[Community] Fwd: EAI Africomm2015: 4 days left till submission deadline

[Omo Oaiya]

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Subject: EAI Africomm2015: 4 days left till submission deadline
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 06:28:18 -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
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 deliveryin
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
- 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 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

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