<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><img src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/ub_vizafrica1.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="151" style="margin:5px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;float:right"></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The VizAfrica 2019 Data Visualization Symposium will take place from 18th -19th November 2019 at the University of Botswana Gaborone, Botswana.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">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: <a href="https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/submit/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(45,53,142)" target="_blank">https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/submit/</a></strong></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">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/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(45,53,142)" target="_blank">CODATA Data Science Journal</a>.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The symposium also includes a two weeks Summer School training from 11th -15th November 2019 on Data Science/Visualization.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><img src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/vizafrica2019.png" alt="" width="600" height="133" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></p><h3 style="margin:8px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:22px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:32px;color:rgb(45,53,142)">Application of Data, Information and Scientific Visualization for Resource Management and Sustainability</h3><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><img src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/UB%20pic.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="128" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The theme of the symposium is “Application of Data, Information and Scientific Visualization for Resource Management and Sustainability.”</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Under this theme, the symposium has six session themes:</p><ol style="margin:0px 0px 0px 10px;padding:0px 0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68);list-style-position:initial;line-height:26px"><li style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Computer Graphics, Media and Animation</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Data Analytics, Visualization and Internet of Things (IoTs)</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Policy Design, Analysis and Strategic Management</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">E-health and Universal Health Coverage</li></ol><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">All the six strands/sessions have: Research, industry, keynote speeches and panel discussions tracks.  Please see below for more information on the session themes.</p><h3 style="margin:8px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:22px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:32px;color:rgb(45,53,142)">VizAfrica Summer School, 11-15 November</h3><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">More information and a call for applications will be published soon.</p><h3 style="margin:8px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:22px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:32px;color:rgb(45,53,142)">Call for Presentations and Posters</h3><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The theme of the symposium is “Application of Data, Information and Scientific Visualization for Resource Management and Sustainability.”</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">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: <a href="https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/submit/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(45,53,142)" target="_blank">https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/submit/</a></strong></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Session 1: Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation </strong></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">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 :</p><ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;list-style:none;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Visual representation of extreme climate events</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Interactive exploration of climate simulation results</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Visual analysis of precipitation patterns</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Explainable AI for understandable prediction models</p></li></ul><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Session 2: Visualization Techniques<br></strong><br>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.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Session 3: Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security</strong></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">This session invites abstracts and papers that demonstrate use of data and information visualization in agriculture, nutrition, food security and other related areas.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Session 4: Data and IoTs Application for Sustainable Development</strong></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Session 5: Policy Design, Analysis and Strategic Management</strong></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">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:</p><ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;list-style:none;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Data visualization and Decision making in organizations</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Visual-based decision support technologies for policy analysis</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Government transparency, open data, e-government and re-use of public sector information</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Integrity and privacy issues in information gathering for policy analysis</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Legal and regulatory aspects of exploiting public data and public information systems for policy making</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation and Directive by the European Union</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Multi-modality of information sources, methods for information aggregation and information fusion for policy making</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Values and motivations underlying the use or non-use of public data and public information systems for policy making</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Use of AI and Data Analysis in prevention of inequalities and injustices in society</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Impact of quantum computing in policy formulation</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Crowd sourcing governance</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Citizen science </li></ul><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Session 6: E-Health and Universal Health Coverage</strong></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">This session invites abstracts and papers on research and case studies from the following topics:</p><ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;list-style:none;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Data Collection and Data Mining in e-Health Applications</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Mobile and e-Health System Innovations</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">E-Health services, Internet of Things (IoT) and Fog Computing in Healthcare</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Wearable and Implantable applications</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">E-Health Software Design visualization</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Advances in sensor devices for biomedical monitoring</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Health Data Acquisition, