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.Africa : Africa’s new Internet Online .Africa : Africa’s new Internet Online IdentityIdentity
Mohamed El BashirChair, Steering CommitteedotAFRICA
I-Week 2012, Cape Town 10-14 September 2012
ICANN & New gTLDs
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers “ICANN”
Responsible for the coordination of the Internet’s system of unique identifiers
Ensure the stability and security of the Internet
ICANN meeting Singapore 2011– open up the Internet for new Top Level Domains
Applicant Guide Book – stringent guidelines on the application process, infrastructure & financial criteria, etc
http://newgtlds.icann.org
New gTLD Applications - .Anything
ICANN new gTLD application process January – April 2012
Application fee of $185 000
ZACR handed in only application for .africa on behalf of the AUC & African Continent
ICANN received over 1900 applications for new gTLD, i.e. .africa, .mtn, .dstv, .africa magic, .supersport, .music, .movies, .horse …etc
17 applications received from the Africa
What is (.Africa ) ?
Continental Top Level Domain (TLD) for Africa for the use by the entire African continent & the world
To be used by organizations, governments, business & individuals who associate themselves or their business with Africa
Access to a huge pan-African customer base using one unique name space
Online Branding and Marketing Opportunities e.g safricom.africa, mtn.africa, hotels.africa, music.africa, sports.africa movies.africa, banks.africa, soulof.africa, ilove.africa
Who We Are?
Steering Committee
African Union
National Governments
InterGov. Organizations
Registry Provider
ccLTD Registries African ICANN Accredited Registrars
African Internet Society Chapters
AUC & dot AFRICA
Oliver Tambo Declaration – “establish dotAfrica as a continental Top Level Domain for use by organizations, businesses, & individuals with guidance from Internet agencies”
Abudja Declaration – “AUC requested to set up the structure and modalities for the implementation of the dotAfrica project”
African Union Commission “AUC” issued an RFP in December 2011 for the selection of an African entity to apply and manage .Africa new TLD
AUC endorsed the proposal of ZA Central Registry ( Uniforum SA) as the selected registry operator for .Africa as a result of it’s tender evaluation process
ICANN GeoTLD Requirements
provide a documentation of support or non-objection from relevant government(s) or authority (ies)
60% of Governments Support Required by ICANN
Support Letters received from 72% of Africancountries
Steering Committee Responsibilities:
Project Oversight
Political, Moral and Ethical leadership (Governance)
Strategy
Policy Development
Awareness, Communication and Marketing
Steering Committee Members: Mohamed EL Bashir, Chair
• ccTLD Community : – .bi ccTLD– .ml ccTLD – .ke ccTLD – .eg ccTLD
• Registrar Community : Hamza Abou Elfeth ( Genious NET )
• Technical Community : Adiel Akplogan (AfriNIC )
• African Internet Community at-large : oAbraham Djekou ( COTE D'IVOIRE )oMs. Maimouna Diagne Diop ( SENEGAL )oRachida Fakhri ( MOROCCO )oTijani Bin Juma ( AfRALO , TUNISA )
• AUC : o Moctar Moctar Yedaly, Head of Posts & Telecommunication (AUC) oMoses Bayingana (AUC)
• ZACR : Neil Dundas
dot AFRICA Foundation:
o Post ICANN new gTLD delegation our objective to establish a non-profit organization “dot African Foundation
o Open, Diverse and Multi-stakeholder
o dot Africa Foundation objectives : dot Africa TLD Policy Development; Setting the policies and procedures for dot Africa projects grants; Distribute surplus revenues of dot Africa In Internet/ICT Projects Monitor the progress of dot Africa Projects
Relationship Matrix (Community Level).AFRICA
Sponsor
AUC
African Entities :
INTERNET COMMUNITY & ICANN
Registry OperatorZACR
DotAFRICAFoundation
Strategic PartnerAFTLD
ZACRSteerCom
OTHER SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONSIndividual ccTLDs, African Registrars, Technical Community,
Technology Providers, Internet Leaders (individuals)
Relationship Matrix (Operational).AFRICA
Sponsor
AUC
African Entities :
Policy Advisory Group
PAG
ccTLD Development
AFTLD
AFRICA
Registrars
Delegation Authority
ICANN
COMMUNITY
RAR Development
Partner
ZACRRegistry Operator
DotAfrica Foundation
INTERNATIONAL
Registrars
Africa in One Space
oFacebook : facebook/africandomain
oTwitter :twitter.com/africandomain
oWeb : www.africainonespace.org
oOpen Community mailing list : [email protected] (subscribe on website)