Call for Papers

EAI AFRICOMM 2022 will be held as an on-site conference and if needed, Accepted Authors who are unable to attend the event in person will be given an option to present remotely.

Scope

Developing countries are embracing the use of ICT in order to improve performance of both the public and private sectors. A great challenges is, however, resource availability. Researchers and practitioners alike, from both the global north and south have developed interest on developing the means and ways of efficient diffusion of ICT in the resource constrained environment. AFRICOMM 2022 aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in ICT to discuss issues and trends, recent research, innovation advances and on-the-field experiences related to e-Infrastructure and e-Services along with their associated policy and regulations with a deep focus on developing countries.

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Topics

The conference welcomes contribution in wide-range topics related to infrastructure and services development especially in the emerging topics, including, but not limited to:

• cloud computing and internet of things
• machine learning, energy-aware ICT infrastructure
• existing/emerging wireless broadband access technologies
• WiMAX, LTE.
• ICT security
• overlay networks (such as p2p)
• self-managed deployment
• operation, maintenance
• innovative mobile technologies and solutions
• innovative blockchain appliances for developing countries
• ICT infrastructures for critical environmental conditions
• ICT infrastructures and services based on alternative energies
• ubiquitous networks and environments
• creative and digital economy
• smart cities, social networks
• e-Government and e-services
• drone and geospatial technologies
• deep learning and big data
• application of smart solutions to emergency and disaster management including solutions to address impact of pandemics such as COVID-19 in education, health, business, digital economy and other social services.
• technological development on developing blue economy for sustainable development.

Publication

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

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

• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems (Open Access)– indexed in Web of Sience, Scopus, Ei Compendex and others
• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications (Open Access)

Additional publication opportunities:

• EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series
  (titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus)

Paper submission

Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).

• Regular papers should be up to 12-15 pages in length.
• Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length.

All conference papers undergo a thorough peer review process prior to the final decision and publication. This process is facilitated by experts in the Technical Program Committee during a dedicated conference period. Standard peer review is enhanced by EAI Community Review which allows EAI members to bid to review specific papers. All review assignments are ultimately decided by the responsible Technical Program Committee Members while the Technical Program Committee Chair is responsible for the final acceptance selection. You can learn more about Community Review here.

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