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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Forwarded on behalf of the organisers</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><img width="300" height="151" id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/ub_vizafrica1.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">The VizAfrica 2019 Data Visualization Symposium will take place from 18th -19th November 2019 at the University of Botswana Gaborone, Botswana.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">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 19 August: <a href="https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/submit/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2D358E">https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/submit/</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">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 <a href="https://datascience.codata.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2D358E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">CODATA Data Science Journal</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">The symposium also includes a two weeks Summer School training from 11th -15th November 2019 on Data Science/Visualization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333"><img border="0" width="600" height="133" id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/vizafrica2019.png"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#2D358E">Application of Data, Information and Scientific Visualization for Resource Management and Sustainability<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333"><img border="0" width="600" height="128" id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/UB%20pic.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">The theme of the symposium is “Application of Data, Information and Scientific Visualization for Resource Management and Sustainability.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">Under this theme, the symposium has six session themes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444">Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444">Computer Graphics, Media and Animation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444">Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444">Data Analytics, Visualization and Internet of Things (IoTs)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444">Policy Design, Analysis and Strategic Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444">E-health and Universal Health Coverage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">All the six strands/sessions have: Research, industry, keynote speeches and panel discussions tracks. Please see below for more information on the session themes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#2D358E">VizAfrica Summer School, 11-15 November<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">More information and a call for applications will be published soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#2D358E">Call for Presentations and Posters<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">The theme of the symposium is “Application of Data, Information and Scientific Visualization for Resource Management and Sustainability.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">The VizAfrica 2019 Symposium invites papers that present innovative discussions of visualizations in the sessions listed below. The
deadline for proposals is Monday 19 August: <a href="https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/submit/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2D358E">https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/submit/</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Session 1: Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">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 :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">Visual representation of extreme climate events<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">Interactive exploration of climate simulation results<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">Visual analysis of precipitation patterns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Session 2: Visualization Techniques</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><br>
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Session 3: Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">This session invites abstracts and papers that demonstrate use of data and information visualization in agriculture, nutrition, food security and other related areas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Session 4: Data and IoTs Application for Sustainable Development</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Session 5: Policy Design, Analysis and Strategic Management</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444">Data visualization and Decision making in organizations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444">Government transparency, open data, e-government and re-use of public sector information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Session 6: E-Health and Universal Health Coverage</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#333333">This session invites abstracts and papers on research and case studies from the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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