Program of the Fourth EAI IEEE AFRICOMM Conference in Cameroon
November 12-14, 2012, at the University Yaoundé I
November 12 – DAY 1 | |||
8:00 – 9:00 | Registration | ||
9:00 – 10:00 | Opening Ceremony Impresario : Dr. Thomas Djotio Speakers : Prof. Awono Onana, Director ENSP (welcome address) Prof. Maurice Tchuente, Local Chair Prof. Karl Jonas, Chair Prof. Maurice Aurélien Sosso, Rector UYI | ||
10:00 – 10:30 | Invited Talk chaired by Thomas Djotio Gertjan van Stam: ICT challenges in rural Africa and the impact of social aspects | ||
10:30 – 10:45 | Health Break | ||
10:45 – 12:15 | Session 1: e-Infrastructure chaired by Karl Jonas BEST PAPER AWARD Sami Ruponen, Juha Zidbeck: Testbed for Rural Area Networking – First Steps towards a Solution Herve Ahouantchede, Fatna Belqasmi, Roch Glitho: SNS4D: An OnLine Social Network System for Developing Countries Thomas Djotio Ndie: RuKaCS: A Community Services and Proximity Networks Project Framework for Bridging Digital Divide in Rural Cameroon | ||
12:15 – 14:00 | Lunch | ||
14:00 – 15:30 | Session 2: e-Infrastructure chaired by Roch Glitho Thomas Otieno Olwal, Moshe Timothy Masonta: Achievable Capacity Design for Irregular and Clustered High Performance Mesh Networks Adebayo I. Aderonmu, Adegnandjou H.Rotimi ,Moshe T. Masonta ,and Mjumo Mzyece: VHF Spectrum Monitoring Using Meraka Cognitive Radio Platform Jacqueline Mpala, Gertjan Van Stam: Open BTS, a GSM experiment in rural Zambia | Session 3: e-Services chaired by Thomas Djotio Rodrigue Carlos Nana Mbinkeu: Evolving Payment Platform for Developing Countries Mesaac Makpangou, Bassirou Ngom, And Samba Ndiaye: Friticores: A RSS Feed Monitoring and Dissemination System Paul Dayang Rebecca Siafaka: A Mobile Commerce Solution for Sub-Saharan Countries such as Cameroon | |
15:30 – 15:45 | Health Break | ||
15:45 – 17:15 | Session 4: e-Infrastructure chaired by Thomas Olwal Amos Nungu, Robert Olsson, Bjorn Pehrson, Jiawei Kang, Daniel Kifetew, Alisher Rustamov: Inclusive Ubiquitous Access ‐ A Status Report Omotayo Adewumi, Karim Djouani, , Anish Kurien: Performance Evaluation of RSSI Based Distance Measurement for Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks C. Niephaus, M. Kretschmer, K. Jonas, Markus Kessel, M. Rademacher: Link Calibration in QoS-aware Wireless Back-haul Networks for Rural Areas | Session 9: e-Society chaired by Gertjan van Stam Jonathan Ouob, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé: Leveraging the Cultural Model for Opportunistic Networking in sub-Saharan Africa Julianne Sansa-Otim, Philip Lutaaya, Tom Kamya, Stephen Mutaawe Lubega: Analysis of Mobile Phone e-Waste Management in Developing Countries: A Case of Uganda Hadja Ouattara, Jonathan Ouoba, Tegawendé F. Bissyadé: Open Source in Africa: An Opportunity Wasted? -- Why and How FLOSS Should Make Sense for Africa -- | |
November 13 – DAY 2 | ||
8:30 – 9:00 | Registration | |
9:00 – 11:00 | Session 6: Students Papers chaired by Christian Mannweiler Soulamite Judith Nouho Noutat, Thomas Djotio Ndie, Claude Tangha: Wireless Community Network Services: Opportunities and Challenges for DCs: case of Rural Cameroon Vergez Saturnel Nynga, Thomas Djotio Ndié: Handover in WIFI Community Networks Nono Louenkam Guy Gaspard, Thomas Djotio Ndie: Possibility Of Making Telephony in a Local Wireless Environment: Application to Bluetooth Technology Christian Engelbert Ngono, Thomas Djotio Ndie: Implementation of a function VoWiFi communication on Android-x86 | Session 7: Tutorial with Demo Eric Fleury, Gaetan Harter, Nathalie Mitton, Frédéric Saint Marcel, Julien Vandaele : SensLAB/FIT - Very Large Scale Open Wireless Sensor Network Testbed |
