---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: van Greunen, Darelle (Ms) (Summerstrand Campus North) <Darelle.vanGreunen@nmmu.ac.za> Date: Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:34 Subject: [hci4d] AFRICOMM 2009 - Call for Participation To: "hci4d@googlegroups.com" <hci4d@googlegroups.com> AFRICOMM 2009 1st International ICST Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries 3-4 December 2009, Maputo, Mozambique www.africomm.eu CALL FOR PARTICIPATION KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Venancio Massingue, Minister of Science and Technology, Mozambique Apala Lahiri, Human Factors International, India Venansius Baryamureeba, Dean and Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Makerere University, Uganda Danie Kok, Director of Research, SAP Centre, Pretoria Mark J. Harris, Vice President, CEEMEA Business Development & Africa Geo Expansion *** SPONSORS Sponsored by ICST, CREATE-NET, UNDP, Fraunhofer Fokus, IBM, Fundazione Bruno Kessler and Provincia autonoma di Trento Technically co-sponsored by UTICT Media Partner: DiploFoundation *** AIMS AND SCOPE Deploying efficient and effective infrastructures and solutions when limited resources are available is a challenging task and a key-enabler for the diffusion of ICT in growing countries. The aim of this conference is to bring together international researchers, public officers, 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. AFRICOMM 2009, the first conference of the series, is organized into three tracks, two of them organized as Research Tracks and one as Policy & Governance Track. *** AGENDA The technical program is available at http://www.africomm.eu/agenda.shtml *** REGISTRATION The early registration deadline is 15 November. Please note that students and participants from Africa without a paper or with a position paper are eligible for complimentary registration. To register, please visit http://www.africomm.eu/registration.shtml *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference General Chair Radu Popescu-Zeletin, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Conference General Co-Chair Alessandro Zorer, CREATE-NET, Italy Technical Program Chair Lourino Chemane, UTICT, Mozambique Technical Program Co-Chair Darelle van Greunen, N. Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa For a complete list of committee members, please visit http://www.africomm.eu/committees.shtml ________________________________ NOTICE: Please note that this eMail, and the contents thereof, is subject to the standard NMMU eMail disclaimer which may be found at: http://www.nmmu.ac.za/disclaimer/email.htm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hci4d" group. To post to this group, send email to hci4d@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hci4d+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hci4d?hl=.