Awards and Recognitions

Happy New Year, 2023!

“10 Most Powerful Women Leaders in Business to Follow, 2023” READ the full article

DotConnectAfrica (DCA), named as the "Best Digital Education in Africa".

At end of July 2022, Read our entire press release here

100 Most Influential African Women

100 Most Influential African Women list in 2022 by the Leading African PR & Rating firm, Avance Media Africa.. READ the full article

2021 Women Of Influence Award

For the WOI Award, she added: ‘Real “Influence” carries value-based leadership’. READ the full article

Message on International Women’s Day

Listen to the insightful message from our Founder Ms. Sophia Bekele, Read our International women’s day newsletter at

With over a decade of transforming lives and businesses via technology in Africa and across the Globe and leading her organization with passion and grit, Bekele has received many accolades and recognition for her work.

In 2023, the US-based CIO Views dubbed Sophia Bekele “An Influential & Fearless Trailblazer in Technology Leading Business on Her Own Terms”. Sophia was also recognized and awarded as one of the “10 Most Powerful Women Leaders in Business to Follow, In 2023, US-based Success Pitchers Magazine selected her for their cover feature story as a “Serial Lifestyle Techprenure, Changing Lives and Businesses through Innovation”.
In 2022, She was enlisted as one of the “100 Most Influential African Women Leaders & Pioneers” by the Leading African PR & Rating firm, Avance Media, noting “Sophia is among the Most Influential African Women, working to inspire the continent through her Excellence business leadership and performance, Personal accomplishments, her commitment to sharing knowledge and her continuous effort to break the gender digital divide in Africa”.
In 2021, Sophia was dubbed 2021 Women of Inﬂuence Honoree, by Silicon Valley Business Journal, celebrating women of outstanding achievement in their industry and community. She was also honored with the 2021 CEO Today Africa Awards for exceptional business leadership and growth, and for those individuals who shine as examples of excellence when faced with unprecedented challenges.
in 2018, Africa Link honored awarded her with the Champion of Development Award at the 2018 Solidarity Awards in Switzerland
In 2017, the TU/UN Equals in Tech Awards program was named a finalist for the Hundreds of young women and girls’ tech initiatives that have benefited 12 African Countries from support by Miss.Africa Digital Seed-Funding impact program. Noting her significant contributions to the industry, in 2017, CIO East Africa named her “Industry Trailblazer” and “Internet Governance Pioneer”.
In 2015, she was widely acclaimed as one of the “Two Leading ladies” in Africa’s ICT sector and “African Women to Watch” by Bloomberg TV, recognizing women as “most fearless, competitive and visionary African women of our time and “the women working hard to close the gender gap and shaping the continent’s social, political and economic landscape”.
In 2014, ADIPWE enumerated her as one of the “Top 20 Inspirational African Diaspora Professional Women in Europe” for her work in technology transfer from the West.
In 2013, she was named as one of the “50 African Trailblazers – a Future Made in Africa” by the NewAfrican Magazine, noting all her accomplishments, including initiating, organizing, and leading the wildly acclaimed and successful 6-year Yes2DotAfrica multi-lingual global awareness ground and social media campaign for the “.africa” Internet domain name, which held a position of top 50 topmost attractive new domains from among 1930 global domains by industry rating agency, also earning her a title “brains behind .africa’, by African media.