Messages and Speeches of Executive Director

December 2010 Message: Seasons Greetings to All. This year, 2010, was a year to remember and has been a productive one for DotConnectAfrica (DCA) and there is much more to come in the next several months. It was also a year that has embedded in it lots of clues about the risks and opportunities that lie ahead, which we want to be sure to mine.  Read more

December 2009 Message: Indeed, we are all hopeful the global trickle-down economic crisis be behind us and we all look forward to many glorious moments. Let me first wish each and everyone of you a very happy and healthy 2010...Read more

June 2007 Message: Dear Colleagues & Friends of Africa.

It is with great pleasure that we initiated the .Africa project early in 2006.I believe strongly that the .Africa project is the beginning of Africa’s map in the digital inclusion.   The .Africa name is to serve as Africa’s Continental Internet Domain Name.    The inspiration comes from all of you.   As Africa transforms to a new millennium with economic opportunities for all of us, the .Africa project is one that, not only unites Africa as a continent in the global sphere, but also empowers each individual with their unique identity to contribute to this great nation.

Also, as one African Diaspora to another, I ask my colleagues to join me in your thirst to fulfill our Continent’s most important current mission.   To call upon you to assist in Africa’s digital inclusion! God Bless Africa!

Sophia Bekele, BS, MBA, CISA, CCS, CGEIT, Policy Advisor to ICANN  (2005-2007), Current ICANN Policy Development steering committee member.

Speeches:

  1. DCA Exec Director on “Freedom of Information as a Human Right” at the GGU, San Francisco
  2. DCA Exec Director provides a Keynote address for AITEC East Africa ICT Summit, Nairobi
  3. DCA Exec Director speaks at Africa 2.0 World Cup Event in South Africa
  4. DCA Exce Director statement to ICANN public forum, Cartegena Colombia
  5. DCA Exec Director .africa project announced at ICANN public forum,Paris
  6. DCA Exec  Director Presentation at GGU: Internet Governance Policy Divide, San Francisco
  7. DCA Exec Director Ms Sophia Bekele Presentation at the African Leadership Retreat, Sacramento
  8. Past presentations and speeches

Conversations & Talks:

  1. KASS International Media speaks to Sophia Bekele on the “Yes2dotAfrica” campaign
  2. Diplomat East Africa unveils Sophia Bekele’s plan for a digital Africa,
  3. Nation TV speaks with Sophia Bekele on Uniting Africa’s Internet Presence and more
  4. CIO East Africa interviews DCA Executive Director Sophia Bekele, on the organization’s role
  5. Jeff Koinange speaks to Sophia Bekele on successful initiation of  “.africa”
  6. Sunday Nations poke to Sophia on her vision: Uniting Africa through IT
  7. DCA Exec Director Sophia Bekele interviewed by Libyan Press Aljamihiriya
  8. Sophia Bekele speaks to Capital Ethiopia, who named her “Africa’s champion for the digital age”.