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December 23, 2012
As Executive Director of DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust) and spearhead of the Yes2DotAfrica Campaign, it gives me great pleasure to send this end of year 2012 message at Christmas to our entire Pan-African constituency and global community of supporters and… Continue Reading…
December 19, 2012
PRLog (Press Release) – Dec. 19, 2012 – DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA) in its mover to secure the .africa string in order to set up the first ever African based gTLD registry has participated in the ICANN New gTLD Prioritization Draw… Continue Reading…
December 6, 2012
DCA Five Year Anniversary Celebrating our five (5) year Newsletter Anniversary: In this issue: Buenos Aires, Toronto, Baku, ICANN Africa Strategy, IBCA, Heard & Seen and more… A Note From Founder Dear Readers, DotConnectAfrica Celebrates Five (5) years of informative and concise news… Continue Reading…
November 13, 2012
PRLog (Press Release) – Nov 12, 2012 – The meeting’s main theme was: ‘Internet Governance for Sustainable Human, Economic and Social Development ’. Internet experts and advocates from around the world attended the conference. The Baku IGF comes at a… Continue Reading…
November 4, 2012
.Africa gTLD Victory November 02, 2012, Toronto, Ontario Canada: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has officially approved the Change Request made by DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust) for its .Africa (DotAfrica) gTLD Domain Name String application. The… Continue Reading…
October 26, 2012
ICANN Africa Plan 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… Continue Reading…
October 24, 2012
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…
October 19, 2012
ICANN-45 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 &… Continue Reading…
October 11, 2012
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…
October 1, 2012
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…
September 27, 2012
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…
September 11, 2012
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…
September 8, 2012
Bizarre twist 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… Continue Reading…
August 27, 2012
ITWebAfrica 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… Continue Reading…
August 7, 2012
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…
July 30, 2012
Murphy 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… Continue Reading…
July 27, 2012
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…
July 13, 2012
Prague 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… Continue Reading…
The DotConnectAfrica (DCA) group is a Pan-African organization that was formed with an objective to advance education in the digital economy in the African society. In connection with this objective, to also benefit the general African public access to Internet resources including assisting our stakeholders with their digital transformation and branding Africa on the Internet.
Post its inception, DCA has progressively adopted a very unique integrative model of Internet-centered digital products and services encompassing web related services, to include eCommerce, DNS businesses, mobile applications along with digital marketing services on an integrated digital social media platform of Internet of Things (IoTs) to service its clients and stakeholders.
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