Full Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, AFRICOMM 2017, held in Lagos, Nigeria, in December 2017.
The 19 full papers, 12 short papers and 5 workshop papers were carefully selected from 81 submissions. The papers were presented in eight sessions: e-government, network and load management, digital inclusion, knowledge extraction, representation and sharing, networks and communications, ICT applications for development, decision support, e-business and e-services, internet measurement.
Contents
A Model for Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Citizen-Centric e-Government in Namibia.- Towards an Interoperability e-Government Framework for Uganda.- The state of e-Government security in South Africa: Analysing the national information security policy.- A Priority Load-Aware Scheduling Algorithm for Wireless Broadband Networks.- Scheduling Cloud Workloads using Carry-On Weighted Round Robin.- Performance analysis of a collaborative DSA-based network with malicious nodes.- Digital Inclusion: A model for e-Infrastructure and e-Services in Developing Countries.- SV4D Architecture: Building Sustainable Villages for Developing Countries.- Design and Implementation of a Smart Meter Towards a Persuasive Technology for electricity theft reduction in Uganda.- The Role of Culture in the Design of Effective Cybersecurity Training and Awareness Programmes. A case Study of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).- Development of Collaborative Customer Service Officer Knowledge Sharing System (CCSOKSS).- A Secured Preposition-Enabled Natural Language Parser for Extracting Spatial Context from Unstructured Data.- Implementation and Performance Analysis of Trellis Coded Modulation in Additive White Gaussian Noise.- Resource Efficient Algorithm for D2D Communications between Adjacent & Co-channel Cells of LTE Networks.- 5G Dilemma of Supporting Contrasting Narrowband and Broadband Services.- Design of Novel High Density, Fault Tolerant Protocol for Cluster Based Routing in Ad-Hoc Networks.- SafeTransit: A Transit Safety Information Gathering Decision System.- Tackling the Issues of Powering Mobile IoT Sensors and Systems Using Off-Grid Sources of Energy, the Case of the Real-time Web-based Temperature Monitoring System in Malawi.- A Novel Mobile Phone Contact List Based on Social Relations.- Design of a Secure Public Accounts System for Enhanced War against Corruption Using Intelligent Software Agent.- A User-CentricDecision Support Model for Cloud of Things Adoption Using Ellipsoidal Fuzzy Inference System.- Enhancing Business Decision Making Through Actionable Knowledge Discovery Using An Hybridized MCDM Model .- Comparative Analysis of Supervised Learning for Sentiment Classification.- An empirical study on the adoption of consumer-to consumer e-commerce: Integrating the UTAUT model and the initial trust model.- Enterprises in Botswana.- Blockchain Consensus Protocols: Towards a Review of Practical Constraints for Implementation in Developing Countries.- Exploring E-Procurement adoption in the context of a developing country: The case of Lesotho.- Smartphone Usage among Millennial in Finland and Implications for Marketing Segmentation Strategies: Lessons for Nigeria.- Measuring IPv6 Adoption in Africa.- Reputation Rating Algorithm for BGP Links.- Internet Performance Measurements for Education and Research Network in Kenya.- On the African Peering Connectivity Revealable via BGP Route Collectors.- Ego-centered view to overcome the Internet Measurement Challenges in West Africa.
