International Conference on ICT for Africa

The International Conference on ICT for Africa 2010 (ICIA 2010) is themed ‘ICT for Development – Contributions of the South’.

This conference will bring together a fine mix of practitioners and academicians in the area of ICTs for sustainable development. The conference will explore the contributions of Africa to the global ICT for development discourse and efforts. The objective is to highlight the synergy of collaboration between African countries and other developing countries, and between African countries and the developed countries towards development solutions. Discussions and panel debates will therefore question how ICTs become the process for South-to-South knowledge transfer and South-to-North knowledge transfer in both research and practice.

Presentations would cover key themes outline below:

1. ICT for Business
   • IT in Micro-Enterprises and Entrepreneurship
   • Supply Chain Management
   • Electronic Business
2. ICT for Education and Journalism
   • Elearning
   • I-reporting or social reporting
   • ICTs in Schools and Higher Educational Institution
3. ICT and Healthcare
   • Telemedicince
   • Electronic Medical Records
   • Community Health
   • Patient Compliance and mobile phones
4. Internet and Society
   • Social computing and networks
   • Social Identity 
   • Social Learning
   • Cybercrime
   • Unintended Consequences
     
5. ICT, Poverty and Development
   • Managerial IT Issues for Sustainable Development
   • GIS & IS in Agriculture and Land Use
   • IT, Rural Development & Poverty Reduction
   • IT Policy
6. Open-source Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa
   • Adoption, Localization and Implementation
   • Open Content and Open ID
   • Universal Standards
   • Intellectual Property and Digital Commons
7. ICT and Gender Development
   
8. ICT Diffusion and Teledensity
9. ICT Project Management and Sustainability
10. ICT in Government and Conflict Resolution
    • E-government and Digital Government
    • ICT and Public Sector Reform and Administration
    • Teledemocracy
    • ICT and Taxation
    • ICT and Citizen Participation
11. ICT Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
    • Research Methods, Reviews and Commentaries
    • Human and Societal Issues in Information Systems

ICIA 2010 creates a forum where participants can disseminate their research on the transfer, diffusion, and adoption of ICT within the context of Africa; the innovation and development of ICT solutions for and within this context; impacts of ICT on society and of society on ICT; and other relevant normative, empirical, and theoretical concerns of ICT development, implementation, strategy, management and policy that are distinctive to Africa and associated developing economies.

Important Dates

Submission Guidelines

Doctoral Consortium Papers:

• This is only open to doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students
• 1500-2500 words of extended abstract (including references, figures and main text)
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Track Sessions Papers:

• Research in Progress  - 3000-5000 words (including references, figures and main text)
• Full Papers - 5000 words (including references, figures and main text)
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Please submit your paper electronically through our online submission system (click on Submit Paper on the Top menu) on or before December 1st, 2009. For papers to appear in the proceedings, at least one author must register for the conference. Notification of paper acceptance by December 31st, 2009. For consideration for the best paper award, submit the full manuscript by November 10, 2009. Final camera- ready paper submission January 31st, 2010. You can also submit your paper by emailing the paper to Dr Richard Boateng ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

Panel Discussions and Workshops

The conference will be a platform for panel discussions and workshops which will explore international grantseeking opportunities for ICT research and projects, and new frontiers in telemedicine and tele-neonatology research and practice in Africa.

The aim of panel sessions is to debate ICT issues that are critical, crucial, controversial and unresolved in the African and other similar developing economies contexts. Panelists will actively engage the audience and help them to gain a deeper understanding of the issues and reflect more than one point of view.