AFRICOMM 2011 - AFRICOMM 2011 3rd International ICST Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries

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Deadline: July 03, 2011 | Date: November 23, 2011-November 24, 2011

Venue/Country: Zanzibar Islands, Tanzania

Updated: 2011-04-27 07:02:31 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

3rd International ICST Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for

Developing Countries

Nov 23, 2011 - Nov 24, 2011

Zanzibar Islands, Tanzania

Link: http://www.africommconference.org ?

Endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)

Technically co-sponsored by: Create-NET, Fraunhofer FOKUS, SUZA, FBK

Call For Papers

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: July 3, 2011

Notification Due: August 28, 2011

Final Version Due: September 25, 2011

MOTIVATION

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have proved to offer

immense potential to development. However, designing, developing, and

deploying infrastructures and solutions that are affordable and efficient

when only limited resources are available is a very challenging task.

This presents a setback for developing countries against reaping the

benefits that ICTs offers. AFRICOMM makers in ICT to discuss issues and

trends, recent research, innovation advances and on-the-field experiences

related to e-Infrastructure, e-Governance, e-Business, and enabling policy

and regulations with a deep focus on developing countries.

AFRICOMM invites submission of unpublished and quality research papers with

novel contributions. All submitted contributions will undergo a double-blind

peer review. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and

published by Springer's LNICST series. AFRICOMM 2011, the third conference

of the series, is organized in two research tracks, namely a track in

communication infrastructure and a track on e-services, policy and

regulatory issues. In addition, AFRICOMM 2011 is calling for workshop

proposals on more specific topics of relevance to developing countries. The

workshops will take place in conjunction with the conference.

TRACK 1: COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

This track is dedicated to communication and network technologies that are

of specific relevance to developing countries. The track provides a platform

where key R&D findings and new directions in this field, challenges and

obstacles, business models, and success stories will be discussed and

reviewed. This track is calling for research papers on topics that include,

but are not limited to:

* Design and analysis of protocols and architectures for developing

countries

* Existing and emerging wireless broadband access technologies, such as

WiMAX, LTE, etc.

* Innovations in femtocells, picocells and relay network technologies

* Cognitive radio and advanced spectrum management methods

* Self-managed deployment, operation, and maintenance of IT infrastructures

* Affordable mobile technologies

* Energy-aware ICT infrastructure, e.g., energy aware systems and networking

* ICT infrastructures based on alternative energies

* Network and IT security issues in developing countries

* Overlay networks (such as p2p, bitTorrent, etc) in developing countries

* ICT infrastructures for critical environmental conditions

* Testbeds and reference implementation for exploring and validating

infrastructure requirements and usage

* Critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP)

* Geographic Information systems and applications

TRACK 2: ELECTRONIC SERVICE, ICT POLICY, AND REGULATORY ISSUES FOR

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

This track provides an opportunity to share and compare experiences,

perspectives, issues, and opportunities related to the use of web-based and

mobile services to foster development. The track also provides a venue to

disseminate findings, experiences, and recommendations on how policy and

regulatory issues impact on development. This track is calling for research

papers on topics that include, but are not limited to:

* Experiences and applications in areas such as: e-health, e-learning,

e-agriculture, e-government, and e-participation

* ICT for development

* Mobile-based services and applications

* Mobile computing for next generation phones

* Emergency and disaster management

* Open source and open source models for e-services

* Participatory design and living labs

* E-services for environmental sustainability

* Change management, interoperability, and standards

* ICT policy and regulations

PUBLISHING

Accepted papers will be published in the AfriComm Conference Proceedings and

by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The proceedings

will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital

library, and will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services,

including DBLP, Google Scholar, ISI Proceedings, EI, CrossRef and

Zentralblatt Math, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL,

http://eudl.eu).

SUBMISSIONS

The page limit for research papers is ten pages (Track 1 or 2) and two-pages

for posters and demos. All contributions should be formatted according to

the LNICST Conference Publishing Services formatting instructions, including

figures and references. Workshop proposals should constitute of not more

than two pages detailing the objectives of the workshop and its relevance to

developing countries, and names and contacts of the workshop organizing

chairs. All submissions must be in English. Please visit the conference

website for detailed submission instructions:

http://www.africommconference.org. One author of each accepted contribution

will be required to register and present the work at the conference.

STEERING COMMITTEE

Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), CREATE-NET, Italy

Salomao Julio Manhica, UTICT, Mozambique

Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy

Paolo Traverso, FBK, Italy

Alessandro Zorer, CREATE-NET, Italy

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Honorable Chair

Radu Popescu-Zeletin, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

General Chair

Karl Jonas,Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

TPC Chair

Idris A. Rai, Makerere University, Uganda

TPC Chair - Communication Infrastructures in Developing Countries

Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada

TPC Chair - Track on Electronic Service, ICT Policy, and Regulatory Issues

for Developing Countries

Adolfo Villafiorita, FBK Center for Information Technology, Italy

Darelle Van Greunen, NMMU, South Africa

Sponsorship Chair

Alessandro Zorer, CREATE-NET, Italy

Local Chair

Omar Fakih Hamad, University of Dar-es-salam, Tanzania Adnan Ali, State

University of Zanzibar, Tanzania

Publicity Chairs

Eva Sittig and Wolf Konrad, Fraunhofer, Germany

Workshops and Demos Chair

Dirk Elias, Fraunhofer, Portugal

Posters and Panels Chair

Hans Schotten, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TPC)

Hisham Abdelsalam, Cairo University, Egypt

Max Agueh, ECE Paris, France

Rui Aguiar, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal

Abdelfettah Belghith, National School of Computer Sciences (ENSI), Tunisia

Dennis Bjiwaard, Inertia Technology, The Netherlands

Tony Bulega, Makerere University, Uganda

Patrick Chikumba, University of Malawi, The Polytechnic, Malawi

Andy Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Kevin Doolin, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland

Babakae Farshchian, SINTEF ICT, Norway

Dirk Elias, Fraunhofer Portugal Research Center, Portugal

George Ghinea, Brunel University, UK

Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada

Darelle Van Greunen, NMMU, South Africa

Omar Fakih Hamad, University of Dar-es-salam, Tanzania

Ayman Hassan, Orange, France

Janardhan Iyengar, Franklin and Marshal College, USA

Karl Jonas, Franhofer FOKUS, Germany

Mathew Kam, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Joseph Kizza, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, USA

Santhi Kumaran, Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, Rwanda

Tayeb Lemlouma, Irisa, France

Jude Lubega, Makerere University, Uganda

Tshilidzi Marwala, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Sougata Mekherjea, IBM Research, India

Edwards Mutafungwa, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Faiza Najjar, National School of Computer Sciences (ENSI), Tunisia

Manuel Urueda Pascual, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Idris A. Rai, Makerere University, Uganda

Andy Rice, Cambridge University, UK

Anthony J Rodriguez, University of Nairobi, Kenya

Leila Azouz Saidane, National School of Computer Sciences (ENSI), Tunisia

Julianne Sansa, Makerere University, Uganda

Hans D. Schotten, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Guy Tanonkou, ACSAL Luxembourg

Kentaro Tokoyama, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Bill Tucker, University of Western Cape, South Africa

Isabella Venter, University of Western Cape, South Africa

Adolfo Villafiorita, FBK Center for Information Technology, Italy

Komminist Weldemariam, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy