20-25 June 2010-ICANN 38, Brussels

Hosted by ".eu", it will be all about "European Identity" at the ICANN conference in Brussels

DotConnectAfrica is an official sponsor to ICANN 38th . ".Africa" the first African Top Level Domian Name to be sponsored at ICANN International event!.

Left: Sophia with the ICANN Board at gala dinner
Right: Dr. Subbiah, Board Advisor to DCA discussing dotAfrica's work.

ICANN Brussles was a success for DCA, please visit our press room for report.

1-4 June 2010, DotAfrica in Tripoli, Libya

Tripoli, Libya: As the Mediterranean city of Tripoli held its First International Electronic Conference, the Executive Director, was invited to present her views on how PPPs, and how it could assist in the implementation of e-government projects, noting her company's various experiences, including the ".africa" initiative.
Link to conference: http://www.ficeg.org.ly/en/index.php? ".

Left: Ms. Sophia Bekele interviewed by one of the country's leading newspapers, Daily Libyan Newspaper- Aljamahiria http://www.aljamahiria.com/,
For full interview link http://www.scribd.com/doc/34588014/Sophia-Bekele-interview-with-Libya-press Alijamahiria#fullscreen:on

24-28 May 2010 - DotAfrica at Abidjan, Cote d' ivoire

Cote d' ivoire, Abidjan: Jeff Konande interviewed the Executive Director of DotAfrica, one of the premium talk shows in the continent Capital Talk, K24 at the capital city of Abidjan, and asked about the new initiative she was promoting at the ADB conference - the ".africa" domain.
A link to the above interview is featured at newTLD.tv. http://www.newtlds.tv/

DCA was invited delegate for the African Development Bank's annual meeting along with other VIPs, who are there to shape the continent's economic agenda. Far Left: Dr. Ping, Chair of AU & Dr. Mo Ibrahim; Middle:Mr. Gabriel Negatu, ADB Executive; Right: Carl & Son of Goodworks USA; Photo's by DCA.

10-14 May 2010 - DotAfrica in Lagos - the city that never sleeps

DotConnectAfrica unveiled its new logo during a presentation at the AITEC conference in Lagos, Nigeria.

Domain '.africa' to be discussed in the AITEC West Conference.(click) Right with Sean Moroney, organizer

"We will succeed in Uniting Africa", said Executive Director, Sophia Bekele below during her presentation. ".Africa is more that an internet initiative, it is branding africa in a common theme. Lagos is very PanAfrican and we confirmed their support." Press Release

Conference to discuss .africa domain space (click)

The Eko Hotel which was host to both AITEC event as well as Miss Nigeria, turned out an explosive combination of glamour event in the city that never sleeps -Lagos!

7 May 2010 San Francisco USA - INETSF 2010

Theme: Internet trust, challenges and the next 10 years http://www.sfbayisoc.org/INETSF2010

In the current Internet model we are faced with growing challenges of trust. The San Francisco INET will bring together experts from Internet policy, standards, private sector and user community. The goal of this conference is not to find ways to focus on problems with the current Internet trust model but what we want the model to be in the next ten years.

The meeting is free and open to all, but pre-registration is required by April 23rd 2010. Speakers include: Peter Dengate Thrush, ICANN Chairman, Jim Fenton Cisco, Daniel T Dreymann, CEO Goodmail Systems, Dave Lewis, Online Trust Alliance, Zaid Ali President/Chairman SF-Bay ISOC and much more..

11/May/2010: SF-INET a success: Organizers and volunteers included DCA representatives. Articles: political prespective; email & trust perspective

7-12 March 2010: ".Africa" at ICANN's 37 Public Meeting, Nairobi Kenya

http://nbo.icann.org/

THE VENUE, The Kenyatta International Conference Centre Harambee Avenue, NAIROBI

The making of ".Africa" in Nairobi!

