[IRTalk] Deadline Extended to 2 September : VizAfrica Botswana 2019: CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS http://www.codata.org/news/339/62/Deadline-Extended-to-2-September-VizAfrica-Botswana-2019-CALL-FOR-PRESENTATIONS-AND-POSTERS
Asha CODATA
asha at codata.org
Mon Aug 19 18:26:33 SAST 2019
The VizAfrica 2019 Data Visualization Symposium will take place from 18th
-19th November 2019 at the University of Botswana Gaborone, Botswana.
*The VizAfrica 2019 Symposium Programme Committee is pleased to invite
proposals for presentations and posters that present innovative discussions
of visualizations in the sessions listed below. The deadline for proposals
is Monday 02 September: https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/submit/
<https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/submit/>*
Authors that are selected to give their presentation or display their
poster at the VizAfrica 2019 Botswana Symposium will also be invited to
submit a full paper to a special collection to appear in the CODATA Data
Science Journal <https://datascience.codata.org/>.
The symposium also includes a two weeks Summer School training from 11th
-15th November 2019 on Data Science/Visualization.
Application of Data, Information and Scientific Visualization for Resource
Management and Sustainability
The symposium is part of the University’s mission of improving economic and
social conditions for Botswana while advancing itself as a distinctively
African University with a regional and international outlook. In fulfilling
its mandate in reaching out to and interacting with international
community, the general public, entrepreneurs, scientists and policy makers
on advances in technological innovations for social economic development
and industrialization. 300 participants drawn from government ministries,
universities, research organizations, corporate, small and medium scale
industries (SMEs), policy makers in key sectors of the economy and from
international organizations are expected to attend.
The theme of the symposium is “Application of Data, Information and
Scientific Visualization for Resource Management and Sustainability.”
Under this theme, the symposium has six session themes:
1. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
2. Computer Graphics, Media and Animation
3. Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security
4. Data Analytics, Visualization and Internet of Things (IoTs)
5. Policy Design, Analysis and Strategic Management
6. E-health and Universal Health Coverage
All the six strands/sessions have: Research, industry, keynote speeches and
panel discussions tracks. Please see below for more information on the
session themes.
VizAfrica Summer School, 11-15 November
To contribute to the wider adoption of visualization, the symposium brings
together various actors to engage. In addition, the Summer School scheduled
for 11th-15th November 2019, offer training in data analytics and
visualization towards capacity building.
More information and a call for applications will be published soon.
Call for Presentations and Posters
The theme of the symposium is “Application of Data, Information and
Scientific Visualization for Resource Management and Sustainability.”
*The VizAfrica 2019 Symposium invites papers that present innovative
discussions of visualizations in the sessions listed below. The deadline
for proposals is Monday 02
September: https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/submit/
<https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/submit/>*
*Session 1: Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation *
This session invites papers that present innovative visualizations and
related solutions in multi-disciplinary fields relating to climate change
adaptation and mitigation associated with smart cities, smart energy, smart
transport, smart fisheries and smart agriculture that make use of open
data. Papers are welcome in all areas of climate visualization techniques,
including but not limited to :
-
Visual representation of extreme climate events
-
Interactive exploration of climate simulation results
-
Visual analysis of precipitation patterns
-
Explainable AI for understandable prediction models
*Session 2: Visualization Techniques*
This session covers a wide range of techniques for scientific
visualization, information visualization, and visual analytics. VizAfrica
2019 aims at providing a platform for researchers, engineers,
manufacturers, data scientists, information scientists, and industry
experts to share their results in relation to visualization techniques.
Papers in the following areas are relevant to this track: visualization
foundations, visual encoding, and interactive visualization techniques,
visualization systems and methodologies, interaction, evaluation and user
studies, visual analytics, display techniques, computer graphics techniques.
*Session 3: Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security*
Agriculture, nutrition and food security is a key concern for sustainable
development in Africa and many developing countries. Agriculture, nutrition
and food security is a complex condition requiring a holistic approach to
all forms of malnutrition, the productivity and incomes of small-scale food
producers, resilience of food production systems and the sustainable use of
biodiversity and genetic resources.
This session invites abstracts and papers that demonstrate use of data and
information visualization in agriculture, nutrition, food security and
other related areas.
