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

December 11 – 12, 2017 | Lagos, Nigeria
Full Paper Submission Deadline: August 25, 2017 
Workshop, Poster and Demo Submission Deadline: September 17, 2017 

Scope

The ninth edition of AFRICOMM (africommconference.org) will bring 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.

We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to AFRICOMM 2017. They should be in English, following the SPRINGER formatting guidelines (see Initial Submission).

Topics

• 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