1- Setting up banners was only one of the campaign that DCA had for .africa at ICANN.... Left

2- CEO of ICANN Rob Beckstrom took a visit to DotConnectAfrica's partner offices at AmBank House, Nairobi, Kenya. Right

3- Supporters of DCA: Team ".Africa" over 40 local supporters were present at ICANN

Nairobi to support DCA's efforts! below left

4-DCA Exec Director with Katim Tourey, African member of ICANN Board, exhibiting the new ".africa" poster. below right

In Summary, Nairobi held a very successful ICANN meeting for ".africa". DCA's governance model and efforts to date got support not only from the ICANN technical community, but the largesr stakeholder to include government, business & technical community of Kenya. DCA Press Release link

Video links from NewTlds.tv DCA's campaign at the 1% club in Niarobi

7 March 2010 Nairobi: International Women's Day - DCA's Director featured on Carol Mandi's show

A forum "talking about Glass Celling, Myth or Reality", on NTV.

Njeri Rionge, a Board Director at DotConnectAfrica featured, as one of Nairobi's power independent women, on the very popular Carol Mandi's show, Sunday, on NTV of Nairobi discussing the role of women and the topic of glass ceiling, in recognition of International Women's day!

Njeri responded "It is important that the Challenges will be there. Every single women have to decide their path. If there is a superficial glass ceiling, you need to look somewhere to look for your opportunities". She added, "you need to be mentored", Njeri said responding to the audience's Q on how to overcome the glass ceiling" It is good to identify with someone you call as a mentor" continued Njeri "You need to have that conversation" which seem to be her motto when she speaks to all of us and at her Exec coaching work at "Ignite consulting".
DCA wishes all women a Happy International Women's day!

24 Feb 2010 Nairobi Kenya - AITEC Africa: ".africa" domain to aid in Regional Integration!

AITEC Africa: Empowering Africa's ICT Community with Knowledge.
DotConnectAfrica (DCA) is invited and will speak on how creating a .africa domain will aid in regional economic integration and knowledge society; at the Business at the BANKING & MOBILE MONEY COMESA regional top banking conference next month in Nairobi.

Hear also a program on AFRICA PROGRESS interview with Sophia , FM Station, Radio Neitherlands on mobile banking

Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, will open AITEC’s annual Banking Mobile Money Conference for the COMESA region. Also speaking in the opening session will be Professor Njuguna Ndung’u, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya. Read more on who else is attending speakers & delegates: http://www.aitecafrica.com/

It was all about .africa at AITEC Mobile Money Nairobi:

Left: Sophia Bekele, Founder & Executive Director of DCA with Deputy Prime Minister Kenyatta speaking about .africa.

A "Black Swan" of the conference, as stated by Sophia in her presentation, as the unusual amongst the common; was creating the ".africa" domain that took everyone by surprise including the Deputy PM, and the Governor of Central Bank who spent a good amount of time of his closing summary on paralleling the concept of the initiative to that of Nakamura's dreams of a United Africa! and to contact DCA for more information. Presentation link

Right: Sophia Bekele getting rave congrats from Mr. Salim Amin, CEO of Camerapix, Chairman of A24 Media, & founder and Chairman of the famed "Mohamed Amin Foundation (MOFO)", who was also presenting the activities of his organization at the same session.

"This is an amazing concept and a great presentation" said Mr. Amin. So did many of the conference delegates, stating they will sponsor and be co-members and do whatever required to endorse the project.... Above photos by DCA

More news to come ....

25 Feb 2010: Announcement - DCA hand picks its 2010 new appointments for addition to its Preliminary Advisory Board

With more nominations to come, DCA is very honored & proud to have Ms. Njeri Rionge,  S. Subbiah, Ms.Anitha Soni and Mr. Zaid Ali to join DCA at a board advisory capacity.

Left: Njeri Rionge is CEO and Founder, Ignite Consulting & Investment Limited, and Director and Co-founder, Wananchi Online Limited (www.wananchi.com), a leading IP communications solutions provider.  Njeri is a long-term advisor to ICANN. Njeri Rionge was elected to the ICANN Board by the Nominating Committee for two terms, from 2003 through 2008. Important links discussing Njeri's background include: ICANN Profile ; ICANN Wiki ; Linked-in.

