Boasting a groovy music scene, great beaches, well-worn colonial history in its buildings plus wildlife and wonderful hospitality, Senegal is one of West Africa’s principal attractions. The country has great valleys, national parks, abundant plant life and wildlife. Ever since freeing itself from the rule of France in 1960, Senegal has served as a showcase for democracy in Africa.  ... 

With the latest applicant record falling at 290 in the TAS , there is critical information that applicants needed to gather and from the New gTLD Program Update session here are just a few of the information that you might just need to go as you go on with your application: An interesting factor among the new application round is the existence of a defensive gTLD application: this is defined... 

Generation.africa Keeping the yes2dotafrica Campaign alive “Politicians think of the next election, DCA thinks of the next generation” Founder generation.africa Announcing the birth of dot.africa generation, The East African, 2010 The Dotafrica Generation soon to be born, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 2010 Heralding the Birth of the DotAfrica Generation, Ethiopian Reporter, 2010 Pregnant... 

As a stakeholder in the new Africa that is being built, it is with great pride and honor that DCA wishes to seize this special opportunity to join all well-wishers and congratulate all the African peoples through the Africa Union as we celebrate this auspicious AFRICA day. A more relevant Africa today will own the future. We share the thoughts and visions of the founding fathers of this day and... 

DCA will be attending this event at NARALO in conjenction with ISOC SFBay and ICANN 40.   Link to ICANN Conference and agenda:  http://svsf40.icann.org/ DCA will also be having a .“.africa” BarCamp. Look for our next announcement or those wearing “generation.africa” t-shirts to inform you where we will be. Read Full Story at DCA Archives here  Read More →

DotConnectAfrica joined women from all over the world to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8. “The agenda to secure gender equality and women’s rights is a global agenda, a challenge for every country, rich and poor, north and south.”  Michelle Bachelet, executive director of UN Women . Read full story here The International Women’s... 

It all started with DCA making a home in Nairobi, after being invited by AITEC to speak at its conference.  Then followed by the making of  DotAfrica in Nairobi ICANN. The rest became history as our footprints were recorded by the African media following us wherever we went, as the renowned Jeff Koinange said:  ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME. The “.africa”... 

Let me first wish each and everyone of you a very happy and healthy 2010. Indeed, we are all hopeful the global trickle-down economic crisis be behind us and we all look forward to many glorious moments. In this launch of our first newsletter for DotconnectAfrica (DCA) I want to thank the hundreds of you who  support DCA the organization that has put the effort for the successful initiation... 

Dr. Vint Cerf, Founder of the Internet & VP Internet Evangelist Google, Sophia Bekele, ICANN GNSO Board Member, CEO CBS International. Other news: 23 April 2008:CEO of CBS International on an exclusive tour of HQ of Google Corp  hosted by Dr. Vint Cerf, one the founders of internet and former Chairman of ICANN Read More  Read More →