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Africa
The launch of the .africa East Africa Campaign
1bn people,
54 countries,
1domain
By Sophia Bekele
Executive Director
DotConnectAfrica
Former Policy Advisor,
ICANN
1. Theme for .Africa campaign
2. State of the African Internet usage
3. The vision of .africa domain
4. The need for Africa Specific Domain
5. Strengthening ccTLDs –impact of .africa
domain
6. Who is DotConnectAfrica?
7. Organizational Structure
8. Governance Representation & Community
9. Achievements/Challenges
10. How do u get involved, aside from being a
consumer?
11. Next Step for you!
• Africa
AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2 010 – www.dotconnectafrica.org
Official launch of the dotafrica East Africa Campaign.:
expand knowledge ,
creation capacity,
advances In science and health.
• Africa
AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2 010 – www.dotconnectafrica.org
aitec.africa
paynet.africa mobilemoney.africa
lagos.africa
safaricom.africa tourism.africa Si.africa
sunmicro.africa pesapal.africa
misys.africa
copycat.africa sevenseas.africa
UnitedBank.africa
visa.africa salamon.ug.africa
safaricom.co.ke.africa
COMESA.africa ecobank.africa
citibank.africa Iveri.africab
Renaissancecapital.africa webtribe.africa Cybercrime.africa allafrica.africa
chamberofcommerce.africa KDN.africa
wildlife.africa icann.africa banking.africa eac.africa
microfinance.africa cooking.africa shoes.africa
Intrepid Data.africa mobicash.africa
USAID.afri gatesfoundation.afric dgi.africa.africa
2020 .africa GrameenFoundation.africa
• Africa
AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2 010 – www.dotconnectafrica.org
Status of TLDs
There are presently 21 gTLDs in the root zone
Experience in past rounds has been factored into current new gTLD
Panning
ccTLDs are currently allocated per reference to the ISO3166-1 list (e.g.
.cn for China, .gr for Greece) IDN ccTLDs being added via IDN ccTLD fast Track
Process • Africa
AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2 010 – www.dotconnectafrica.org
Need for Africa-specific domain
• Currently, Internet users in the Pan-Africa and
African region only have the option of utilizing a
generic TLD (gTLD) whose registrants are dominated
by US and European individuals and businesses, or
country-code TLDs (ccTLDs) that are intended for
local use
• Africa
AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2 010 – www.dotconnectafrica.org
Organizational Structure
Is to be made up of different sponsor organizations:
• Sponsor Members
• Co-sponsor Members
• Businesses
• Non-profit - NGOs
• Other relevant community
organizations in the region
• Africa
AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2 010 – www.dotconnectafrica.org
Interested Sponsor Members & Co-Sponsors
• Africa
AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2 010 – www.dotconnectafrica.org
Governance & Representation of Community
• Africa
AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2 010 – www.dotconnectafrica.org
Achievments to date
• Introduction to Regional Key African organs, and
Governments
• Endorsements by the African Union, Economic
Commission for Africa (ECA) and 20% of African Govt
• Travel Across Africa campaigning, 8 African countries
since February
• Established website with informative content showing
progress and prototype
• Established Newsletter to communicate status/activities
• Established presence on social media sites, Twitter,
Facebook , creating that “generation .africa”
• Mailing list of 600 & growing since February 2010
• Substantial Relevant African Media coverage
• Official Sponsors at ICANN 38 Brussels- The 1st African
TLD to sponsor International conference; EAIGF Kampala
Uganda; AITEC ICT Summit Nairobi • Africa
AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2 010 – www.dotconnectafrica.org
Our promise of putting .africa
on the global digital map
• Africa
AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2 010 – www.dotconnectafrica.org
Challenges!
• Other African groupings that have resisted our applications
• A substantial misrepresentation of our initiative
• PRIVATE SECTOR;
• U.S BASED;
• not an “ICANN” establishment;
• belongs to “individual”
• fake endorsement s
• Africa
AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2 010 – www.dotconnectafrica.org
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AITEC East Africa ICT Summit 2 010 – www.dotconnectafrica.org
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