“We are doing it again” #STEM4girls NAIROBI, Kenya – July 21, 2016 — In a #STEM4girls Pan-African campaign, the Miss.Africa program is mobilizing a Round II Seed Fund for Tech initiatives in Africa that will avail small grants to support women and girls in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields to launch or expand their own initiatives that…
March 15, 2016, Mauritius Africa: The Miss. Africa Initiative, a pan-african trust program of DotConnectAfrica (DCA) announces its winner of the Miss.Africa 2015 USD 5000 Seed Fund as eMobilis. DCA Trust received an overwhelming number of applications of over 90 applicants from more than 18 Countries in Africa across the African continent to apply for the Miss.Africa Seed Fund. In…
“Please mainstream women into your efforts. The gender gap is more pronounced in the developing world, where according to ITU, 16% fewer women than men use the Internet, compared with only 2% fewer women in developed world. What this means is, if you can create services that can be attractive to serve the gender gap, you can leverage these numbers…
Sophia Bekele the DCA Executive Director was invited to give a Key Note speech at the annual Girl’s ICT day on 24th April 2014 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia organized by International Telecommunication Union (ITU). International Telecom Union PRLog – April 24, 2014 – UPPER HILL, Kenya — Despite, she was not able to attend the African Union premises where…
The campaign for DotAfrica started by DCA making a keynote address to the panel and audience gathered during the launch of the East Africa “.africa” campaign at the AITEC ICT summit held in Nairobi, Kenya. DCA spoke on way-forward on the contribution of the “.africa” name to an ICT enabled environment. Followed by a dotAfrica panel discussion composed of DCA,…
A fun part of the ICANN meeting is the ICANNWiki! ICANNWiki was founded by American Internet Entrepreneur Ray King as a grassroots project, involving community efforts to compile articles on people, companies, and organisations related to ICANN and the domain name industry. In every ICANN meeting, ICANNWiki collects brief biographies of participants in their booth , furnished with a chair…
Nov. 13, 2011 – The 42nd international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) took place in Dakar, Senegal, at the Le Meridien President hotel. The meeting was hosted by the Government of the Republic of Senegal and was well-attended by government leaders and executives of ICANN, and various stakeholders. DotConnectAfrica (DCA) was one of the…