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==Background==

==Background==

The African Union held an Extraordinary Session of the African Union Conference of Ministers in charge of Communications and Information Technologies on November 5, 2009, in Johannesburg, South Africa<ref>[http://www.eafricacommission.org/whats-new/news/06/11/2009/extraordinary-conference-au-ict-ministers Extraordinary Conference of AU ICT Ministers, eafricacommission.org]</ref> in order to discuss the benefits of a .africa TLD with representatives from the African community at large. As a result of the session, a resolution was adopted, called The Oliver Tambo Declaration, to "establish dotAfrica as a continental Top-Level Domain for use by organizations, businesses and individuals with guidance from African Internet agencies." The declaration was further endorsed at the Head of States and Governments Summit in January, 2012.

The African Union held an Extraordinary Session of the African Union Conference of Ministers in charge of Communications and Information Technologies on November 5, 2009, in Johannesburg, South Africa<ref>[http://www.eafricacommission.org/whats-new/news/06/11/2009/extraordinary-conference-au-ict-ministers Extraordinary Conference of AU ICT Ministers, eafricacommission.org]</ref> in order to discuss the benefits of a .africa TLD with representatives from the African community at large. As a result of the session, a resolution was adopted, called [[The Oliver Tambo Declaration]], to "establish dotAfrica as a continental Top-Level Domain for use by organizations, businesses and individuals with guidance from African Internet agencies." The declaration was further endorsed at the Head of States and Governments Summit in January, 2012.

At the Third Ordinary Session of the African Union Conference of Ministers in charge of Communication and Information Technologies, held in Abuja, Nigeria, in August 2010, a resolution called the The Abuja Declaration was adopted, which requested that the AU "set up the structure and modalities for the Implementation of the DotAfrica project." To implement this decision, the AU set up a DotAfrica Task Force composed of knowledgable African representatives from the industry, which made the following two recommendations: 1) for the AU to apply for .africa through the first round of ICANN's New gTLD Program, and 2) for the AU to make a public call for EOIs to run the domain name on behalf of the AU. Through this process, the AU selected UniForum SA.<ref>[http://africainonespace.org/content.php?id=1&title=The%20African%20Union%20and%20dotAfrica The African Union and dotAfrica, africainonespace.com]</ref>

At the Third Ordinary Session of the African Union Conference of Ministers in charge of Communication and Information Technologies, held in Abuja, Nigeria, in August 2010, a resolution called the [[The Abuja Declaration]] was adopted, which requested that the AU "set up the structure and modalities for the implementation of the DotAfrica project." To implement this decision, the AU set up a DotAfrica Task Force composed of knowledgeable African representatives from the industry, which made the following two recommendations: 1) for the AU to apply for .africa through the first round of ICANN's New gTLD Program, and 2) for the AU to make a public call for EOIs to run the domain name on behalf of the AU. Through this process, the AU selected UniForum SA.<ref>[http://africainonespace.org/content.php?id=1&title=The%20African%20Union%20and%20dotAfrica The African Union and dotAfrica, africainonespace.com]</ref>

==Steering Committee==

==Steering Committee==