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<h1><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333399">IST-Africa 2019 Call for Papers Deadline 15 December 2018<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Supported by the European Commission and African Union Commission, IST-Africa 2019 (May) is the fourteenth in an annual series
of Ministerial level Technology Research Conferences. The host country and dates in May will be published after Cabinet approval has been finalised.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">IST-Africa provides a platform in Africa to strengthen ICT-enabled Innovation, Science and Technology related policy dialogues
within Africa and between Africa and Europe, Global Development, Research and Innovation Cooperation and Community Building. It also provides an opportunity to identify potential partners for future research cooperation under Horizon 2020. IST-Africa is a
unique community that brings together cross-disciplinary stakeholders from public, private, education and research, societal sector with end user communities focused on ICT and STI Research and Innovation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Thematic areas include: eHealth/mHealth; Technology-enhanced Learning; eAgriculture/mAgriculture; eInfrastructures and NRENs;
Energy; Next Generation Computing (Big data, Cloud computing, Future Internet, Internet of Things); eGovernment; Content Technologies (Languages, Digital Preservation); Cyber Security; Collaborative Open Innovation and ICT-enabled Entrepreneurship; Global
Development including ICT4D and Societal Implications of Technology. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Please download the
<a href="http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2019/files/ISTAfrica2019_CallforPapers.pdf">
Call for Papers</a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Full Paper Submission<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">IST-Africa 2019 Call for Papers invites
<b>full papers</b> (8 pages in length) using the paper guidelines and IST-Africa template
</span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">provided at
<a href="http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2019/default.asp?page=paperguidelines">
http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2019/default.asp?page=paperguidelines</a> </span>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">to be submitted online for review by
<b>15 December</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">It is necessary for the paper submitted to include a unique element that has not previously been published and any previous
published materials to be clearly referenced (including material previously published by the authors).
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">As papers are double blind peer reviewed, please insert all authors details within the online submission form and
<b>no author </b>details within the <b>Word document uploaded</b>. Save the document as
<b>.doc</b> format prior to uploading.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">It is necessary for all papers to be uploaded by the corresponding author via <a href="http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2019/default.asp?page=submission">http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2019/default.asp?page=submission</a>
in .doc format. Each author will present <b>one paper</b> in the programme. <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Miriam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333399"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></h2>
<h2><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333399">Contact Details</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">IST-Africa Initiative<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">E-mail:
<a href="mailto:secretariat@IST-Africa.org">secretariat@IST-Africa.org</a> Web: <a href="http://www.ist-africa.org/">
www.IST-Africa.org</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/ISTAfricaNews">http://twitter.com/ISTAfricaNews</a></span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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