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The Dakar “Africa Agenda” Masquerade
=== Say "NO" to the ARC-African Registry: The Leopard Cannot Change its Spots===
=== Say "NO" to the ARC-African Registry: The Leopard Cannot Change its Spots===
DCA started this awareness about the African Union introduction of an Expression of Interest to run .africa. The Communiqué was issued to clarify its position on DotAfrica stated that it will float an Expression of Interest process to short-list bidders to be endorsed for DotAfrica, and as of Week 20 of 2011 . This was regarded an unnecessary effort and also it was evident that the EOI process had been discredited, and considered a step to officially hijack the DotAfrica Initiative using supposititious African Union official machinery also termed 'AU-led'-process, to favour AfTLD. <ref>[http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs053/1102516344150/archive/1106696043739.html The Leopard Cannot Change its Spots: Say "No" to the ARC-African Registry ]</ref>
DCA started this awareness about the African Union introduction of an Expression of Interest to run .africa. The Communiqué was issued to clarify its position on DotAfrica stated that it will float an Expression of Interest process to short-list bidders to be endorsed for DotAfrica, and as of Week 20 of 2011 . This was regarded an unnecessary effort and also it was evident that the EOI process had been discredited, and considered a step to officially hijack the DotAfrica Initiative using supposititious African Union official machinery also termed 'AU-led'-process, to favour AfTLD. <ref>[http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs053/1102516344150/archive/1106696043739.html The Leopard Cannot Change its Spots: Say "No" to the ARC-African Registry ]</ref>
[[File:The_Dakar_Africa_Agenda_Masquerade.jpg|right|upright|[[The Dakar “Africa Agenda” Masquerade]]]]
===Say "NO" to the ARC: The Illegitimate 'African Agenda' for Dakar ===
===Say "NO" to the ARC: The Illegitimate 'African Agenda' for Dakar ===
During the [[ICANN]] 42nd Meeting held from 23rd to 28th October 20 11 in Dakar Senegal, there was an 'African Ministerial Round-Table' meeting that was organized as a preICANN organized from the 19th to 21st October 2011supposedly to generate an 'African Agenda' as a resolution that will be presented as an input to the official [[ICANN]] 42 Meeting. However What [[DotConnectAfrica]] found to be suspect and worrying about theextra-ordinary meeting of experts was the role being played by Mr. Pierre Dandjinou and the nexus that has been established between Monsieur Dandjinou and the newly formed African Registry Consortium (ARC) with an avowed diabolical intention of hijacking DotAfrica.
During the [[ICANN]] 42nd Meeting held from 23rd to 28th October 20 11 in Dakar Senegal, there was an 'African Ministerial Round-Table' meeting that was organized as a preICANN organized from the 19th to 21st October 2011supposedly to generate an 'African Agenda' as a resolution that will be presented as an input to the official [[ICANN]] 42 Meeting. However What [[DotConnectAfrica]] found to be suspect and worrying about theextra-ordinary meeting of experts was the role being played by Mr. Pierre Dandjinou and the nexus that has been established between Monsieur Dandjinou and the newly formed African Registry Consortium (ARC) with an avowed diabolical intention of hijacking DotAfrica.
This became an early warning of the expected results of the meeting that resulted in the communiqué to ICANN for the reservation of .africa related names that was later rejected <ref>[http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs053/1102516344150/archive/1108039247315.html DCA Exclusive: Say No to the ARC; The Illegitimate 'African Agenda' for Dakar]</ref>
This became an early warning of the expected results of the meeting that resulted in the communiqué to ICANN for the reservation of .africa related names that was later rejected <ref>[http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs053/1102516344150/archive/1108039247315.html DCA Exclusive: Say No to the ARC; The Illegitimate 'African Agenda' for Dakar]</ref>
===History of Commentaries===
===History of Commentaries===
DCA used rejoinders and commentaries to offer clarifications and responses behind .africa initiative and its related activities, particularly focusing to those online media reports which DCA believed were manipulating public opinion.
DCA used rejoinders and commentaries to offer clarifications and responses behind .africa initiative and its related activities, particularly focusing to those online media reports which DCA believed were manipulating public opinion.
====DCA Commentary: Applicant Responses to GAC London Advice on .Africa====
DotConnectAfrica made a response to the second GAC Advice that initially was issued during the ICANN GAC Meeting in Beijing China, and prior to that, there was a GAC Early Warning.
DCA noted that the ICANN 50 GAC Advice as well as other recent communications between the GAC and ICANN concerning the dispute over .africa, demonstrated both the African Union's inappropriate efforts to determine the outcome of the applications for .africa and ICANN's improper acquiescence to the GAC's demands. We strongly urge ICANN not to accept this advice.
