Subject: [gaia] CFP: AFRICOMM 2015

From: Marco Zennaro <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 09:50:19 +0200

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

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

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