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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

Technical Program Committee Chair
Fatna Belqasmi, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates

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
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Universite de la Rochelle, France
Bjorn Pehrson, KTH, Sweden

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