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[Melissa Densmore]

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From: Marco Zennaro <mzennaro at ictp.it>
Date: Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:50 AM
Subject: [gaia] CFP: AFRICOMM 2015
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CALL FOR PAPERS
7th International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for
Developing Countries AFRICOMM 2015 -- December 15-16, 2015 - Cotonou,
Republic of Benin http://africommconference.org

SCOPE
Deploying efficient and effective infrastructures and solutions when
limited resources are available is a challenging task and a key-enabler for
the diffusion of ICT in developing countries. The aim of this conference is
bringing together international researchers, students, public officers,
policy makers and practitioners in ICT to discuss issues and trends, recent
research, innovation advances and on-the-field experiences related to
e-Governance, e-Infrastructure, and e-Business with a focus on developing
countries.
SUBMISSION
Contributions should be submitted electronically as PDF to Confy system
http://africommconference.org/2015/show/initial-submission

PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be published in ACM digital library (pending
approval). The proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading
indexing services: DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI
Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus, as well as
ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). Selected papers will be invited to
publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Business.

TOPICS
The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:
• Cloud computing, network function virtualization (NFV) in the
context of developing countries
• Design and analysis of protocols and architecture for developing countries
• Energy-aware ICT infrastructure
• Existing/emerging wireless broadband access technologies, WiMAX, LTE.
• ICT security issues in developing countries
• Overlay networks (such as p2p, bittorent, etc) in developing countries
• Self-managed deployment, operation, maintenance
• Affordable and relevant mobile technologies and solutions
• ICT infrastructures for critical environmental conditions
• ICT infrastructures based on alternative energies
• Applications and business models in such environments, etc
• Ubiquitous networks and environments
• Smart Objects
• Social Networks and e-Government
• Emergency and Disaster Management
• e-Health, e-Learning, e-Agriculture, e-Participation
• Mobile-based computing and services
• Open source models for e-Services
• Geographic Information Systems
• Public sector modernization with ICT
• Governance of ICT projects in developing countries
• Change management, interoperability, and standards
• Innovation management
• Computational and data processing techniques for service delivery in
development context
• Wireless sensor network and applications in developing countries
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: 30 June 2015
- Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2015
- Camera ready: 15 October
- Workshops proposal: 5 June, 2015

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair:
Roch Glitho,Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and IMSP/ University of
Abomey Calavi, Porto Novo, Benin

Local Chair
Jules Degila, IMSP / UAC, Republic of Benin

Technical Program Committee Chair
Marco Zenaro, ICTP, Italy
Fatna Belqasmi, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates Max Agueh, ECE,
France

Web Chair
Abbas Soltanian, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Publicity and Social Media Co-Chairs
Omo Oaiya, WACREN, Nigeria
Marco Zenaro, ICTP, Italy
Ouoba Jonathan, VTT Finland

Workshops Chair
Antoine Bagula,The Western Cape University, South Africa

Publications Chair
Karl Jonas, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Science, Germany
Tegawendé F. Bissywende, University of Luxembourg

Conference Manager
Ruzanna Najaryan, European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)

STEERING COMMITTEE
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy (co-chair) Roch Glitho, Concordia
University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and IMSP / University of Abomey
Calavi, Porto Novo, Republic of Benin (co-chair) Karl Jonas,
Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Science, Germany David Johnson,
Meraka,CSIR and University of Cape Town, South Africa Yacine
Ghamri-Doudane, Universite de la Rochelle, France
 Bjorn Pehrson, KTH, Sweden

ABOUT EAI
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ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to
benefit society. EAI uses open e- platforms to inspire grassroots
collaboration among all relevant actors, from organizations to individuals,
to stimulate community driven innovation to its institutional and
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and craft. Join the innovation community at www.eai.eu

Marco Zennaro, PhD
Telecommunications / ICT for Development Laboratory
the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Strada Costiera 11
34014 Trieste
Italy

Telephone: +39 040 2240 406
Web:          http://wireless.ictp.it


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