African legislators pledge to enhance internet governance
Parliamentarians met for a critical capacity-building session aimed at improving internet governance on the continent.
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Rwanda to host world’s biggest internet forum
The ICANN80 Policy Forum will bring together global stakeholders, including governments, companies, civil society, academia, and the technical community.
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ICANN targets Kenya with a $10 million grant program
The grant money is intended to fund projects that promote an inclusive and transparent approach to building robust, user-friendly, secure Internet infrastructure solutions.
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Telecom Egypt, ICANN activate Africa’s second managed root server
The new installation is housed in Telecom Egypt's Regional Data Hub, the company's largest international, Tier III data centre.
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Delays hit .africa sunrise launch phase
Two factors slow the process, resulting in general availability being pushed to late 2014.
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Goodbye .dotafrica and hello .africa
Kenya’s Dot Connect Africa (DCA) officially enters race for Africa’s internet domain name.
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The $185,000 dotafrica internet domain name ‘misunderstanding’?
DotConnectAfrica says it intended to apply for .africa and not .dotafrica from ICANN.