Day 1: 25th November  2010                                                                                                                                                                  

Time

Event

Session Chair

8:00 – 9:00

Registration

 

9:00 – 9:45

Opening Ceremony

"The Value of African Innovation to the Developed and Emerging World" - Mr. Danie Kok (Director SAP CEC Research, Pretoria)

 

Prof. Darelle van Greunen, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

9:45 – 10:45

Keynote Address I:  Next Generation Network Infrastructures Introduction and Evolution in Emerging Countries – Challenges and Options, by Professor Thomas Magedanz from Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

10:45 – 11:15

Coffee Break

 

11:15 – 13:00

Session 1: Wireless Network Technologies

 

Connecting Mobile Phones via Carrier-grade Meshed Wireless Back-haul Networks,  Mathias Kretschmer, Christian Niephaus, Karl Jonas, Thorsten Horstmann, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Sankt Augustin, Germany

 

Leveraging SMS Infrastructure for Internet Access in Developing Countries: Scenarios, Architectures and Research Issues, Fatna Belqasmi, ETS, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada,  Carl Aniambossou, MSP, University of Abomey Calavi, Republic of Benin Roch Glitho, ETS, University of Quebec, & Concordia university, Canada

 

A Structural Parameter Based Modification of Energy Conscious ESPAR Antenna System through Optimization for WLAN's Dual-Band Operability, Mncedisi Jacob Bembe, ITTP - Korean Advanced Institute of Technology,  Willem Clarke, University of Johannesburg,  Albert A. Lysko,  Meraka Institute-CSIR

Prof.  Karl Jonas, 

Fraunhofer FOKUS,  NETwork Research

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch Break             

 

14:00 – 16:00

Session 2:   Issues on E-governance

 

Global survey on culture differences and context in using e-government systems: A pilot study, Prof Darelle van Greunen, Prof Marlien Herselman, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

 

Improving Public Administrations via Law Modeling, Aaron Ciaghi, Adolfo Villafiorita,  Fondazione Bruno Kessler, via Sommarive 14 Povo (TN), Italy

 

Adaptation of Mobile application to Improve Communication of Birth Information from the Community to the District Level, Caroline Ngoma, Marlen Galimoto, and Jo Herstad, University of Oslo, Department of Informatics, Norway

Dr. Adolfo Villafiorita

Resarcher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break

 

16:30 – 18:00

Session 3:  ICT business models and open-access

 

Invited Talk: A4D Android for Developing, Professor Dr.-Ing Dirk Elias, Fraunhofer AICOS Portugal

 

Enabling Business Intelligence Functions over a Loosely Coupled Environment, Leandro Paulo Bogoni, Giampaolo Armellin, Annamaria Chiasera, Tefo James Toai, Gianpaolo Zanella, University of Trento, Italy

 

Emerginov: How free software can boost local innovation, a win-win deal between operator and local innovation partners, Morgan Richomme,  Orange – France Telecom, Geerish Suddul, Rai Basgeet and Avinash Soobul, Mauritius Telecom,

Prof. Thomas Magedanz, Technische Universität Berlin

18:00 - 20:00

Cocktail reception at Cape Town Lodge Hotel

 

 

 

 

Day 2: 26th November 2010

8:00 - 9:00

Registration

9:00 – 9:30

Invited speaker:

Mobile technology to facilitate a care service in home-based healthcare, Dr Retha de la Harpe, CPUT

 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Elias, Fraunhofer Portugal Research Center for Assistive Information and Communication Solutions FhP-AICOS

9:30 – 10:30

Keynote Address 2: System Innovation for Sustainable Development, by Prof  Lassi Linnanen, Director of Environmental Technology Master Program at LUT

 

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break               

 

11:00 – 12:30

Session 4:  ICT4D

 

Utilization of ICTs in Multipurpose Community Telecentres in Rural Malawi, Patrick Albert Chikumba, The Polytechnic, University of Malawi

 

Egypt Local Government Websites Maturity: Current Status, Hisham Abdelsalam, Hatem ElKadi, Sara Gamal, Egypt

 

Student Performance in Computer Studies in Secondary Schools in Malawi, Patrick Albert Chikumba, The Polytechnic, University of Malawi

 

Prof. Idris A. Rai, Makerere University

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch Break

 

14:00  -  15:00

Session 5: Issues on network Infrastructures; security, energy, network backbone

 

Continent-based Comparative Study of Internet Attacks, Idris A. Rai and Matsiko Perez, Makerere University

 

Detecting Network Intrusions Using hierarchical Temporal Memory,  Gift Khangamwa, The Polytechnic, University of Malawi

 

 

Dr. Omar F. Hamad, Research fellow, University of  Johannesburg

15:00 – 15:30

Break

 

15:30 – 17:30

Demonstrations:

·         Emerginov (Orange)

·         ASL (University of the Western Cape)

·         NET4DC (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany)

·         A4D (Fraunhofer AICOS, Portugal)

·         Mobile Technology to Facilitate a Care Service in Home-based Healthcare (CPUT)

·         Open eHealth Enterprise Architecture (Alessandro Campione, Ministry of Health in Mozambique)

 

Prof. Idris A. Rai, Makerere University