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From: van Greunen, Darelle (Ms) (Summerstrand Campus North)
Date: Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:34
Subject: [hci4d] AFRICOMM 2009 - Call for Participation
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AFRICOMM 2009
1st International ICST Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services
for Developing Countries
3-4 December 2009, Maputo, Mozambique
www.africomm.eu
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Venancio Massingue, Minister of Science and Technology, Mozambique
Apala Lahiri, Human Factors International, India
Venansius Baryamureeba, Dean and Faculty of Computing and Information
Technology, Makerere University, Uganda
Danie Kok, Director of Research, SAP Centre, Pretoria
Mark J. Harris, Vice President, CEEMEA Business Development & Africa
Geo Expansion
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SPONSORS
Sponsored by ICST, CREATE-NET, UNDP, Fraunhofer Fokus, IBM, Fundazione
Bruno Kessler and Provincia autonoma di Trento
Technically co-sponsored by UTICT
Media Partner: DiploFoundation
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AIMS AND 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 growing countries.
The aim of this conference is to bring together international
researchers, 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-Government, e-Governance,
e-Infrastructure, and e-Business with a focus on developing countries.
AFRICOMM 2009, the first conference of the series, is organized into
three tracks, two of them organized as Research Tracks and one as
Policy & Governance Track.
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AGENDA
The technical program is available at http://www.africomm.eu/agenda.shtml
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REGISTRATION
The early registration deadline is 15 November.
Please note that students and participants from Africa without a paper
or with a position paper are eligible for complimentary registration.
To register, please visit http://www.africomm.eu/registration.shtml
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Conference General Chair
Radu Popescu-Zeletin, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Conference General Co-Chair
Alessandro Zorer, CREATE-NET, Italy
Technical Program Chair
Lourino Chemane, UTICT, Mozambique
Technical Program Co-Chair
Darelle van Greunen, N. Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
For a complete list of committee members, please visit
http://www.africomm.eu/committees.shtml
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