South Africa, First International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development

ICT4D is an international conference focusing on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) innovation and impact for developing countries. It provides a unique forum where academic and economic actors of the developing world can meet and exchange. The conference is organized by the SAP/Meraka UTD in Pretoria South Africa in collaboration with CREATE-NET (Italy). The research field covering ICT and development is fairly broad and includes among others the following themes:

* Communication and hardware
o Wireless, ad-hoc, meshed, etc. networks
o Mobile-based computing
o Policies for communication access development
o Sensor networks / alert systems
o Networking and computing in challenged environment
* Business
o ICT for micro/small businesses
o Business support in shared environment
o Interfacing with developed business methodologies
o Social impact of ICT in developing countries
* Education
o E-learning
o Interfaces for illiterate users
o Culturally adapted content
* Environment/Health
o E-diagnosis, expert systems, e-medicine
o Epidemiology, prevention
o Sustainable Agriculture / Natural Resource Exploitation
o Computer assisted agriculture

The conference is organized into three tracks:

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Comment

Comment by George Koranteng Ayisi on June 18, 2009 at 5:10am

As much as i believe that Information and communication Technology has contributed to massive development in Ghana, i would have wish to to participate and share how my country has use ICT as a tool in areas like Banking, Insurance, Mobile Telecommunication, Education development.
Cheers.

Comment by MORENA MOHALE on May 26, 2009 at 9:24am

please sen me a formal invitation regarding the event you can email the invite to kuruetso@webmail.co.za

Comment by MORENA MOHALE on May 8, 2009 at 4:03am

i have just started telecentre in kimberley norther cape south africa it is a great expeince for me eventhough we encounter operational problems but it is worth to be part of this movement. please if any one has some infor regarding financial grant or donation email me morena as we ca not be acttivey involved as e nedede to cause we want to do school campaign next month whicih is june 2009, we are faced with financial constraings to excute th programmess.

Comment by HEMANTA KUMAR CHETIA on April 19, 2009 at 11:22pm

hello Kasim,

Pl. let me know how to join this conference & any further information about this

Comment by noha egypt on April 7, 2009 at 12:35pm

hello mr Karim A. Kasim ,
i wana know how can i join this confernce,, and where it`ll hold exactly

Comment by Lucious O. Phiri on March 18, 2009 at 8:25pm

this will be a awonderful conference to share information-like my country malawi is fully taking ICT as a tool for development-it will be a wonderful conference to participate

Comment by ANIL on January 9, 2009 at 3:47am

Good opportunity to se2 f2f actual work done at grassroots level. as have been getting update (online) abt African ICT4D revolution , much before Indian and other South Asian initiaives.
Cheers