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multiple postings]
Dear Colleagues,
We are happy to announce that
registrations are opened for the First EAI International Conference on
Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for
Underserved Areas, April
11-12, 2017 in
Dakar, Senegal.
Note: if you are
registering from/within the African continent, you are
eligible for a discount. Please contact the conference manager
@:
lenka.laukova@eai.eu.
Please find below some highlights for the
conference:
Workshop
InterSol2017 will
be co-located with the 6th Annual CNRIA
Workshop.
The
CNRIA conference is a highly interactive conference that
enables an effective interchange of results and ideas
among researchers, industry, and product developers. .Read more…
Special Session
Special Session
on Development
Innovation Learning and Innovation in Learning.
Development
discourse emerged in the 1940s alongside the idea of
innovation. Innovation meant technology transfer from
particularly Western countries to non-Western countries
and Africa in particular. Since then learning approaches
have been developed to support the diffusion of foreign
technologies. Read more…
Roundtable
InterSol2017 will
offer a roundtable
that brings together researchers and socio-economic
actors in
underserved areas to exchange and enable
interdisciplinary research projects. This roundtable is
aimed at community organizations, farmers’ and
fishermen’s associations, women’s NGO as well as
inventors, researchers and students interested in
interdisciplinary research projects targeting
underserved areas. Read more…
Poster Session
PhD Poster Session
We invite PhD students to submit extended
abstract of their research for poster presentation during
the InterSol2017 Conference.
This will offer a unique opportunity for students to share
their work with an international audience. Read more…
Keynote Speakers
InterSol2017 is
also a panel of outstanding keynote speakers including (see details):
- Prof. Eric A. Brewer: Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley,
VP Infrastructure, Google
- Dr
Abdella Battou: Division
Chief, Advanced Network Technologies, National
Institute of Standards and Technology
- Prof.
Sanjay Misra: Professor
of Computer Engineering at Covenant University, Ota,
Nigeria
- Dr. Arame Tall: GFCS
Regional Coordinator for Africa, Dakar,
Senegal
- Prof. Mammo Muchie: Tshwane
University of Technology, South Africa
Social Program
InterSol is
also a social program guided by the Senegalese
“Teranga” (hospitality) (see details):
- Welcome
mini-Cocktail at the hall of Novotel Hotel, Monday, April 10, 2017,
6:30pm:
- Tour
at the historic Goree Island followed by reception
dinner, Tuesday,
April 11, 2017,
4pm:
- Visit
at the "Monument
de la Renaissance Africaine", Tuesday, April 12, 2017,
5:30pm