Prof Subbiah is a Chairman and Co-Founder of  i-DNS.net International Inc., the venture capital -funded spin-off from National University of Singapore (NUS) that championed IDN. A pioneer on IDN, he coined the term "IDN" while being part of the team from NUS that in 1997/8 invented/developed the original IDN technology. His company is the first company which pioneered i-DNS technology for global deployment of multilingual domain names Dr Subbiah has been involved in Internationalized Domain Names "IDN" movement from back in 1999 and has been responsible for launches of IDN in more than a dozen countries since then.  He has recently launched the IDRU.org, a group of key global language members including DCA.  Prof. is also a long time advisor and follower of ICANN on Domian name policies and understands intimately the registry/registrar business as well as the policy space.  Africa is not new to Prof. Subbiah.  He has worked and travelled throught Africa extensivly and was involved for over a decade. Subbiah has a degree in Mathematical Physics from England and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard. A published author of peer-reviewed articles primarily in the area of computational biology and bioinformatics, he has also founded or co-founded several venture-backed start-ups located in Silicon Valley or Singapore and centered on either Internet/ computing technology or biotechnology.

Anitha Soni, CEO of ASA Tourism Services Group Johannesburg; as a diverse scope of experience, having successfully been involved in both the tourism and technology arenas. She was recently appointed by President of South Africa (SA), Jacob Zuma to be the Chair of the International Marketing Council for South Africa. She is one of South Africa's dynamic and active personality in Business and Economic development.  Hear it out for her most recent work at last month's World Economic Forum at Davos by Money Web and Africa Business News. Anitha was awarded - Business Women of the year - Foundation for Excellence - 1995 in 2002, Business Women of the Year -Black Business Quarterly.  Anitha has exceptional & unique experience in national and international branding of in her work in tourism and technology for development, a combination of skill that is invaluable for branding the "africa' domian name.   As many of us would remember the very first continental radio satellite visio of WorldSpace for Africa, the first Black women to hold a position , Anitha took the challenge as the Managing Director of WorldSpace Afristar Business Unit - providing leadership and strategy directtion to operations in Europe, UK, Africa & Indian Ocean Islands. CEO Profile, Linked-in.

Zail Ali is Director of Technical Operations at Genius.com.  He is also a founding member & president of the SFBAY- ISOC ( Internet Society) chapter.  Zaid's technical, managerial  & international experience is key to DCA's mission.  Linked-in; Zaid Blog.

2-7 March AfTLD meeting

The African Top Level Domains Association (AfTLD), the association of African ccTLDs, hold its 4th Annual African ccTLD event in Nairobi, Kenya from 2 - 7 March 2010 back-to-back with the ICANN 37 Meeting in Nairobi.

25 Jan - 2 Feb 2010: 14th African Union Heads of State & Government Summit: Theme ICT

African Union Summit
Theme of Summit:  Information and Communication Technologies in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development.
Key highlights on ICT
-Africa's booming ICT sector
-Telecoms boss hails President
-Zimbabwe: broadlands to invest U.S.$100 million in infrastructure
-UN hails AU for choosing ICTs as theme of forthcoming 14th summit
Other Highlights
-NEPAD Integrated into African Union Stuctures
-AU declared Peace and Security for Year 2010:
Congratulations:  DCA congratulates the new AU President, H.E. Bingu Wa Mutharika, president of Malawi, upon his election as president of the African Union at the 14th ordinary session of the assembly of heads of state and government of the AU.

6 Nov 2009 Johannesburg: Africa Ministers conference adopts ICT declaration

The extraordinary conference of African Union (AU) ministers in charge of Communication and Information Technologies (CITMC) held in Johannesburg, South Africa, adopted the Oliver Tambo Declaration, on 6 November 2009. The African Union held this extraordinary session in preparation for the 2010 AU Summit dedicated to Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to be held in January 2010 in Ethiopia under the theme "Information and Communications Technologies in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development".  The ministerial conference ended with the adoption (with amendments) of the Oliver Tambo Declaration, Johannesburg 2009 which lays out commitments by AU Member States in the development of ICT, recommendations for the way forward and directives for the African Union to follow up.   The AU ICT session served as a consolidating forum for the ministers of Communications to present to the heads of state and government a common view on ICT development in Africa.  The meeting sought consensus on harmonizing policy, legal and regulatory frameworks at regional and continental level to create an enabling environment to attract investment and foster sustainable development of competitive ICT markets in the continent, more...

