Buruchara

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Mr. Sammy Buruchara, Former Chairman of DCA Appointed as the Kenyan GAC Representative to ICANN

Mr. Sammy Buruchara of Kenya, who also served as Chairperson of DotConnectAfrica’s Global Strategic Advisory Board has been appointed as a member of the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) representing the Republic of Kenya PRLog (Press Release) – Mar. 14,… Continue Reading…

DCA registry

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DCA Registry Services makes its voice heard at the ICANN Africa Strategy Addis Ababa

DCA registry services and its UK Partner CentralNic participated at the African Mufti-stakeholder Internet Governance meeting held at the UNECA Conference Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 6-8 March 2013 PRLog (Press Release) – Mar. 10, 2013 – DCA Registry… Continue Reading…

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The IBCA called for inclusion of African Businesses at ICANN Africa Strategy meeting in Addis Ababa

African Businesses ICANN Strategy The Internet Business Council for Africa (IBCA) was discussed at the Multistakeholder Internet Governance Conference at UNECA Center in Addis Ababa, echoing the inclusion of he African Private sector and received the support of many key… Continue Reading…

DOMAININCITE

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DCA Exclusive Commentary:Rejoinder Part II & Official Response to Kevin Murphy -DOMAININCITE

5th March, 2013   To:         Mr. Kevin Murphy Editor-in-Chief, Domainincite.com   Dear Mr. Kevin Murphy,   DOMAININCITE Subject: Domain Incite agrees that “if UniForum did lie to the AU and other governments about submitting a Community application, it’s within the… Continue Reading…

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Rejoinder and Official Response to Kevin Murphy -DOMAININCITE

2nd March, 2013 To:         Mr. Kevin Murphy Editor-in-Chief, Domainincite.com Dear Mr. Kevin Murphy, Subject:   Our Rejoinder to your article on DCA’s Complaint to U.S. Congress Kevin Murphy The attention of DotConnectAfrica (DCA) Trust has been drawn to your recent Blog… Continue Reading…

internet

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Welcome 2013 – The Year of Internet Governance: A New Year’s Message from our Executive Director of DotConnectAfrica Trust

Internet Governance 2013 Welcome to 2013! As we inaugurate a new year, I decided to peer through what may be ahead of us in 2013, and here is what I would share with you. DotConnectAfrica’s New Years wish: MegaTrends, Black… Continue Reading…

2012

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Season’s Greetings! A Year in Review, 2012 – Yes2dotAfrica Campaign!

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…

Prioritization Draw

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DotConnectAfrica Participates in ICANN lottery draw ranking 1005 for .africa – A Historic Milestone

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…

DCA 5 year Anniversary

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DCA Newsletter – A Five Year Anniversary

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…

Baku IGF

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DotConnectAfrica E-Participates at the Baku IGF 2012 – Contributes to ITU changes

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…

.Africa gTLD

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Good Bye .DOTAFRICA A significant landmark Victory in the battle for .Africa gTLD

.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…

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

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…

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

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…

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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