[ecrea] Call for Papers for 1st African ITS conference

First AFRICAN ITS conference – 10-11 March 2016

Call for papers

The first African International Telecommunications Society (ITS)
conference will be held in Accra, Ghana, in March 2016.

New dates for the ITS conference in Ghana have now been set. The
conference will be on 10-11 March 2016. The conference was postponed
from 2015 to 2016 because of the ebola situation in Western Africa.
However, as the situation has vastly improved, the conference will be
held in 2016.

The conference is entitled ‘ICT Infrastructures, Applications and
Policies’.

The conference website can be found at www.africa-its.org
<http://www.africa-its.org>

Deadline for abstracts for paper: 15 October 2015

The conference will elicit papers in the following fields focusing on
African developments as well as developments in other parts of the world:

*ICT infrastructures and services – technologies and markets*

·Fixed and mobile developments

·Country cases of coverage and take-up

·Mobile broadband

·Internet developments

·Mobile operators

·Continental fiber rings

·Digital divides

·Investments in ICT infrastructures including PPP

·Cyber security

·Cloud computing

·Broadcast developments

*Social and private applications*

·ICT4D and M4D

·E- and m-commerce

·E- and m-learning

·E- and m-health

·E- and m-governance

·Intelligent Traffic Systems

·Agricultural applications

·Mobile money and banking

·Mobile for disaster management

·Social media / social networks

·Communication patterns and trends

·Age and gender issues

·Information Systems approaches to government and business applications

·New media

*Policy and regulation *

·Telecommunications regulation

·Universal access and service

·Competition regulation

·Spectrum regulation

·Broadcast and media policies and regulation

·Regulatory institutions and agencies

·Internet regulation

·Information society policies

·ICT4D governance

·Broadband policies

·Protection of privacy and identity management

·Cyber security policies

·Copyright and patent issues

Additional relevant topics are also welcome.

**

*Important deadlines*

·15 October 2015: Deadline for abstracts for papers

·15 November 2015: Notification of acceptance

·15 January 2016: Deadline for final papers

*Submission of Abstracts*

**

Abstracts should be about 2 pages (800 to 1000 words) in length and
contain the following information:**

·Title of the contribution

·A research question

·Remarks on methodology

·Outline of (expected) results

·Bibliographical notes (up to 6 main references used in the paper)

All abstracts will be subject to blind peer review by at least two
reviewers.

Questions should be addressed to (henten /at/ cmi.aau.dk)
<mailto:(henten /at/ cmi.aau.dk)>

Best regards

Anders Henten and Dr. Osei Darkwa



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