AFRICOMM 2017 - 9th EAI International Conference on e‐Infrastructure and e‐Services for Developing Countries

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Category e-Governance, e-Infrastructure, and e-Business with a focus on developing countries.

Deadline: June 12, 2017 | Date: December 11, 2017-December 12, 2017

Venue/Country: Lagos, Nigeria

Updated: 2017-05-23 18:21:52 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Submission deadline: 12th JUNE 2017

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.

AFRICOMM 2017 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or experimental results on e-Infrastructures and e-Services for developing countries. Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. Accepted papers will be published in Springer digital library.

Highlights

The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT.

All accepted papers will sent for publishing in Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries.

Proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: EI, ISI Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings at Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Accepted Authors will be invited to submit extended version of paper into following journals:

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Future Internet

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