Kindly find below the IST-Africa 2024 Call for Papers and kindly circulate to interested colleagues.
IST-Africa 2024 Call for Papers – Deadline 30 November
Supported by the European Commission (EC) and African Union Commission (AUC), IST-Africa 2024 (May) is the nineteenth in an annual series of Ministerial Level Technology Policy, Research and Innovation Conferences.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, IST-Africa 2024 will take place as a virtual event.
The IST-Africa Conference Series provides a world-class strategic platform rotating around Africa to strengthen technology-enabled Innovation, Science and Technology and Entrepreneurship related policy dialogues within Africa and between Africa, Europe and the rest of the world, Global Development, Research and Innovation Cooperation and Community Building. It also provides an opportunity to identify potential partners for future research cooperation under Horizon Europe and other international funding programs. IST-Africa is a unique community that brings together cross-disciplinary stakeholders from public, private, education and research, societal, funding and international donor sectors with end user communities focused on ICT and STI Research and Innovation and Technology-enabled Entrepreneurship.
IST-Africa 2024 Call for Papers invites full papers (8 pages in length) using the paper guidelines and IST-Africa template for blind peer review by 30 November.
Please download the Call for Papers brochure from http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2024/files/ISTAfrica2024_CallforPapers.pdf
Please access the paper template and guidelines from http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2024/default.asp?page=paperguidelines when preparing your paper.
Thematic areas addressing achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include:
· Technology-enabled Healthcare (mHealth /eHealth)
· Technology-enhanced Learning and eSkills
· Technology-enabled Agriculture (mAgriculture /eAgriculture) & Environmental Sustainability
· Energy – ICT for Power Delivery, Micro-grids
· eInfrastructures and NRENs (National Research and Education Networks)
· Next Generation Computing: Big Data, Cloud Computing, Future Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT)
· eGovernment and Public Service Delivery
· Content Technologies: Languages; Digital Preservation
· Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust
· Collaborative Open Innovation and Technology-enabled Entrepreneurship (including Social Entrepreneurship)
· Global Development (including ICT4D)
· Societal and Ethical Implications of Technology
Full papers must present analysis of policy, initial or final research results or a case study. It is important to highlight actual or expected impact as well as the level of innovation. General project descriptions or descriptions of proposed research will not be reviewed.
It is necessary for the paper submitted to include a unique element that has not previously been published and any previous published materials to be clearly referenced (including material previously published by the authors).
Each presenter can present ONE paper in the Programme. It is necessary for papers to be presented by a registered author / co-author and answer questions based on the presentation during the event to ensure inclusion in the Proceedings.
Please only submit papers for review where there are authors/co-authors who will complete registration. Please do not submit multiple papers for which there is only one author who can register. Please note only full papers are assigned for review.
Full papers using the IST-Africa paper template should be submitted via http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2024/default.asp?page=submission by 30 November.
IST-Africa is looking forward to receiving your submissions.
For further inquiries, please contact IST-Africa Institute below:
E-mail: secretariat@IST-Africa.org
Web: www.ist-africa.org/Conference2024/
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