.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? Who We Are?

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 – ..ng ccTLD – .eg IDN 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 Foundationdot AFRICA Foundation

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

Our Focus Areas:Our Focus Areas:

Our Focus Areas:

dot AFRICA Communitydot AFRICA Community

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

Participate. Engage. Participate. Engage.

Africa in One Space

oFacebook : facebook/africandomain

oTwitter :twitter.com/africandomain

oWeb : www.africainonespace.org

oOpen Community mailing list : community@dotafrica.org (subscribe on website)

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