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 2025 aims to bring together researchers, academia, industry, and policymakers together.

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

EAI is an open community dedicated to creating an environment where every member receives the same opportunities, benefits and opportunities to develop and grow their research mission and career. As the largest free professional research society in the world EAI offers a complete range of conference proceedings publication opportunities. Based on the qualification of the conference and the conference scope EAI provides the possibility to publish the proceedings for every sponsored conference. Consistent with its mission to support developing communities all EAI sponsored conferences appear in EUDL, the European Union Digital Library (EUDL). EUDL is Open Access and free for EAI members reaching a community of 250,000 subscribers and providing the visibility that allows the conference organizers to develop the conference into a fully fledged indexed proceedings publication in subsequent year.

1. Go to Confy+ website.
2. Log in or sign up as a new user.
3. Select your desired track.
4. Click the ‘Submit Paper’ link within the track and follow the instructions.

• All papers must be submitted in English. 
• Previously published work cannot be submitted, nor can it be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. These papers will be rejected without review. 
• Papers must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (available in the Author’s Kit section). 
• Authors must read and agree to the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
• As per new EU accessibility requirements, going forward, all figures, illustrations, tables, and images should have descriptive text accompanying them. Please refer to the document below, which will assist you in crafting Alternative Text (Alt Text)

HOW TO WRITE GOOD ALT TEXT

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.

Papers must be formatted using the Springer LNICST Authors’ Kit.

Instructions and templates are available from Springer’s LNICST homepage:

• LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)
• Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip)

Please make sure that your paper adheres to the format as specified in the instructions and templates.

When uploading the camera-ready copy of your paper, please be sure to upload both:

• a PDF copy of your paper formatted according to the above templates, and
• an archive file (e.g. zip, tar.gz) containing the both a PDF copy of your paper and LaTeX or Word source material prepared according to the above guidelines.