Africa has 17 applications, 4 being geographic gTLDS, including ” .africa” which according the guidebook: “An application for a string listed as a UNESCO regions or appearing on the “Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings” In the case of an application for a string appearing on …
ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé yesterday announced the organization will open its first hub office in Istanbul, Turkey. The announcement marks a significant moment in the evolution of ICANN as it prepares to spread its operational functions across three global headquarters – Los Angeles (current location), Istanbul and Singapore. “ICANN is becoming …
This gadget or app will succeed and this or that trend will become popular. However, isolated tech trend spotting somehow fails to capture a bigger picture. What follows is a fictional attempt to imagine some of the changes that will happen over the next five years and how these will inter-relate with technology. read more
Safaricom has become the first mobile operator in Africa to open up its network for Internet Protocol version 6 testing through its partnership with iHub Nairobi, an initiative aimed at bringing together application and content developers. Safaricom has been running IPv6 on its network for the last year but had not opened the technology up …