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E-Infrastructures and E-Services on Developing Countries

First International ICST Conference, AFRICOM 2009, Maputo, Mozambique, December 3-4, 2009, Proceedings

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  1. Adolfo Villafiorita

    1. Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

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  2. Regis Saint-Paul

    1. CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy

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  3. Alessandro Zorer

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST, volume 38)

Conference series link(s): AFRICOMM: International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries

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Table of contents (13 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Fostering Learning through the Use of Argumentative Serious Games

    • Markos Hatzitaskos, Nikos Karacapilidis
    Pages 1-10

  3. Using Cell Phones to Improve Language Skills: The Hadeda Project

    • Laurie Butgereit, Adele Botha, Daniel van Niekerk
    Pages 11-19

  5. A Rural Implementation of a 52 Node Mixed Wireless Mesh Network in Macha, Zambia

    • Jonathan Backens, Gregory Mweemba, Gertjan van Stam
    Pages 32-39

  6. e-Justice Implementation at a National Scale: The Ugandan Case

    • Fredrick Edward Kitoogo, Constantine Bitwayiki
    Pages 40-49

  7. Supporting Public Administration with an Integrated BPR Environment

    • Aaron Ciaghi, Adolfo Villafiorita, Komminist Weldemariam, Andrea Mattioli, Quoc-Sang Phan
    Pages 50-59

  8. SAMBA Project Experiences

    • Christian Fuhrhop, Raju Vaidya, Oscar Mayora, Elizabeth Furtado
    Pages 60-69

  9. E-Voting: A South African Perspective

    • E. Swanepoel, K. Thomson, J. F. van Niekerk
    Pages 70-77

  10. BoulSat Project: Low-Cost Wireless Metropolitan Network Implementation in Burkina Faso

    • Samuele S. Catusian, Federico Longobardi, Francesco Panicucci, Raphael P. Bartalesi, Libertario Demi, Antonio D. Cuomo et al.
    Pages 78-85

  11. Telemedicine as a Tool for Europe-Africa Cooperation: A Practical Experience

    • Manuel Dinis, Fernando Santiago, Luís Silva, Ricardo Ferreira, José Machado, Eduardo Castela
    Pages 86-94

  14. Converged Infrastructure for Emerging Regions - A Research Agenda

    • Nicolas Chevrollier, Juha Zidbeck, Ntsibane Ntlatlapa, Burak Simsek, Achim Marikar
    Pages 116-125

  15. Back Matter

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About this book

The first edition of a conference is a significant organizational and scientific gamble. In some cases, these challenges are rewarded by results well above the initial expec- tions. AFRICOMM 2009, the First International ICST Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, was clearly one of such cases. The conference aimed at bringing together international researchers, public of- cers, policy makers and practitioners in ICT to discuss issues and trends, recent research, innovation advances, and on-the-field experiences related to e-Government, e-Governance, e-Infrastructure, and e-Business, with a focus on developing countries. It is in fact widely accepted that ICT Infrastructure and (e-*)services are key drivers for development, well-being, and improved quality of life. This was also highlighted by Kofi Annan, former UN General Secretary, in 2002: “While ICT cannot address all of [Africa's] problems, they can do much to place Africa on a firmer industrial footing. . . and strengthen the continent's human resources, with training that leads to sustainable livelihoods. ” AFRICOMM 2009 was organized in three tracks: two of them organized as Research Tracks, on Information and Communication Infrastructures and on e- Services for Developing Countries, and one Policy and Governance Track. Contri- tions to the first two tracks were selected by peer-review, while the policies session involved key stakeholders in the areas of ICT, development, and policy making who submitted position papers. Participation and selection of papers for the tracks was quite good.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

    Adolfo Villafiorita

  • CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy

    Regis Saint-Paul, Alessandro Zorer

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