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:: <small>"..Ms. Bekele, as a former gNSO advisor to ICANN, you have worked hard and long to champion Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). You have made the case within ICANN for a policy development process that will see IDNs in service of the world community. And you have done so successfully.- David Allen Executive Director 05 December 2010, INTERNATIONALIZED DOMAIN RESOLUTION UNION. <ref>[http://www.scribd.com/dotafrica/d/44715292-IDRU-Endorsement-of-Dotafrica-for-DotConnectAfrica-DCA, ::Endorsement of Dotafrica (.africa) Initiative, 05 December 2010]</ref></small>  

:: <small>"..Ms. Bekele, as a former gNSO advisor to ICANN, you have worked hard and long to champion Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). You have made the case within ICANN for a policy development process that will see IDNs in service of the world community. And you have done so successfully.- David Allen Executive Director 05 December 2010, INTERNATIONALIZED DOMAIN RESOLUTION UNION. <ref>[http://www.scribd.com/dotafrica/d/44715292-IDRU-Endorsement-of-Dotafrica-for-DotConnectAfrica-DCA, ::Endorsement of Dotafrica (.africa) Initiative, 05 December 2010]</ref></small>  

::<small>"The call for such Pan-African brand was largely initiated by Sophia Bekele who is no new-comer to spearheading new ways of thinking at ICANN. Years ago, her heroic efforts during her tenure as a newbie GNSO advisor to ICANN, in reversing the disastrous and misguided course that IDN policy took within ICANN at that time is now well documented and clearly attested to by the opposite direction in which the IDN portion of the new GTLD process at ICANN has since gone as bespeaks a true visionary,  while she never been shy of controversy, under her stewardship DCA for the past 5 years continued with unflagging effort to promote the cause and need for  .africa gtld.  The Tireless campaign for .Africa has earned DCA respects in the ranks of internet technology movers and shakers - Dr. Subbiah, Chairman iDNS.net Intl, Ex Stanford University, Co Inventor of IDN<ref>[http://www.dotconnectafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SAB-Support-Letter_SubbiahS.pdf Subbiah]</ref></small>

::<small>"The call for such Pan-African brand was largely initiated by Sophia Bekele who is no new-comer to spearheading new ways of thinking at ICANN. Years ago, her heroic efforts during her tenure as a newbie GNSO advisor to ICANN, in reversing the disastrous and misguided course that IDN policy took within ICANN at that time is now well documented and clearly attested to by the opposite direction in which the IDN portion of the new GTLD process at ICANN has since gone as bespeaks a true visionary,  while she never been shy of controversy, under her stewardship DCA for the past 5 years continued with unflagging effort to promote the cause and need for  .africa gtld.  The Tireless campaign for .Africa has earned DCA respects in the ranks of internet technology movers and shakers - Dr. Subbiah, Chairman iDNS.net Intl, Ex Stanford University, Co Inventor of IDN.<ref>[http://www.dotconnectafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SAB-Support-Letter_SubbiahS.pdf Subbiah]</ref></small>

==Championing the DotAfrica [[.africa]] gTLD Project==

==Championing the DotAfrica [[.africa]] gTLD Project==