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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>
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>
On April 4th, 2012, [[Dr. Elham M. A. Ibrahim]], the Comissioner of Infrastructure and Energy of the African Union informed Uniforum SA, trading as ZA Central Registry (ZACR) of its official appointment as the "Official Applicant and Registry Operator for [[dotAfrica]] [[gTLD]]. [[UniForum SA]]/[[ZACR]] submitted all application materials to [[ICANN]] on June 13, 2012."<ref>Hurter, Eddie. ''Separating Fact from Fiction in the Joust for the new dotAfrica gTLD''. 2015</ref>
Their mission and objective was outlined in their application and include:
* establishing a world class domain name registry by engaging African technology and expertise
* creating a [[gTLD]] that marks Africa's online identity, and reflects the continent's rich diversity and potential
* positioning the [[dotAfrica]] [[gTLD]] as the preferred option for citizens and business located in Africa or strongly associated with the continent
* emphasizing that the new [[gTLD]] would be "by Africa, for Africa"
[[ZACR]]'s application succeeded its initial step toward the [[dotAfrica]] [[gTLD]]. [[ICANN]] and [[ZACR]] completed the official [[dotAfrica]] [[gTLD]] Registry Agreement at the [[ICANN 49 - Singapore]] meeting, March 24th, 2014.
==Steering Committee==
==Steering Committee==