24 - 30 October 200 Seoul: ICANN's 36th Public Meeting

The Seoul Meeting:

Major Developments:
The first Internet addresses containing non-Latin characters from start to finish will soon be online by the approval of the new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board.  ICANN's Fast Track Process launches on 16 November 2009. It will allow nations and territories to apply for Internet extensions reflecting their name – and made up of characters from their national language.  If the applications meet criteria that includes government and community support and a stability evaluation, the applicants will be approved to start accepting registrations. To read the entire article check out : http://www.icann.com/en/announcements/announcement-30oct09-en.htm-

Other Significant Milestone: The launch of IDRU. IDRU – the Internationalized Domain Resolution Union – aims to make the Internet accessible in all the world's many script writing systems. That means you will be able to access the Internet in your native language

Briefing Note – Overall Summary of the Seoul Meeting can be read at Seoul-meeting-briefing-Note:

2 October 2009 - Washington, DC, USA

Africa: Hillary Clinton's Remarks at the Corporate Council on Africa's Seventh Biennial U.S.-Africa Business Summit. Video

30 September 2009 - ICANN DOC Affirmation

AFFIRMATION OF COMMITMENTS BY THE UNITED STATESDEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND THE INTERNET CORPORATION FORASSIGNED NAMES AND NUMBERS

09 September 2009 - African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia:

African Union Day: On this very special African Union day, 9 September 2009, which marks the 10th anniversary of the African Union, we gathered to celebrate a special day of Women in Science and Technology. Organized by AU’s Science and Technology and Human Resources Commission (STHR). S&T is one o the key focal area on Africa’s development Agenda, thus in the African Ministerial Conference on S&T (AMCOST) in 2006/2007 made clear & special call to promote the greater participation of women in S&T. Therefore, AU awarded 5 special women scientist, who have remarkable achievements in their sphere of expertise.
AU Commissioner of Science & Technology called for all countries to put forward a percent of their GNP to Science & Technology. He said "If research is to make sense, it should involve every section of society including women. Africa cannot leave this intelligence & dynamism behind."

Present was the EU Commissioner J. Potocnik showing his a firm commitment to Africa through its Joint AU/Africa Research program and “Book of Projects”. The Commissioner spoke of transforming the spirit of donorship to partnership and that partners require not just signing agreements and declarations, but commitment. He reinforced the partnership as “not only our commitment, but our deepest human dignity”.

11 April 2009 - US Trade Representative - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Addis Ababa- Member of US President Obama's Cabinet, Ambassador Ron Kirk is here in Addis with the aim to boost trade relationship between Ethiopia and United States.

During a briefing he gave to journalists today at the conclusion of his visit to Ethiopia Ambassador Kirk said, “I am here because Ethiopia is a key U.S. trading partner in Africa. I am also here because Ethiopia’s story is emblematic of U.S. engagement with all of Africa on trade and development. We have seen progress. ....And we can see the fruits of U.S.

Photo: Amb. Kirk with the DotAfrica Team

efforts to build trade capacity here. Yet, challenges remain.” He said, “we must work together to build trade capacity here and across sub-Saharan Africa. We must work to become full partners in the global trading system.”

"African nations are some of the most important trading partners for U.S. companies," said Scott Eisner, executive director of the Chamber's Africa Business Initiative. "In addition to commercial interests, we cannot forget the geopolitical importance of countries such as Ethiopia.

Photo: Scott Eisner and Ms. Sophia Bekele

22-23 July - 2009, African Union, Addis Ababa Ethiopia

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: African Union - HQ
Following the ministerial meeting at the African Union, Principals of DotConnetAfrica were invited and participated in the experts group workshop re: Harmonization of ICT Policy and Regulatory Framework in Africa. The workshop is to articulate the need for Vision, Leadership and the Role of the different Stakeholders. "Regulatory frameworks in African countries if exist have not been effective, largely due to institutional arrangements that seldom provide regulators with autonomy, independence and legitimacy. It has been difficult to formulate, implement and enforce effective e-strategies and policies due to a lack of specialist expertise, and the inability of the regulators to challenge powerful incumbents and operators. Universal access funds were not disbursed efficiently. Policies that promote pluralistic content have also not been successful due to strong government and private sector interests in the media. ICT regulations in Africa tend to be reactive rather than proactive and policy-makers and regulators have lacked capacity to implement innovative reform agendas", Stated the concept note organized by the Commision of Science & Technology of the AU.
THE WORKSHOP MAIN PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTIVES were:
Aligning ICT policies strategies and regulation with Development; An integrated approach to ICT sector development; Promotion of the reference framework for the harmonization of Telecommunications/ICT policies and regulations; Promotion of capacity building both human and institutional; Coordination and synergies between national, regional and continental frameworks; Benchmarking and monitoring of progress. - Press: DotConnectAfrica: http://www.dotconnectafrica.org/

