Main Theme: Innovation, Development and Traditional Knowledge

TREE is an interdisciplinary conference that favors empirical research and mathematical model building for sustainable development. Although the primary focus of the conference is the sustainable development and prosperity for Africa, best practices from other parts of the world are most welcome as a way to enrich the debate.

We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to TREE 2018. They should be in English, following the EAI formatting guidelines (see Initial Submission).

Publishing

All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

Accepted authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work into one of the following EAI Endorsed Transactions:

Emerging Technologies and Pedagogies for Educations
Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems
Security and Safety

Indexing: EAI conferences are indexed in 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).  

Topics (non-exclusive)

Innovation, Governance and Environmental Sustainability

There is a new “scramble on Africa” as firms that tend to be mostly subsidiaries from multinational corporations compete for natural resources and raw material in Africa. How could CSR help firms contribute to sustainable development?

Innovation, Resilience and Food Security

Despite the fact that most African countries have a lot of fertile land, Africans experience either lack of food or malnutrition and various forms of food insecurity.

Innovation and Traditional knowledge

How could intellectual property be fostered so as to first promote the development of traditional knowledge as a common good, and then to allow for a fair competition in the modern sector?

Important dates:

Full Paper Submission Deadline: November 3, 2017

Notification Deadline: December 15, 2017

Camera-ready deadline: January 21, 2018

Start of Conference: March 21, 2018