[ecrea] Call for papers - 2nd African ITS conference

*Call for Papers for the 2nd African International Telecommunications 
Society (ITS) conference *

*Lusaka, Zambia*

*March 15-16, 2018 *

*Conference website: *http://www.itsafrica.org.zm/index.php

*Deadline for abstract proposals: November 1, 2017*

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*/Communications and Applications for All - The ICT Thrust Transforming 
Business, Competition, Policy, and Regulation/*

Mobile communication connections in Africa have outpaced the 
expectations just in a period of 15 years. This development clearly 
documents the great importance of communications for all. The 2nd 
African Conference of the International Telecommunication Society (ITS) 
in Lusaka will focus on the interplay between technology developments 
and market and policy and regulatory developments in the Information and 
Communication Technology (ICT) field in African countries. Contributions 
focusing primarily on technology issues as well as contributions 
focusing primarily on market and/or policy and regulation are welcome. 
Contributions from and about other countries and regions of the world 
are also welcome.

Telecommunications, information technology areas, and media have been 
converging during the past decades. The manifestations of ICT 
convergence in terms of social developments and market and industrial 
developments in African countries are called for. Papers on the separate 
fields of telecommunications as well as the use of information 
technologies and broadcasting and other media developments are also welcome.

Papers on Information and Communications Technology for Development 
(ICT4D) including Mobile for Development (m4D) and papers with an 
interest in uses of ICTs at the bottom-of-the-pyramid (BOP) are 
solicited. This includes papers on user studies of social networks as 
well as papers on e-government, e-money, e-heath, e-education, 
e-agriculture, etc. It also includes papers on two- and multi-sided 
platforms.

Papers on mobile and Internet developments including papers on the 
deployment of 3 and 4G and on broadband developments are invited. In the 
policy and regulation field, papers on ICT policy initiatives and more 
specifically on universal access and service, on right-of-way 
concerning, for instance, tower deployments, on competition regulation, 
on net neutrality and zero rating and on investments in 
telecommunications and ICT in general are solicited. There is need of 
in-depth analyses of the telecom markets, their trends, and their drivers.

The Conference aims to address these issues that are relevant to the 
future direction of telecommunications in Africa.

Best regards

Simon Tembo, University of Zambia

Anders Henten, Aalborg University, Denmark

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