21-22 May 2009 - Geneva- Switzerland:

World Summit for Information Society (WSIS); co-hosted by ITU, UNESCO, UNCTAD and UNDP. Ms. Sophia Bekele, representing private sector as CEO of CBS International was one of the high-level panelist invited to discuss public private partnership (PPPs) and e- government towards a better Public Service Delivery and Implementation of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Ms. Bekele also presented the experience of CBS International, well known for technology transfer to developing countries, on executing PPP schemes and the challenges/ barriers and way forward.

14 May 2009- China Calls for an End to the Internet Governance Forum

China Calls for an End to the Internet Governance Forum CircleID Thu, 14 May 2009 07:21 AM PDT. There's been a global argument going on for some time now over how the Internet should be governed. Many governments, including China but also many others, are not happy that the "root" of the Internet is controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ), which ultimately answers to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Similar comments were made by our DotAfrica's Exec Director, Sophia Bekele, on the same issue back in December 2008 in reference to DNSSEC Industry Coalition on Network World By sbekele on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 10:40pm. "DNSSEC Industry Coalition is a great movement re: protecting security & stability of the internet. While the coalition seem to be mostly US companies, which in fact house majority of the global domain names; given the policy divide between the West and the rest of the world; also now a hot button of ICANN/ITU cyber security territorial issues, I would assume that the global governmental (GAC) community may in fact be not so happy of DNSSEC deployment at the ICANN root. Global security controlled by US centric policy and US company lobby consortium is not always comfortable to the rest of the world. This, of course considering that GACs are aware of DNSSEC implications to them, and are represented well or active at such policy debates. Sophia Bekele, ICANN Policy Advisor (2005-07)".

4 May 2009: Governmental Oversight by a "G12" ?

Europe: Get the US and other countries out of Internet governance. In the boldest statement yet from European government leaders on the need for globalization of Internet authority, Commissioner Viviane Reding called specifically upon President Obama to allow the US' oversight of the world's domain name authority to lapse after this September, but then to allow the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to become a fully privatized entity. Video
Such an entity, the Commissioner said, would be answerable mainly to the global community of users, represented -- as she foresees it -- by an international tribunal....more By Scott M. Fulton, III

27 April 2009 - "I don't know to" CEO - View from the Top

Executive Director of DotAfrica, also CEO of CBS International was a speaker at the "I don't know to" CEO conference, hosted by Stanford Women In Business Conference:
View From The Top: Changing the Face of Technology -Featuring people that have made great impact!

"Each of the outstanding Panelist have changed the way we think about the Internet and beyond. With its revolutionary technology, Pandora has taken music by storm; YouTube has altered online video and sharing all around the world; Friendfeed is transforming how we learn from our friends' online discoveries; Gmail and Adsense shattered old conceptions of email and online advertising; Shmoop is putting education on a whole new platform; Yahoo! brought the Internet into the hands of the average Joe; and CBS International brings powerful advanced information technology to the developing world, with long-standing initiatives to bring the internet to Africa. How does one little start-up end up improving so many millions of lives? What makes these people passionate about what they do? 
Learn how you can be one of these people whose lives affect the face of technology, says "Press Release by  Stanford Daily more   Right: Sophia Bekele with Exec Dir Wikipedia, Sue Gardner

April 11 2009 - Sacramento California:

The African Leadership Council, Sacramento presented an Economic Forum: "Crisis & Opportunities", looking for answers in tough times. Community . Ms. Bekele was invited to address the Sacramento Community at the state capital on the Global Economic Crisis and its impact on Emerging Economies, and Africa. - Priority Africa Network, April 2009

01 April 2009 - Africa united at the G 20

Africa will speak with one voice at the G 20 meeting to start Today in London, said the African Union Wednesday in a statement. "A common African position and touchable recommendations tell about Africa's decision weigh in the international issues", says the statement. The 53 member countries of the African Union have come up with a common position following a series of meetings. Africa united at the G 20.

