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July 13, 2010
As part of the Inagural African Leadership Retreat in CapeTown and Johannesburg, DCA was invited to present the ‘.Africa’ project and partake a panel discussion that was set to REBRAND the African continent Trevor Manuel, (RIGHT) currently serving in the… Continue Reading…
June 4, 2010
Tripoli, Libya: As the Mediterranean city of Tripoli held its First International Electronic Conference, the Executive Director, was invited to present her views on how PPPs, and how it could assist in the implementation of e-government projects, noting her company’s… Continue Reading…
May 30, 2010
<strong><strong id=”sm”>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.</strong></strong> Ms. Bekele said, “the role of DCA was… Continue Reading…
May 28, 2010
Cote d’ ivoire, Abidjan: Jeff Konange interviewed the Executive Director of DotConnectAfrica on one of the premium talk shows in the continent Capital Talk, on K24 TV at the city of Abidjan, and asked about the new initiative she was… Continue Reading…
May 14, 2010
DotConnectAfrica unveiled its new logo during a presentation at the AITEC conference in Lagos, Nigeria. Domain ‘.africa’ to be discussed in the AITEC West Conference. “We will succeed in Uniting Africa”, said Executive Director, Sophia Bekele below during her presentation.… Continue Reading…
May 5, 2010
At the public forum held on Thrusday that represented the collective Board of ICANN Chaired by PETER DENGATE THRUSH, Chairman of ICANN, much of the Nairobi technical community represented by businesses and civil society expressed strong support for the ‘.africa’… Continue Reading…
April 16, 2010
Brussles ICANN 38: Brussels, the capital of the European Union (EU), a 27 member organization along with dotEU will host the 38th meeting of ICANN, the California based nonprofit, which oversees the fate of the new Generic top-level-domains (gTLDs) such… Continue Reading…
April 6, 2010
DotConnectAfrica had been given various opportunities to participate in forums in many regional conferences based in Nairobi. AITEC Africa’s conference on Mobile Banking COMESA who was host to DCA reported DCA’s presentation of ‘.africa’ to be equivalent to Nakamura’s vision… Continue Reading…
March 8, 2010
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. The CEO of ICANN Rod… Continue Reading…
February 18, 2010
The current endorsement by African Heads of State and Government built upon the 2-5 November 2009 Ministerial Conference held in Johannesburg, South Africa, where the Council of African Internet Communication Technology (ICT) Ministers gathered, discussed and acknowledged the benefit of… Continue Reading…
February 16, 2010
Silicon Valley is in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home tomany of the world’s largest technology companies including Apple, Cisco, Google, HP, Intel and Oracle. “Perhaps… Continue Reading…
February 4, 2010
The 14th Ordinary Summit of the African Union Heads of State & Government that took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 25 Jan to 2 Feb 2010, under the theme Information Communications Technology (ICT) gave endorsement to the “.Africa” domain name.… Continue Reading…
December 9, 2009
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 Africa’s map in… Continue Reading…
March 23, 2009
DotAfrica – Branding African Unity – A common Vision
June 22, 2008
Ms. Sophia Bekele, the Executive Director of dotafrica was present in ICANN PARIS on behalf of the DotAfrica project that the DotConnectAfrica organization has been leading. She presented at the public forum the status of the project’s progress to the… Continue Reading…
April 10, 2008
At the public forum held on new gTLDs, 8 December 2010, DotConnectAfrica made the following statement to the Board of ICANN and the participating public. Given that the public forum is limited two minutes, DCA has submitted to ICANN for… Continue Reading…
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