DCA also noted that the GAC's advice that ICANN should simply delegate .africa to ZACR once the IRP has been completed (regardless of what the Panel decides) is highly inappropriate. It assumes that the IRP concerning .africa is mere window dressing, an empty formality put in place so that ICANN can claim that it is meeting its obligations of transparency and accountability, but which will have no effect whatsoever on the presumptive delegation of .africa to the party favored by the GAC.
DCA deduced that based upon the discussions during ICANN 46 in Beijing and ICANN 50 in London, these new members, including the AUC, do not appear to have been educated by ICANN on the critical documents namely, the gTLD Applicant Guidebook, the ICANN Bylaws and the IRP process which is — by contract — the only independent method of review available to any applicant under the new gTLD program.<ref>[http://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/applicants/23may13/gac-advice-response-1-1165-42560-en.pdf DotConnectAfrica Trust Responds to ICANN 50 GAC Advice, Updates on .Africa Application IRP Status]</ref><ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/news/irp/dca-v-icann Independent Review Process].</ref><ref>[http://allafrica.com/stories/201401221336.html DCA Trust Takes '.africa' Case With Icann to Independent Review Process Panel].</ref><ref>[http://www.cio.co.ke/news/main-stories/dca-trust-takes-%E2%80%9C.africa%E2%80%9D-case-with-icann-to-independent-review-process-irp-panel DCA Trust takes “.africa” case with ICANN to Independent Review Process (IRP) Panel].</ref>
====DCA Commentary on Alice Munyua: STOP Misrepresenting and Distorting Facts to the African ====
====DCA Commentary on Alice Munyua: STOP Misrepresenting and Distorting Facts to the African ====
This campaign was written to clarify the issues that had been misrepresented by Alice Munyua on the non-Community TLD application by ZACR and informed as the official AUC-sponsored .AFRICA gTLD application for the African Community <ref>[http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs053/1102516344150/archive/1110673257683.html Alice Munyua: STOP Misrepresenting and Distorting Facts to the African]</ref>
This campaign was written to clarify the issues that had been misrepresented by Alice Munyua on the non-Community TLD application by ZACR and informed as the official AUC-sponsored .AFRICA gTLD application for the African Community <ref>[http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs053/1102516344150/archive/1110673257683.html Alice Munyua: STOP Misrepresenting and Distorting Facts to the African]</ref>
====DCA Commentary: Applicant Responses to Beijing GAC Advice on .Africa====
DCA objected to the Beijing GAC objection, their application received a GAC Objection advice which they submitted a response to the New gTLD Program Committee which subsequently gave recommendation that the GAC advice be followed. However the NGPC also gave the organization a channel through which they would appeal by seeking relief according to ICANN’s accountability mechanisms (see ICANN Bylaws, Articles IV and V) subject to the appropriate standing and procedural requirements.
DCA refused to back down even after the ICANN committees recommendations thereby they contacted the African Union as well as ICANN. DCA also requested for a Reconsideration which ICANN denied prompting that organization to begin the Independent Review Process which is currently proceeding.<ref>[http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/gac-advice GAC Advice Response]. Published 2013 May 22. Retrieved 2013 May 22.</ref>
====DCA Commentary: Applicant Responses to GAC Early warnings on .Africa====
DCA were given received 17 early warnings in November 21, 2012, these were among 240 individual GAC Early Warnings issued in relation to 200 new TLD applications which accounted for 162 unique strings. The warnings which when analyzed were noted to be of similar verbatim were received from African countries namely, Comoros, Kenya, Cameroun, DRC, Benin, Egypt; Gabon, Bourkina Faso, Ghana, Morocco, Mali, Uganda, Senegal, South Africa, Nigeria and Tanzania and the African Union.
In their December 12, 2012 response to the GAC early warnings, DotConnectAfrica noted that they believe that the governments were teleguided (or manipulated) into submitting these GAC Early Warning Advice, and as such, cannot really be considered as authentic in most cases. They added that It was simply the outcome of a coordinated action which African country governments are being coerced to support, and we believe that actual governmental consultations with respective African country governments has not been done in many cases.<ref>[http://www.dotconnectafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Response-to-the-ICANN-GAC-Early-Warning-Advice-against-the-.Africa-Application-Submitted-by-DotConnectAfrica-Trust.pdf GAC Early Warning Response]. Published 2012 Dec 5. Retrieved 2012 Dec 5.</ref>
====DCA Exclusive Commentary: The "ICANN Africa Strategy" Is Not the Same as African Agenda====
====DCA Exclusive Commentary: The "ICANN Africa Strategy" Is Not the Same as African Agenda====