ICT4DA 2022 : 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa

Welcome to ICT4DA2022

The 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA2022), will take place in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on 28-30 November, 2022. ICT4DA2022 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.
Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements
The topics of interest cover all aspects of ICT towards the socioeconomic development but not limited to the topics in the tracks below. Please visit the call for paper page for more re detailed topic list.
Here are the tracks and its chairs

Track 1: Intelligent Systems & Data Science
Woubishet Zewdu , Aalto University, Finland

Decision support systems, Autonomous multi-agent systems, Fuzzy logic systems
Machine learning and deep learning, 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
Thomas Olwal, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa

Emerging networks, Network virtualization and SDN, AI in wireless networks and cognitive radios, 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
Behailu Shiferaw , University of Turku, Finland

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
Ethiopia Nigussie, University of Turku ,Finland

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)
Michael Melese, Addis Ababa University

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 the web, social media, and computational social science, Machine learning in NLP

Track 6: Information systems and services
Debas Sinishaw, Bahir Dar Institute of Technology, Bahir Dar University

IS implementation, adoption and diffusion, 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

Important Dates:

Paper Submission deadline June 30, 2022
Acceptance Notification August 15, 2022
Camera Ready Deadline September 12 ,2022
Registration Date October 01.2022
Conference Dates November 28-30 , 2022