New paper submission deadline – 8th October 2024!

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About AFRICOMM 2024

Internet and ICT infrastructure are quite vital in order to improve e-government services and to close the digital dividend for suburban, rural, and deep rural regions. AFRICOMM 2024 aims to bring together researchers, academia, industry, and policymakers together.

Topics

1. ICT Infrastructures and Systems

  • Optical Fiber and Packet Optical Networks and Services aspects
  • Wireless and Cellular networks
  • IoT, NB-IoT, MTC, etc,
  • Distributed Antenna Systems
  • Existing/emerging wireless broadband access technologies, WiMAX, LTE.
  • ICT infrastructure for critical environmental conditions

2. Internet Services and Emerging Technologies

  • MEC, Cloud, Edge, Fog computing
  • Services based on Big data, AI, ML, RL, DL, etc.
  • IoT and Cybersecurity
  • Privacy by design, Self-disclosure and privacy regulation
  • Web 3.0, Web3, Semantic, ontology, etc.
  • 5G Technology / Beyond 5G
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
  • Blockchain
  • Smart cities, social networks
  • e-Government and e-services 
  • Big data, IoT, Blockchain and applications

3. Remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems

  • Terrestrial Satellites i.e., LEO, MEO, GEO, etc.
  • Geodesy, Navigation, and Remote Sensing
  • Drone and geospatial technologies
  • Biometrics, shape and object detection and recognition
  • Signal and image processing and restoration
  • Speech and audio processing

Publication

All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, IO-Port, MatchSciNet, Inspec and Zentralblatt MATH.

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:

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About EAI

This event is organized by EAI.

EAI – European Alliance for Innovation is a non-profit organization and a professional community established in cooperation with the European Commission to empower the global research and innovation, and to promote cooperation between European and International ICT communities.

EAI’s vision is to foster excellence in research and innovation on the principles of transparency, objectivity, equality, and openness. Our guiding principle is community cooperation to create better research, provide fair recognition of excellence and transform best ideas into commercial value proposition.

EAI‘s mission is to create an environment that rewards excellence transparently, and builds recognition objectively regardless of age, economic status or country of origin, where no membership fees or closed door committees stand in the way of your research career.

Through these shared values, EAI leads the way toward advancing the world of research and innovation, empowering individuals and institutions for the good of society to fully benefit from the digital revolution.

Round two

Full Paper Submission deadline
8 October 2024
Notification deadline
28 October2024
Camera-ready deadline
8 November 2024

Last Track

Full Paper Submission deadline
31 August 2024
Notification deadline
30 September 2024
Camera-ready deadline
15 October 2024

Late Track

Full Paper Submission deadline
15 July 5 August 2024
Notification deadline
29 August 2024
Camera-ready deadline
15 October 2024

Main Track

Full Paper Submission deadline
15 June 2024
Notification deadline
21 July 6 August 2024
Camera-ready deadline
15  15 October 2024
Start of Conference
27 November 2024
End of Conference
29 November 2024

Previous AFRICOMM editions

2023 – Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
2022 – Zanzibar, Tanzania
2021 – Virtual conference
2020 – Virtual conference
2019 – Porto-Novo, Benin
2018 – Dakar, Senegal
2017 – Lagos, Nigeria
2016
 – Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
2015 – Cotonou, Benin
2014 – Kampala, Uganda
2013 – Blantyre, Malawi
2012 – Yaounde, Cameroon
2011 – Zanzibar, Tanzania
2010 – Cape Town, South Africa
2009 – Maputo, Mozambique

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