| "ICT's Role Towards a Knowledge Economy" |
CALL FOR PAPERS
9th Annual ICT Conference
ICT's Role Towards a Knowledge Economy
5-6 September 2008, Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya
Website:http://www.strathmore.edu/ictconference/2008/
Since the year 2000, the Faculty of Information Technology at Strathmore University has organised an annual ICT Conference. The Conference brings together academics, researchers, students, young professionals and industry experts to discuss about their research and share their experiences about the latest developments in the industry and its application in both the private and public sectors. Every year, the conference offers a unique opportunity for participants to engage in discussions centred on a particular theme selected by both academics and industry practitioners. This year, our conference theme is "ICT's Role Towards a Knowledge Economy".
The first day is singled out for the academics and other researchers to highlight and showcase their research to their peers. It allows academics, researchers and students to have discussions centred on the new developments from their individual research. On the second day, the conference offers a forum for the invited speakers' and industrial experts both in public and private sectors to highlight and discuss about the experiences in Industry. It is also intended to be a focus for awareness towards the uptake and implementations of ICT in the different sectors of the economy.
Posters by young researchers, students and/or young professionals will be on display in prominent locations for two days of the conference. The posters will be grouped under specific sections based on the sub-themes of the ICT conference to enable sharing of research findings in higher institutions of learning in the country.
Topics of this year's ICT conference includes but is not limited to:
ICT and Governance;
Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems;
Business Processes Outsourcing (BPO) and Social Contexts – Reaching beyond the enterprise;
Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services Sector;
Collaborative Electronic Communication and the Public Sector;
E-Learning and Business Needs.
Proceedings
The proceedings of the conference will be published in "Proceedings of the Annual Strathmore University ICT Conference 2008".
Previous years' proceedings are available online at our website URL http://www.strathmore.edu/ictconference/2008/ and could also be purchased during this year's ICT Conference. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, provided at least one author of the paper registers to present it during the conference.
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit their abstracts (max. 300 words) latest by the 29th of June 2008. The abstracts will be reviewed and based the outcome; authors will be invited to submit a draft copy of either a full paper or short/poster paper by the 16th of August 2008.
For submission purposes, a full paper should be between 8 to 12 pages while short papers or posters should be between 4 to 6 pages both in Word format. The paper should contain sufficient detail to allow the academic committee to evaluate its validity, quality and relevance. Submitted papers should describe original work that has not been previously published and is also not under review for publication elsewhere.
All papers should be submitted by email to Dr. Ismail Ateya (). More information will be provided at URL http://www.strathmore.edu/ict conference/2008/ . Only electronic submissions will be accepted.
Important Dates
Call Papers: 20th May 2008
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 29th June 2008
Deadline of Submission of First version of Papers: 16th August 2008
Deadline for Final Version: 29th August 2008
Organizing Committee
Dr. Joseph Sevilla, Dr. Freddie Acosta, Dr. Ismail Ateya, Mr. Melvin Ballera, Mr. John Matogo, Mr. Nicodemus Maingi, Ms. Rachel Waema
Contacts
Dr. Ismail Ateya Lukandu
Strathmore University, Ole Sangale Road, Madaraka
P. O. Box 59857, 00200, City Square, Nairobi Kenya.
Tel: +254 (0) 20 606155/ 606268/ 606380/606492
Fax: +254 (0) 20 607498
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TIME: 7:00pm
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DATE: June 6th 2008
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