dotAfrica Foundation

THE DOTAFRICA FOUNDATION

Establishment of the dotAfrica Foundation encourages the participation of the African stakeholder community, including ccTLDs, Registrars, Technical Communities,Governments and Business in coordinating ICT related socio-economic and enterprise development initiatives in Africa and ensuring that surplus dotAFRICA funds are applied towards pre-defined developmental projects in Africa, under suitable terms.
dotAfrica Foundation

AFRICAN CAPACITY BUILDING AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

  • Establishing a Centre of Excellence to identify and develop DNS expertise in Africa.
  • Promote African thought leadership, technical innovation and develop and share capacity and resources within African TLDs.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN CCTLDS

  • Supporting and promoting the role of AFTLD through the dotAFRICA Foundation.
  • Sharing technology, know-how and resources.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN REGISTRARS

  • Statistics indicate that of the more than 1000 ICANN-accredited Registrars only 5 (five) are based in Africa.
  • The growth and development of a competitive and competent Registrar market in Africa will directly benefit African ccTLDs, promote enterprise development and increase the accessibility to basic Internet resources and infrastructure to the public.

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

  • Utilising dotAfrica as an opportunity to promote African content development.
  • Partnering with content providers, social media vendors, governments and NGOs to drive content development and community buy in.

.AFRICA SUPPORTERS

  • H.E. Amani Abou-Zeid
    H.E. Amani Abou-Zeid, AU

    The .africa gTLD intends to promote African businesses, people and culture on the internet and allowing Africa to contribute towards digital economy.


  • Lucky Masilela
    Lucky Masilela, ZACR

    It is now time to create the next chapter in the .africa story as the general public begins applying for their chosen .africa domains.


  • Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
    Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, AU

    Africa, today you have reclaimed your digital identity. dotAfrica will allow us to tell our own story


  • Mohamed El Bashir
    Mohamed El Bashir, dotAfrica

    A truly inspiring African initiative created by visionary Africans, for the whole world to utilize.


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