Call for Papers
Paper Submission
50% discount on the second paper
Notification deadline
- 5 June, 2026
Camera-ready deadline
- 10 July, 2026
Conference dates
- 26-27 October, 2026
- Zanzibar, Tanzania
Notification deadline
- 1st August 2024
Camera-ready deadline
- 20th August 2024
Scope and topics
EAI AFRICOMM is an established and growing academic forum that has continually attracted strong participation. Our motivation is to build on this solid foundation and further elevate the event’s scholarly impact and visibility.
The central theme of EAI AFRICOMM 2026 is “Digital Transformation and the Blue Economy,” focusing on how emerging technologies and data-driven innovation can accelerate sustainable ocean-based development.
Topics to be addressed include digital infrastructure, AI applications, blue economy entrepreneurship, marine conservation technologies, data governance, smart coastal communities, and innovation ecosystems supporting sustainable maritime resources.
Publication
- EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things (Scopus)
- EAI Endorsed Transactions on AI and Robotics (Scopus)
- It must be an extended version of the conference paper with a different title and abstract. In general, 30% of new content must be added.
- The article will be processed once the conference proceedings have been published.
- The article will be processed using the fast-track option.
- Once the conference proceedings are published, the corresponding author should contact us at [email protected] with the details of their article to begin processing.
- EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
- EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series (titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science, Scopus)
Paper Length
Papers should be submitted through the EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).
- Regular papers should be 12-20 pages in length. (Excluding appendices, references, appreciation, etc.)
- Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length. (Excluding appendices, references, appreciation, etc.)
*Please note that additional pages will be subject to an extra charge for each extra page uploaded.
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.
Submission Guidelines
A 50% discount on the second paper is available for participants registering two accepted papers, provided both papers are authored by the same individual who will also be the sole attendee.
- Go to Confy+ website.
- Log in or sign up as a new user.
- Select your desired track.
- Click the ‘Submit Paper’ link within the track and follow the instructions.
Alternatively, go to the Confy+ homepage and click on “Open Conferences.”
Submission Guidelines:
- All papers must be submitted in English.
Submitted PDFs should be anonymized.
- 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)
Springer AI Policies and Guidance
Full information: https://www.springernature.com/gp/partners/rights-permissions-third-party-distribution
AI Authorship Policy
Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, do not currently satisfy our authorship criteria. Notably an attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, which cannot be effectively applied to LLMs. We thus ask that the use of an LLM be properly documented in the Acknowledgements, or in the Introduction or Preface of the manuscript.
The use of an LLM (or other AI-tool) for “AI assisted copy editing” purposes does not need to be declared. In this context, we define the term “AI assisted copy editing” as AI-assisted improvements to human-generated texts for readability and style, and to ensure that the texts are free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation and tone. These AI-assisted improvements may include wording and formatting changes to the texts, but do not include generative editorial work and autonomous content creation. In all cases, there must be human accountability for the final version of the text and agreement from the authors that the edits reflect their original work. This reflects a similar stance taken on the AI generative figures policy, where it was acknowledged that there are cases where AI can be used to generate a figure without being concerned about copyright e.g. to generate a graph based on data provided by the author.
AI Authorship Guidance
Authors should familiarise themselves with the current known risks of using AI models before using them in their manuscript. AI models have been known to plagiarise content and to create false content. As such, authors should carry out due diligence to ensure that any AI-generated content in their book is correct, appropriately referenced, and follow the standards as laid out in our Book Authors’ Code of Conduct.
AI-generated Images Policy
The fast-moving area of generative AI image creation has resulted in novel legal copyright and research integrity issues. As publishers, we strictly follow existing copyright law and best practices regarding publication ethics. While legal issues relating to AI-generated images and videos remain broadly unresolved, Springer Nature journals and books are unable to permit its use for publication.
Exceptions:
- Images/art obtained from agencies that we have contractual relationships with that have created images in a legally acceptable manner.
- Images and videos that are directly referenced in a piece that is specifically about AI and such cases will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
- The use of generative AI tools developed with specific sets of underlying scientific data that can be attributed, checked and verified for accuracy, provided that ethics, copyright and terms of use restrictions are adhered to.
* All exceptions must be labelled clearly as generated by AI within the image field.
As we expect things to develop rapidly in this field in the near future, we will review this policy regularly and adapt if necessary.
Note: Examples of image types covered by this policy include: video and animation, including video stills; photography; illustration such as scientific diagrams, photo-illustrations and other collages, and editorial illustrations such as drawings, cartoons or other 2D or 3D visual representations. Not included in this policy are text-based and numerical display items, such as: tables, flow charts and other simple graphs that do not contain images. Please note that not all AI tools are generative. The use of non-generative machine learning tools to manipulate, combine or enhance existing images or figures should be disclosed in the relevant caption upon submission to allow a case-by-case review.
AI-generated Images Guidance
For more information on the inclusion of third party content (i.e. any work that you have not created yourself and which you have reproduced or adapted from other sources) please see Rights, Permissions, Third Party Distribution.
Author’s kit – Instructions and Templates
Papers must be formatted using the Springer LNICST Authors’ Kit.
Instructions and templates are available from Springer’s LNICST homepage:
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 in .ZIP file, containing LaTeX or Word source material prepared according to the above guidelines.