Africa will be represented by an AU delegation headed by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, also Chair of New Economic Partership for African Develoment (NEPAD and the President of the AU commission Jean Ping. The global economic crisis originating out of Africa is expected to severely affect the continent. The global downturn is threatening to undo economic progress achieved by African countries and damage their exporting capacities by some $50 billion in 2008-2009, according to AU figures.
El Moudjahid Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:14 PM PDT
Other sources: Inter Press: Global Issues - http://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/03/31/1079

23 March 2009 - SFBAY ISOC celebrated its chapter formation

SF BAY ISOC held its first chapter meeting at a social gathers of members to celebrate its formation on February 16, 2009. DotConnectAfrica was present, as a founding as well as Executive member of the Board. See pictures of celebration event on Facebook link.....

22-27 March 2009 - 74th IETF - San Francisco, CA, USA

DotConnectAfrica participates at The Internet Engineering Task Force -IETF. Join the Internet's Leading Engineers in San Francisco! more on registration and agenda ... Experience first hand the Internet standards process and meet the world's leading Internet engineers, developers and researchers. The meeting will convene at the Hilton Hilton San Francisco on 333 O'Farrell Street and you are invited! This meeting is hosted by Juniper Networks.

10 March 2009 - San Francisco - Internet Governance and the Policy Divide

Tuesday, March 10 -- 5:30-6:30 pm
Golden Gate University, San Francisco: Executive Director of DotAfrica Sophia Bekele, to discuss the emerging field of Internet Governanace and policy divide in her work to promote Internet connectivity in Africa and emerging economies.
....Also, check Bay Area Africa Calendar, Priority Africa Network (PAN)
Save your dates for hot Topics & Speakers in April listed on PAN, including Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, Africa's first elected female head of state.

1-6 March 2009 - ICANN 34 meeting in Mexico City

Follow ICANN meeting at ICANN blog

1. Hot Topic is new gTLDs...
2. Access public forum Thru (Mar.5) online. Submit your Qs on-line by Wed. (Mar. 4) at 5 PM local time (i.e. UTC -6 hours) for March 6th.... participation link

15 December 2008, San Francisco - South Africa Shares its success stories - Says we are working with other African countries to enable the same!

Worlds Affair Council , San Francisco, California

Right: Sophia Bekele wih H.E. David Mohlomi Rantekoa, Embassy of the Kingdom of Lesotho, Washington DC, - Through the use multilateral bodies to ensure that developing countries' voices are heard on international issues, the South African government has played a key role in seeking an end to various conflicts and political crises on the African continent. In Lesotho, women have made great strides in the political arena since independence. In a recent election, women made of 53% of the victorious candidates


Left: H.E. Welile A. W. Nhlapo, from South Africa Embassy, Washington DC, also stationed in Addis Ababa Ethiopia in the past - Having emerged from the international isolation of the apartheid era, South Africa has become an important international actor with the objective to promote the economic, political, and cultural regeneration of Africa.-

6 November 2008, ITU Cairo - ITU and the Increasing Controversy Over Internet Governance

The Council of the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is set to talk Wednesday about the Union's contribution to follow-up of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the third Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

Turkey has tabled a resolution on strengthening the ITU's role in the IGF. The discussion comes at a time when a tense debate between the ITU and its critics has arisen over the best governance models for the internet. The debate culminated in a highly critical speech by ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Touré at a recent meeting in Cairo of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the other "multi-stakeholder" competitor to the ITU. Touré labelled the IGF as becoming "a waste of time sometimes" and criticised the participation of governments in ICANN's Government Advisory Committee (GAC) as being "cosmetic.
ITU and the Increasing Controversy Over Internet Governance

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2 -7 November 2008 ICANN in Egypt

DotConnectAfrica org. and its principlals will be present in Cairo for ICANN's 33rd International public meeting as well as it's annual meeting for 2008. This meetings also marks ICANN's 10th anniversary!! more at this link...

Cairo Conference Recap! Source: ICANN WiKi: There is no doubt THE hot topic for the conference in Cairo, held November 1 through 7, was with the proposed gTLD process. Prior to the conference ICANN produced a comprehensive draft document for the new gTLD program....