Call for Papers - ICT4D 2010
International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development
12-14 Oct 10 | Cape Town, South Africa
ICT4D is an international conference focusing on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) innovation and impact for developing countries. It provides a unique forum where academic and economic actors of the developing world can meet and exchange. The conference is organized by the SAP/Meraka UTD in Pretoria South Africa in collaboration with CREATE-NET (Italy).
CALL FOR PAPERS
All accepted papers will be published by Springer in the ICST Lecture Notes (LNICST) series. The proceedings will be published by Springer and will be available both as paper-based copies and via Springerlink, Springer's digital library. In addition, the content of the proceedings will be reviewed by various indexing services such as the DBLP database, ZBlMath/CompuServe, IO-Port, EI, Scopus, INSPEC, ISI Proceedings, the Zentralblatt Math and Google Scholar.
The scope of the papers should be around the following topics:
Communication and hardware
- Wireless, ad-hoc, meshed, etc. networks
- Mobile-based computing
- Policies for communication access development
- Sensor networks / alert systems
- Networking and computing in challenged environment
Business
- ICT for micro/small businesses
- Business support in shared environment
- Interfacing with developed business methodologies
- Social impact of ICT in developing countries
Education
- E-learning
- Interfaces for illiterate users
- Culturally adapted content
Environment/Health
- E-diagnosis, expert systems, e-medicine
- Epidemiology, prevention
- Sustainable Agriculture / Natural Resource Exploitation
- Computer assisted agriculture
For further information, visit http://www.itc4d.org.