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::<small>"Bekele was very influential in drafting the IDN policy guidelines as well as developed a framework for leading a ::language group.  This required contentious and controversial matters with complicated political and commercial implications and ::interests. Ms Bekele strongly advocated and further went on to aggressively bring the voices of the global public of early ::adapters of IDN businesses and countries who implemented IDNs to the policy of ICANN", said Mr. Yoav Karen, then Member of ::ICANN's President IDN Advisory Committee, Current ICANN gNSO Council member and Executive member of IDRU.<ref>[http://www.scribd.com/doc/101440288/ICANN-IDN-Recommendation-DomainTheNet, Testimony of Sophia Bekel's IDN work at ICANN]</ref></small>

::<small>"Bekele was very influential in drafting the IDN policy guidelines as well as developed a framework for leading a ::language group.  This required contentious and controversial matters with complicated political and commercial implications and ::interests. Ms Bekele strongly advocated and further went on to aggressively bring the voices of the global public of early ::adapters of IDN businesses and countries who implemented IDNs to the policy of ICANN", said Mr. Yoav Karen, then Member of ::ICANN's President IDN Advisory Committee, Current ICANN gNSO Council member and Executive member of IDRU.<ref>[http://www.scribd.com/doc/101440288/ICANN-IDN-Recommendation-DomainTheNet, Testimony of Sophia Bekel's IDN work at ICANN]</ref></small>

:: <small>"..Ms. Bekele, as a former gNSO advisor to ICANN, you have worked hard and long to champion Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). You have made the case within ICANN for a policy development process that will see IDNs in service of the world

:: <small>"..Ms. Bekele, as a former gNSO advisor to ICANN, you have worked hard and long to champion Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). You have made the case within ICANN for a policy development process that will see IDNs in service of the world

::community. And you have done so successfully. Executive Director 05 December 2010, INTERNATIONALIZED DOMAIN RESOLUTION UNION,<ref>[http://www.scribd.com/dotafrica/d/44715292-IDRU-Endorsement-of-Dotafrica-for-DotConnectAfrica-DCA, ::Endorsement of Dotafrica (.africa) Initiative, 05 December 2010]</ref>.</small>  

::community. And you have done so successfully. Executive Director 05 December 2010, INTERNATIONALIZED DOMAIN RESOLUTION UNION,<ref>[http://www.scribd.com/dotafrica/d/44715292-IDRU-Endorsement-of-Dotafrica-for-DotConnectAfrica-DCA, ::Endorsement of Dotafrica (.africa) Initiative, 05 December 2010]</ref>.</small>  

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::<small>"The call for such Pan-African brand was largely initiated by Sophia Bekele who is no new-comer to spearheading new ways of ::thinking at ICANN. Years ago, her heroic efforts during her tenure as a newsbie GNSO advisor to ICANN, in reversing the ::disastrous and misguided course that IDN policy took within ICANN at that time is now well documented and clearly attested to by ::the opposite direction in which the IDN portion of the new GTLD process at ICANN has since gone"<ref>[http://www.dotconnectafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SAB-Support-Letter_SubbiahS.pdf Subbiah]</ref></small>

::<small>"The call for such Pan-African brand was largely initiated by Sophia Bekele who is no new-comer to spearheading new ways of ::thinking at ICANN. Years ago, her heroic efforts during her tenure as a newsbie GNSO advisor to ICANN, in reversing the ::disastrous and misguided course that IDN policy took within ICANN at that time is now well documented and clearly attested to by ::the opposite direction in which the IDN portion of the new GTLD process at ICANN has since gone"<ref>[http://www.dotconnectafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SAB-Support-Letter_SubbiahS.pdf Subbiah]</ref></small>