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Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa

First International Conference, ICT4DA 2017, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, September 25–27, 2017, Proceedings

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  1. Fisseha Mekuria

    1. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa

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  2. Ethiopia Enideg Nigussie

    1. Information Technology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

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  3. Waltenegus Dargie

    1. Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

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  4. Mutafugwa Edward

    1. Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

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  5. Tesfa Tegegne

    1. Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST, volume 244)

Conference series link(s): ICT4DA: International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa

Conference proceedings info: ICT4DA 2017.

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Table of contents (31 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. ICT4DA Main Track

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Is Addis Ababa Wi-Fi Ready?

      • Asrat Mulatu Beyene, Jordi Casademont Serra, Yalemzewd Negash Shiferaw
      Pages 3-13

    3. A Finite-State Morphological Analyzer for Wolaytta

      • Tewodros A. Gebreselassie, Jonathan N. Washington, Michael Gasser, Baye Yimam
      Pages 14-23

    4. Malaria Detection and Classification Using Machine Learning Algorithms

      • Yaecob Girmay Gezahegn, Yirga Hagos G. Medhin, Eneyew Adugna Etsub, Gereziher Niguse G. Tekele
      Pages 24-33

    6. Survey on Indoor Positioning Techniques and Systems

      • Habib Mohammed Hussien, Yalemzewed Negash Shiferaw, Negassa Basha Teshale
      Pages 46-55

    8. A Distributed Multi-hop Clustering Algorithm for Infrastructure-Less Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

      • Ahmed Alioua, Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, Samira Moussaoui, Esubalew Alemneh, Med-Ahmed-Amine Derradji, Fella Benaziza
      Pages 68-81

    9. Radar Human Gait Signal Analysis Using Short Time Fourier Transform

      • Negasa B. Teshale, Dinkisa A. Bulti, Habib M. Hussien
      Pages 82-88

    10. Classification of Mammograms Using Convolutional Neural Network Based Feature Extraction

      • Taye Girma Debelee, Mohammadreza Amirian, Achim Ibenthal, Günther Palm, Friedhelm Schwenker
      Pages 89-98

    13. A Corpus for Amharic-English Speech Translation: The Case of Tourism Domain

      • Michael Melese Woldeyohannis, Laurent Besacier, Million Meshesha
      Pages 129-139

    16. Ethiopian Public Universities’ Web Site Usability

      • Worku Kelemework, Abinew Ali
      Pages 159-171

    17. Comparative Analysis of Moving Object Detection Algorithms

      • Habib Mohammed Hussien, Sultan Feisso Meko, Negassa Basha Teshale
      Pages 172-181

    18. Multiple Antenna (MA) for Cognitive Radio Based Wireless Mesh Networks (CRWMNs): Spectrum Sensing (SS)

      • Mulugeta Atlabachew, Jordi Casademont, Yalemzewd Negash
      Pages 182-192

    19. The Design and the Use of Knowledge Management System as a Boundary Object

      • Dejen Alemu, Murray E. Jennex, Temtem Assefa
      Pages 193-202
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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa, ICT4DA 2017, held in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, in September 2017.

The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers address the impact of ICT in fostering economic development in Africa. In detail they cover the following topics: e-services, natural language processing, intelligent systems, mobile and wireless communication, privacy and security.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa

    Fisseha Mekuria

  • Information Technology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Ethiopia Enideg Nigussie

  • Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

    Waltenegus Dargie

  • Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

    Mutafugwa Edward

  • Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

    Tesfa Tegegne

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