11:15 – 11:30 | Health Break | |
11:30 – 12:15 | Session 8: Demos and Posters chaired by Dirk Elias | |
12:15 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 – 15:30 | Session 5: e-Health chaired by Dirk Elias Clement Khalika Banda, Harry Gombachika: Mobile Phone Technology Acceptance and Usability in the Delivery of Health Services among Health Surveillance Assistants in Rural Areas of Malawi Patrick Albert Chikumba,Auxilia Nyaukaya Kaunda: Implications of Integrating Information Systems in Healthcare at District Level in Malawi: A Case of DHIS and Drug LMIS Marc Nyssen, Frank Verbeke, Marcel Remon , and Yannik Hallet: Eb@le-Santé: networked electronic health records in Academic Hospitals in RDC | Session 10: e-Services chaired by Lorenzo Dalvit Themba Shezi, Edgar Jembere, Mathew O. Adigun, Mandla T. Nene: Analysis of Open Source Enterprise Service Buses toward Supporting Integration in Dynamic Service Oriented Environments Anne Marie Chana And Patrice Quinton : Intellectual Property (IP) Integration Approach for Data-Flow parallel embedded Systems Morgan Richomme, David Blaisonneau, Benoit Herard, Babacar Ngom, Geerish Suddul: Emerginov: an open PHP PaaS to stimulate and animate local co-innovation |
15:30 – 15:45 | Health Break | |
15:45 – 17:15 | Session 11: e-Society: Anna Kress Aaron Ciaghi. Birhanu Eshete, Pietro Molini, Adolfo Villafiorita: Social Accountability for Mozambique: an Experience Report from the Moamba District Jacques Fouché, Rossouw Von Solms: Electronic Communication: Stay Connected | Session 12: e-Services: Bjorn Pehrson Tunde Kallai, Guy Tanonkou: Mobile‐Based GNSS Services and Applications in Sub‐Saharan Africa: From Idea to Commercialization Felix Ntawanga, JHP Eloff, Ernest Ketcha Ngassam, Winnie Kandie: User Experience Evaluation of a Lightweight Mobile E‐Procurement Application For Rural Small‐Scale Retailers Lorenzo Dalvit, Steve Krombe: Introducing Nikanow: A Mobile Platform for Hyperlocal Media in South Africa |
November 14 – DAY 3 | |
8:30 – 9:00 | Registration |
9:00 – 9:30 | Invited Talk Yvon Gourhant : Operator's perspectives in Africa |
9:30 – 10:30 | Roundtable with Operators |
10:30 – 10:45 | Health Break |
10:45 – 12:15 | Session 13: e-Security chaired by Yvon Gourhant BEST PAPER AWARD: A Model for Information Security Governance in Developing Countries, Jacques Coertze, And Rossouw Von Solms Noluxolo Kortjan, Rossouw Von Solms: Cyber Security Education in Developing Countries: A South African Perspective Daniel Moune, Leonel Moyou, Tertullien Kengne, Thomas Djotio: Problems of Proximity Security in Ad-Hoc Networks Applied to DCs: Modeling, Authentication, Geolocation |
12:15 – 14:00 | Lunch |
13:30 – 15:30 | Session 14: e-Infrastructure chaired by Sami Rupponen Julianne Sansa Otim, Anthony Mile: IPv4 to IPv6 Transition Strategies for Enterprise Networks in Developing Countries Oswald Jumira, Riaan Wolhuter, Nathalie Mitton: Prediction Model For Solar Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensors C. Mannweiler, P. Chakraborty, A. Klein, Hans D. Schotten: SolarMesh - Deployment Aspects for Wireless Mesh Networks in Developing Countries Balekaki Gerald Nathan, Idris A. Rai: Impact of High TCP’s Initial Window in Highly Congested Links |
15:30 – 16:00 | Wrap-Up and Farewell chaired by Thomas Djotio and Karl Jonas |
