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Africomm Conference 2011 |
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Day 1: 23nd November 2011 |
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08:00 - 08:30 |
Registration |
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08:30 - 9:30 |
Opening Ceremony Prof. Dr. Karl Jonas, General Chair Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin, Honorable Chair Prof. Dr. Idris Rai, TPC Chair Hon. Prof. Makame Mnyaa Mbarawa, (Minister for Communication, Science & Technology, Tanzania) |
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9:30 - 10:15 |
Keynote Address I: Elias Towe, CMU |
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10:15 - 10:30 |
Coffee break |
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10:30 - 1:00 |
Session 1: Communication Infrastructures in
Developing Countries |
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Gaël Fromentoux: Scenario to Serve Remote Areas in Emerging Countries with the Village Internet Service Station |
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Christian Lottermann, Andreas Klein: Enhancing Service Provisioning within Heterogeneous Wireless Networks for Emergency Situations |
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Hudson Okii, Idris A. Rai: Providing Some Quality of Service for Secondary Users in Cognitive Radios Using Time Slotted Systems |
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Yvon Gourhant, Daniel Philip Venmani, Ali Gouta: Fair Usage and Capping for Providing Internet for all in Developing Countries |
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1:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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14:00 - 15:30 |
Session 2: Communication Infrastructures |
Session 3: Electronic Service |
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Daniel Philip Venmani, Yvon Gourhant, Djamal Zeghlache: OpenFlow as an Architecture for e-Node B Virtualization |
Tiwonge Davis Manda, Yamiko Msosa: Essential Socio-Technical Arrangements for mHealth Solution Implementations in Low-resource Contexts |
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Moshe Timothy Masonta: The White Space Opportunity in Southern Africa: Measurements with Meraka Cognitive Radio Platform |
Simon Samwel Msanjila: On development of a collaborative ICT infrastructure for online HIV/AIDS advisory service provision |
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Edward Mutafungwa, le wang, Jukka Manner, Puvvala Yeswanth: Strategies for Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Access: An East African Case Study |
Massimiliano Masi, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco Tiezzi: e-Health for Rural Areas in Developing Countries:Lessons from the Sebokeng Experience |
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Abel Mukakanya Muwumba, Idris A. Rai: Scalable Scheduling with Burst Mapping in IEEE 802.16e (Mobile) WiMAX Networks |
Christophe Péguy Choub Faha: Information and Communication Technologies and Firms Productivity in Cameroon |
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15:30 - 15:45 |
Coffee Break |
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15:45 - 18:30 |
Tutorial I: Thomas Magedanz, Julius Müller: Towards fixed and mobile Next Generation Network toolkits for DC: OpenIMS and OpenEPC |
Tutorial II: Andy Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Anirudha Joshi, IIT Bombay, India: Interaction Design in Developing Regions; Supported by the International Federation for Information Processing TC 13 |
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20:00 |
Gala Dinner; includes Best-Paper Award |
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Day 2: 24th November 2011 |
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9:00 - 9:45 |
Keynote Address II: ICANN |
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9:45 - 11:15 |
Session 4: Electronic Service, ICT Policy, and
Regulatory Issues |
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Idris Rai, Anthony Rodrigues, Isabella Venter, Godfrey Mills, Hussein Suleman, John Edumadze: Relevant Computing Curricula in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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Harry Gombachika, Maganizo Monawe: Effect of Attitude towards SMS Technology and its Applications on Blood Donation Behaviour |
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Lorenzo Dalvit, Ingrid Sieboerger, Hannah Thinyane: The expansion of the Siyakhula Living Lab: a holistic perspective |
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Salah Kabanda, Irwin Brown: Power dynamics in E-Commerce adoption in Least Developing Countries: The case of Dar-es-Salaam SMEs, Tanzania |
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11:15 - 11:45 |
Coffee break |
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11:45 - 12:30 |
Keynote Address III: Ntsibane Ntlatlapa, CSIR Meraka |
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Sessions 5 and 7 are identical! |
Sessions 6 and 8 are identical! |
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12:30 - 13:00 |
Session 5: Demo presentations |
Session 6: Poster presentations (10` per poster) |
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13:00 - 13:30 |
Session 7: Demo presentations |
Session 8: Poster presentations (10` per poster) |
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13:30 - 14:30 |
Lunch break |
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14:30 - 16:30 |
Session 9: Communication Infrastructures Roch Glitho |
Session 10: Electronic Services |
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Jens Moedeker, Thorsten Horstmann, Philipp Batroff, Karl Jonas, George Ghineas: A Pilot of a QoS-aware Wireless Back-Haul Network for Rural Areas |
Aaron Ciaghi, Adolfo Villafiorita: Crowdsourcing ICTD Best Practices |
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Christian Mannweiler, Christian Lottermann, Andreas Klein: SolarMesh - Energy-Efficient, Autonomous Wireless Networks for Developing Countries |
Hugh Cameron: A Software Business Incubation Model using ICTs for Sustainable Economic Development in Uganda |
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Sebastiaan von Solms, Elmarie Kritzinger: Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP) and Cyber Security in Africa ? has the CIIP and Cyber Security Rubicon been crossed? |
Yahya Hamad Sheikh, Abubakar Bakar: Open Source Software Solution for Healthcare: The Case of Health Information System in Zanzibar |
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Patrick Albert Chikumba: Geographic Information System as a Tool for Integration of District Health Information System and Drug Logistics Management Information System in Malawi |
Nobubele Shozi, Dalenca Pottas, Nicky Mostert: A socio-technical perspective on the use of mobile phones for remote data collection in home community based care in developing countries |
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16:30 - 17:00 |
Closing session; Karl Jonas Dr. Ally S. Mwinyikai, |
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17:00 - 17:30 |
Organization Committee Meeting (internal) |
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