*Session 4: Data and IoTs Application for Sustainable Development*
Whereas data visualization has great potential for understanding trends and
aid in decision making, its application has not been widely adopted.
Abstracts and papers that demonstrate use of data analytics and
visualization for better understanding of trends and patterns of events
leading to profound improvement in decision making are invited. Included
are abstracts and papers that demonstrate use of visualization tools and
theories for optimization of resources and achievement of UN SDGs,
including national development goals e.g. Botswana National Development
Plan (NDP) II (2017-2023) and the Botswana Vision 2036.
*Session 5: Policy Design, Analysis and Strategic Management*
Policy making is a complex activity that involves striking a balance
between legal requirements, intended outcomes, the limits of scientific
knowledge at any given time, and the public response to the policy. This
session invites abstracts and papers in any of the following areas:
- Data visualization and Decision making in organizations
- Visual-based decision support technologies for policy analysis
- Government transparency, open data, e-government and re-use of public
sector information
- Integrity and privacy issues in information gathering for policy
analysis
- Legal and regulatory aspects of exploiting public data and public
information systems for policy making
- Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation and Directive by the
European Union
- Multi-modality of information sources, methods for information
aggregation and information fusion for policy making
- Values and motivations underlying the use or non-use of public data
and public information systems for policy making
- Use of AI and Data Analysis in prevention of inequalities and
injustices in society
- Impact of quantum computing in policy formulation
- Crowd sourcing governance
- Citizen science
*Session 6: E-Health and Universal Health Coverage*
A holistic approach focused on ensuring healthy lives and promoting the
universal well-being is required in order to achieve sustainable
development. Healthcare is currently intertwined with computer science,
social science, behavioral science and information science. Health
innovations are geared towards resources, devices and techniques required
to optimize acquisition, storage, retrieval processing and use of
information in health and biomedicine.
This session invites abstracts and papers on research and case studies from
the following topics:
- Data Collection and Data Mining in e-Health Applications
- Mobile and e-Health System Innovations
- E-Health services, Internet of Things (IoT) and Fog Computing in
Healthcare
- Wearable and Implantable applications
- E-Health Software Design visualization
- Advances in sensor devices for biomedical monitoring
- Health Data Acquisition, Management and Visualization
- Body Area networks (architectures, protocols, scheduling, etc.)
- Clinical Informatics and Health Information Systems
- Healthcare Knowledge Management and Decision Support
- Healthcare telemetry and telemedicine
- Healthcare Modeling and Simulation
- Remote diagnosis and patient management
- All-pervasive and non-invasive health monitoring wireless systems
- Personal Health Train (PHT) application
- Imaging Science
- Patient Diagnosis Methods
- Patient Monitoring Systems
- Regenerative Medicine
- Systems Physiology
- Telemedicine
- Computer-Aided Surgery
Guidelines on Abstracts
We recommend that the abstract be 600-1000 words
Posters
The theme of the symposium is “Application of Data, Information and
Scientific Visualization for Resource Management and Sustainability.”
Posters should address one of the following six sessions:
1. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
2. Computer Graphics, Media and Animation
3. Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security
4. Data Analytics, Visualization and IoTs for Sustainable Development
5. Policy Design Analysis and Strategic Management
6. E-Health Universal Health Coverage
Guidelines on Posters
Posters will be an important feature of VizAfrica 2019 Bostwana. The
Organisers and Programme Committee will endeavour to ensure that all poster
presenters have an opportunity to give a lightning talk as well as
participating in the poster reception. Posters can often be a more
effective way of communicating key technical features of a paper and
providing a visual summary that really engages the viewer.
Poster proposals must be submitted to a specific session. Poster Proposals
should be 600-1000 words. Please describe the subject of the proposed
poster in as much detail as possible. Describe the structure of the poster.
Above all, let us know:
1. Why will this be an interesting feature of the symposium?
2. Why is it particularly suited to a poster and/or demo session?
3. Why the poster or demo will catch delegates' attention and why will
they stop and listen to you?
Thanks,
Asha
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Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | http://www.codata.org
E-Mail: asha at codata.org
Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96
CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue
Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE
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Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | http://www.codata.org
E-Mail: asha at codata.org
Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96
CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue
Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE
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