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The Internet Governance Issue
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DotConnectAfrica
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19 September 2014 Internet industry updates, policy trends, tips, and news on Africa...
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UPDATE
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AFRICA
ICANN
DCA UPDATE
INDUSTRY
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Register your .africa
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Tech solutions from Africa:
The next big thing:Unbridled enthusiasm for mobile phones, an up-and-coming Internet scene, a population where every second person is younger than 25 - all this represents fertile breeding ground for digital innovation.[more]
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Tech can give women to fight for their rights
Tech can give women the space to fight for their rights Big talk should be combined with small-tech advances to help the world's poor women, says Henrietta Miers. Read [more]
#Africa: Inside the Continent's New $14bn Social Media Industry
According to the 2014 "Emerging Nations Embrace Internet, Mobile Technology" report by the Pew Research Global Attitudes Project, approximately 78 percent of internet usage in Africa is for social media.
 Mobile Data is the Core of Africa's Telephone Growth
Mobile data subscriptions in sub-Saharan Africa are expected to significantly overtake that of voice by 2019.[more]
BBC: Africa's mobile boom powers innovation economy: Innovation is happening all over Africa in all different sectors, from education to energy, banking to agriculture. [more]Africa hungry for homegrown online content(CNN) --- Things have never been more exciting in Africa than they are now...Reportedly, around 140 million people in Africa have access to the internet, which represents about 13% of the population That number is set to explode in the next few years.[more]
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69th UN General Assembly September 24, 2014
"Ethiopia fastest growing country in Africa also Best
effective Peace Keeping place in the World. We expect to partner in Health and Economy in general"
President Obama
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US-Africa Summit
Echoes more on how the USA does not know about Africa [ Full Read]
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ICANN Brief - FOCUS on NTIA Transition - Who should Govern the Internet?
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Fadi Chehade, CEO of ICANN
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ICANN's Proposed Bylaws
Changes Regarding Consideration of GAC Advice brings in a slew of opposition. Read More
ICANN Tells U.S. Court That ccTLDs Are Not "Property" The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has told a U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, that a country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) cannot be considered "property." Read more
ICANN Community Issues Unprecedented Letter Questioning ICANN's Proposed Accountability Process The entire community of ICANN stakeholders has sent a joint letter to CEO Fadi Chehade and the ICANN Board that strongly questions the "Enhancing ICANN Accountability and Governance Read more
ICANN's .IR Response Opens Legal Can of Worms: ICANN has filed its initial response to writs of attachment issued by U.S. Courts that seek to have ICANN transfer control of ccTLDs of Iran, Syria and North Korea to plaintiffs in various legal actions.. Read More
End of ICANN contract puts Internet freedom at risk, critics say: The freedom and openness of the Internet are at stake after the U.S. government announced plans to end its contractual oversight of ICANN, some critics said Read more
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Seen & Heard
Kenya: Mike Macharia, Founder of Seven Seas Technologies, a Kenyan based Pan-African ICT multinational has partnered with SafariCom to help enhance national county govt's service delivery and offer integrated communications solutions to Safaricom enterprise & mobile consumer segments, more.
South Africa: Justin Chinyanta, founder & Chairman of the Loita Group (Loita Holdings Corporation Africa), a pan-African investment banking firm based in Mauritius is appointed as an independent non- executive director who brings strong commercial and project finance experience to the board, says the Board of JSE-listed R15.34-billion revenue infrastructure company Big Five more.
 USA: GNSO Constituencies Issue Unanimous Joint Statement on ICANN writes Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal of Virtualaw LLC, a Washington, DC Law and Public Policy Firm, His latest in the ICT industry. more
 UK: Ben Crawford, Chief executive, CentralNic, DCA's backed-Registry provider named Business Person of the Week, says Medium-sized businesses need more support to stop them from falling over the tax cliff more
Nigeria: Chima Onyekwere, Chairman, Linkserve, a pioneer internet service provider, says that unlicensed spectrum has been proven over time to be stable in service provisioning as Experts Call for Use of Unlicensed Spectrum for Rural Internet in Nigeria more
Ethiopia: Sophia Bekele of DCA Trust:
A24 Media gets The Scoop from Sophia Bekele, being a serial entrepreneur, top 50 African trailblazer and being fondly referred as AddisHilton. View Video
Kenya: Gideon Rop of DCA Registry at the Hague Institute of Global Justice, Netherlands, talks on the inevitable need for leapfrogging for Africa and other developing nations, saying that no one is going to wait for Africa to catch-up on internet and governance
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DCA .africa Application IRP Status & news: 
Note: For details of IRP Proceedings please go to this link on our website.
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 Industry Brief: New gTLD Update
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The FCC Receives in excess of 3 Million Comments on Net Neutrality : The FCC has received more than 3 million comments concerning the current net neutrality notice of proposed rule-making (NPRM). More
Internet Business Council for Africa participates at the EU-Africa 2014 Business Forum, Brussels. Read
Internet of things the way of the future in a connected world: VETERAN Cisco chief executive John Chambers believes the internet of things has just turned View Video
Using the internet of things to be energy efficient Technology giants work towards establishing themselves in the market for the internet of things, More
NetNames: .New gTLD's Will Overtake .Com/.Net Registrations By 2020 The internet is currently undergoing one of the biggest changes since its inception, with over 1,000... More
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