women” The Premium Standard Daily, East Africa

  PRLog (Press Release) Oct 10, 2012 – Nairobi Kenya:  The Standard Group, one of premium private newspapers in East Africa, profiles Sophia Bekele as an “Achieving Women”, calling upon her as “The Global Telecommunication policy Leader”. Taking stock of her decade of professional activities and  achievements,… Continue Reading…

Wikipedia

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Sabotage of our Wikipedia sites

PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 01, 2012 – We wish to inform the global Internet public that our Wikipedia pages have been willfully and maliciously attacked. The Wikipedia pages containing entries for DotConnectAfrica http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/DotConnectAfrica .africa , which was attributed… Continue Reading…

UNIFORUM ZA Central Registry

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DotConnectAfrica Trust Official Public Comments for the ICANN Evaluation Panel on the Application Submitted by UNIFORUM ZA Central Registry for the .Africa Generic Top-Level Domain Name

COMMENT SUBMITTED BY DOTCONNECTAFRICA TRUST on The New gTLD Application Comments Forum Pursuant to Section 1.1.2.3 (‘Comment Period’) of the new gTLD Applicant’s Guidebook that allows public comments to be posted on any submitted application during the Application Comment Period,… Continue Reading…

registrants

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DCA Trust puts .africa New gTLD Users and Registrants First

PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 10, 2012 – Following the recent ICANN Reveal, one clear fact that emerged from the published parts of DotConnectAfrica’ s application, was DCA’s very affordable unit domain name registration price for standard domains in the… Continue Reading…

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Rejoinder to TechCentral SouthAfrica ‘Bizarre twist in .africa tale’

To: The Editor-in-Chief, Tech Central SouthAfrica     We thank you for your recent article (Re: ‘Bizarre twist in .africa tale’ located athttp://www.techcentral.co.za/bizarre-twist-in-africa-tale/34200/). Our estimation is that the story written by Mr. Craig Wilson and published on your web site… Continue Reading…

ITWebAfrica

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DCA’s Commentary on ITWebAfrica Story The 185,000 Misunderstanding on .africa

To: The Editor-in-Chief, ITWebAfrica   We thank you for your recent article (Re: ‘The $185,000 dotafrica internet domain name ‘misunderstanding’?’ located at http://www.itwebafrica.com/internet/334-africa/229830-the-185000-dotafrica-internet-domain-name-misunderstanding). Even though your published story written by Mr. Gareth Van Zyl is quite balanced, we wish to use… Continue Reading…

Alice

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Alice Munyau: trying to legitimize a massive cover-up and Fraud

Misrepresenting a non-Community TLD application as the official AUC-sponsored .AFRICA gTLD application for the African Community Alice – You should resign from any official government positions and all Committee posts that you presently occupy including the ICANN GAC In the… Continue Reading…

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Rejoinder & Official Response to Kevin Murphy -DOMANINCITE

DCA believes only ICANN should decide  on DotAfrica (.africa) Dear Mr. Murphy, Our attention has been drawn to your recent Blogged article (Re: “DotConnectAfrica – disconnected from reality?” – retrieved from http://domainincite.com/9802-dotconnectafrica-disconnected-from-reality). We would like to begin by saying how grateful we… Continue Reading…

EAIGF

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DotConnectAfrica Clarifies its .africa bid at EAIGF

The annual East African Internet Governance Forum (EAIGF) event was held recently at the Jacaranda Hotel Nairobi. It was preceded by the Kenya IGF that was held at the same venue a fortnight ago. The meeting was attended by many… Continue Reading…

Prague

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DCA TedBits – Prague Recap, Post gTLD “Reveal”?, New Leadership, what next?

DCA Welcome Fadi Chehade & Bids Farewell to Rod BeckStrom. DCA Joins the entire internet Fraternity in Welcoming ICANN president and CEO , Fadi Chehade. DotConnectAfrica takes this auspicious opportunity to indeed humbly welcome the new CEO and President Mr.… Continue Reading…

Czech

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DotConnectAfrica Reports a Successful ICANN 44 at the Panoramic and Historic City of Prague, Czech Republic !

PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 02, 2012 – Czech Republic, a city whose history of Prague covers more than a thousand years, during which time the city grew from the Vyšehrad Castle to the capital of a modern European state,… Continue Reading…

Uniforum SA

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Press Commentary: DCA Trust & UniForum SA have both applied for the same ‘Africa’ Geographic Name String

14 June 2012 – The attention of DCA Trust has been drawn to a posted news item on the AfricaInOneSpace website titled: “ICANN Agrees …  There is only one applicant for .Africa” (See here ICANN agrees there is only one .africa….… Continue Reading…

African Union

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A Moral Victory: ICANN’s response to African Union

A Strong Vindication for DCA and a sign of things to come! “ICANN is not able to take actions that would go outside of the community-established and documented guideline of the program to provide the special treatment you have requested. ICANN… Continue Reading…

Registry System

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DCA Announces the Establishment of a World-Class Registry System Infrastructure to be located in Nairobi, Kenya

11 June  2012 DotConnectAfrica (DCA) wishes to announce to the global Internet public and Domain Name Industry that it is going to establish a world-class Internet registry system infrastructure to be located in Nairobi, Kenya, the commercial hub of East… Continue Reading…

NewsNewsletters

A Note Of Appreciation :Following the successful submission of the DOTAFRICA new gTLD application to ICANN by DCA Trust

Dear Friends, Colleagues, Associates, Endorsers and Business Partners – On behalf of DCA Trust, I am pleased to inform our Pan-African and Global Internet constituency that we have successfully submitted a new gTLD application for the DotAfrica domain name space… Continue Reading…

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DCA Open Letter to Congress in Defense of the Status Quo on Global Internet Governance Model

4th June 2012 The Honorable Senator John ‘Jay’ Rockefeller IV Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (112th Congress) United States Congress 531 Hart Senate Office Building Washington D.C. 20510 USA Dear Senator Rockefeller, Subject:… Continue Reading…

News

The Empire Fights Back! An Internet Governance Update

Even as we increasingly discover that every facet of our modern lives now revolve around, and are dependent on the Internet, for which reason its availability, functionality, safety, stability and security are now of great and continuing concern to all… Continue Reading…

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