Introduction

The 2022 International Conference on ICT for Development for Africa (ICT4DA 2022) is the main venue for engineers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry to present and discuss research work in the area of ICT for Development in AFRICA. The conference facilitates a thematic discussion, and the transfer of knowledge, experience, adaptation of new methods, and where possible strive to foster collaboration among multidisciplinary groups. The topics of interest cover all aspects of ICT leading towards socioeconomic development in emerging economies.

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Committee

Steering Committee

Fisseha Mekuria , Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa 
Judy Van Biljon, University of South Africa, South Africa

General Chair

 Ethiopia Nigussie, University of Turku

General Co-Chairs

Tesfa Tegegne,  Bahir Dar Institute of Technology,  Bahir Dar University
Luzango Mfup, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa 

Call for paper

Important date

2022-08-29
Draft paper submission deadline
2022-09-20
Draft paper acceptance notification

Submission Topics

Track 1: Intelligent Systems & Data Science

Decision support systems
Autonomous multi-agent systems
Fuzzy logic systems
Machine learning and deep learning
Data Science and Big Data analytics
Statistical learning algorithms, models and theories
Application of IoT and AI to solve societal problems in agriculture, healthcare, industry, and others

Track 2: Wireless Communications & Emerging Networking

Emerging networks, Network virtualization and SDN
AI in wireless networks and cognitive radios 
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other autonomous Communication Systems
IoT and smart sensing in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4th IR) applications.
Satellite and space communication
Affordable broadband wireless networks for emerging economy
5G and beyond networks for the sustainable development goals
Future Internet systems and community networks
Green networks, smart grid  and power-line communications

Track 3: Computing Systems

Software Development Methods and Techniques
Requirements Engineering
Software Architecture, Design, Testing and Quality Assurance
Software maintenance and evolution
Software Project Management
Virtualization and Containers
Embedded systems
Energy Harvesting, and Energy Management Systems
Circuits and HW Systems for Emerging Technologies

Track 4: Security and Privacy

Access control and security models
Cloud,  Internet of Things, and embedded systems security
Internet, communication and network security
Forensics, hardware and biometric security
Software security and malware
Intrusion detection and prevention systems
Security and privacy policies and trust management
Data and AI systems security

Track 5: Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Speech recognition, speech synthesis
Dialogue and multilingual Interactive Systems
Narrative understanding and commonsense reasoning
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Multimodal and grounded language processing
Summarization and Information Extraction
Applications of NLP on web, social media, and computational social science
Machine learning in NLP

Track 6: Information systems and services 

IS implementation, adoption and diffusion    
Philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches in IS
Human computer interaction
eService, digital government and platforms
Innovative digital technologies in business, public & economic services

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Important Date
  • Conference Date

    Nov 28

    2022

    to

    Nov 30

    2022

  • Aug 29 2022

    Draft paper submission deadline

  • Sep 20 2022

    Draft Paper Acceptance Notification

  • Nov 30 2022

    Registration deadline

Sponsored By
Bahir Dar Institute of Technology- Bahir Dar University
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)- South Africa