Digital Innovation for Sustainable and Inclusive Economic Development
ICT4DA-2023
5th International Conference
5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA2023), will take place in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on 26-28 November, 2023. ICT4DA2023 is aims to bring together researchers, engineers, developers, and practitioners from the academia and the industry to present and discuss their research work in the area of ICT for Development. This conference seeks to facilitate the transfer of experience, adaptation of methods, and where possible, foster collaboration among different groups.Â
The topics of interest cover all aspects of ICT towards the socioeconomic development but not limited to the topics in the tracks below.Â
Track 1: Intelligent Systems & Data Science
Decision support systems
Autonomous multi-agent systems
Fuzzy logic systems
Machine learning and deep learning
Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML)
Data Science and Big Data analytics
Statistical learning algorithms, models and theories
Application of IoT and AI to solve societal problems in agriculture, healthcare, industry, and others
Track 2: Wireless Communications & Emerging Networking
Emerging networks, Network virtualization and SDN
AI in wireless networks and cognitive radiosÂ
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other autonomous Communication Systems
IoT and smart sensing in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4th IR) applications.
Satellite and space communication
Affordable broadband wireless networks for emerging economy
5G and beyond networks for the sustainable development goals
Future Internet systems and community networks
Green networks, smart grid and power-line communications
Track 3: Computing Systems
Software Development Methods and Techniques
Requirements Engineering
Software Architecture, Design, Testing and Quality Assurance
Software maintenance and evolution
Software Project Management
Virtualization and Containers
Embedded systems
Energy Harvesting, and Energy Management Systems
Circuits and HW Systems for Emerging Technologies
Track 4: Security and Privacy
Access control and security models
Cloud, Internet of Things, and embedded systems security
Internet, communication and network security
Forensics, hardware and biometric security
Software security and malware
Intrusion detection and prevention systems
Security and privacy policies and trust management
Data and AI systems security
Track 5: Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Speech recognition, speech synthesis
Dialogue and multilingual Interactive Systems
Narrative understanding and commonsense reasoning
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Multimodal and grounded language processing
Summarization and Information Extraction
Applications of NLP on web, social media, and computational social science
Machine learning in NLP
Track 6: Information systems and servicesÂ
IS implementation, adoption and diffusion   Â
Philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches in IS
Human computer interaction
eService, digital government and platforms
Innovative digital technologies in business, public & economic services including resilient infrastructures, climate change, pandemics, and other Challenges.
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Important Dates
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Paper Submission deadline
July 20, 2023 - CLOSED
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Acceptance Notification
September 01, 2023 NOTIFIED
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Camera Ready Deadline
October 10, 2023 CLOSED
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Registration Date
October 15, 2023 CLOSED
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Conference Dates
October 26 - 28, 2023