[Community] Fwd: EAI Africomm2015: Submission deadline extended till July 15, 2015

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Subject: EAI  Africomm2015: Submission deadline extended till July 15, 2015
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 20:38:39 -0400
From: glitho at ece.concordia.ca
To: omo at wacren.net, mzennaro at ictp.it, ext-jonathan.ouoba at vtt.fi

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: 15 July 2015

- Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2015

- Camera ready: 15 October, 2015

- 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

Barbara Fertolova, 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 AbomeyCalavi, 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



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