Major Milestones
Novermber 14, 2011 Yes2dotAfrica Campaign Triumphs at ICANN-42 meeting in Dakar Senegal! at ICANN-42 meeting in Dakar Senegal, the first ever ICANN meeting in a Francophone country. Read More
Generation.africa on their high at the 6th IGF held in Nairobi, Kenya The most successful IGF meeting ever, over 2000 delegates and over 300 remote participants from across the globe, including our generation.africa team and volunteers. Read More
October 02,2011 DotConnectAfrica at the Munich Conference of new gTLDs in Munich Germany The Successful Yes2dotAfrica Campaign invited to Munich, Germany Read More
DotAfrica (.africa) made History with ICANN in Singapore! DotConnectAfrica, a leading campaigner for the dotafrica TLD, was present at ICANN’s recent event in Singapore and made history with the announcement for the approval to launch new gTLDs. Read More
June 21, 2011 Enterprise Technology(ET) magazine names Sophia Bekele as .africa Champion SOPHIA BEKELE: Ethiopian champion of the .africa initiative Read More
June 20, 2011 DotConnectAfrica, a leading campaigner for the dotafrica TLD, was present at ICANN’s recent event in Singapore and made history with the announcement for the approval to launch new gTLDs Read More
May 9, 2011 DCA served notice that it will frontally challenge any acts of illegality that are orchestrated by any affiliated AU Task Force members who use insider privileges and access to facilitate an illegal scheme that would grant AfTLD an AU endorsement to run dotAfrica. Read More
February 2011 DCA issues expression of Interest for the .africa Registry
DCA issues an EOI for a registry partner for technical and operational services for the planned .AFRICA Top Level Domain, that is consistent with the road-map of ICANN’s requirements Read More
January 2011 DCA made the case to US Department of Commerce for the .africa gTLD.
DotConnectAfrica has sent an open letter to the NTIA making a preliminary case for the .africa gTLD Read More
December 2010 DCA endorsed by IDRU
DotConnectAfrica is endorsed by IDRU – the Internationalized Domain Resolution Union, an organization that is represented by the original IDN Top Level Domain pioneers. Read More
December 2010 Announcement of the initiation of the Pan-African Social Media Infrastructure
DCA announced the setup of its Pan African social media profiles that provides content in English,French and Arabic to the Pan African community on Facebook-DotAfrica ,DotAfrique, DotAfriqya; On Twitter-DotAfrica, DotAfrique, DotAfriqya ;on Slideshare ,on Youtube , Wikispaces, Flickr and on Podcasts
2010 Yes campaign launched in Kenya
DotConnectAfrica spoke on way-forward on the contribution of the “.africa” name to an ICT enabled environment, during the launch of the East Africa “.africa” campaign at the AITEC ICT summit held in Nairobi, Kenya.
June 2010 First African TLD applicant to sponsor European event
DCA was one of ICANN event sponsors, the first African TLD to sponsor an ICANN International conference Read More
August 2009 DCA endorsed by the African Union Commission(AUC)
The 14th Ordinary Summit of the African Union heads of state and Government that took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the theme Information Communication Technology from 25 Jan to 2 Feb 2010 gave endorsement to the “.Africa” domain name. Read More
August 2008 DCA endorsed by the Economic Commission for Africa
The Economic Commission for Africa, which coordinates activities of African Ministers within the continent, gave endorsement to DCA’s efforts and proposal Read More
June 2008 DCA announced its intentions in Paris
Ms. Sophia Bekele, the Executive Director of dotafrica presented to the public forum the status of the project’s progress to the ICANN Board during the ICANN PARIS meeting. Read More
Feburary 2008, DotAfrica posted its position in support of the mid-term review of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA ) to the Office of Internal Affairs, of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, in Washington DC
January 2008, DotAfrica was introduced and presented to ITU officials in Africa. ITU recommended to the AU commission the project on dotafrica. ITU admittedly stated they were pleased with DCA’s initiative and one they heard only from us.
January 2008, DotAfrica was introduced and presented to the leadership of the African Development Bank in Tunis.
December 2007, DotAfrica was introduced and presented to the leadership of World Bank in Washington DC and S.Africa offices.
December 2007, DotAfrica was introduced and presented to the leadership of the African Union Mission Washington DC, USA.
September2007 DotAfrica was introduced formally to ITU HQ office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
August 2007, DotAfrica was introduced and presented to the “Connect Africa” summit organized by ITU and hosted by Kigali Rwanda. It was introduced it formally to the top management of ITU and its Secretary General of ITU. The staff of ITU recommended we work with ITU HQ office for Africa, which is Addis Ababa. Read More
March 2007, DCA initiated DotAfrica with AfrICANN
Ms Sophia Bekele presented and discussed the DotAfrica Initiative with the AfriICANN group during the ICANN meeting in Lisbon,Portugal in 2006 Read More
June 2006, DCA presented the dotafrica TLD to ICANN African Board members
Ms Sophia Bekele presented the dotAfrica proposal to the ICANN African Board members.
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