DotConnectAfrica has submitted yet another response to the GAC. This is the third response after the response to the GAC Early Warning in November 2012, and the detailed response to the GAC Objection Advice that came out of the ICANN GAC Meeting in Beijing, China. All the responses are well articulated defense to the unending …
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) has been heavily criticized on its latest new gTLD advice to DotConnectAfrica’s application. During the recently concluded ICANN 50 international meeting, the GAC provided new advice through London Communiqué asking the following: The ICANN Board to provide timely communication to the affected parties, in particular to provide clarity on the …
DotConnectAfrica (DCA) Trust has written to the new AU leadership raising ethical and accountability issues on how the endorsement process was handled from its inception within the African Union institution. In the letter dated August 2, 2013 the Company asks the AU leadership to “review and investigate the role that the AU has played in …
DotConnectAfrica’s objection application treatment at ICANN and the hands through which the application passed, makes for a very interesting governance case at ICANN. Owing to the highlighted conflict of interest cases in the past, its hard to determine how transparent and impartial it remained in determining the application’s destiny. At ICANN Board Level: Advice that …
From ICANN’s guidebook Module 3,”ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee was formed to consider and provide advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN’s policies and various laws and international agreements or where they may affect public policy issues.” It continues to …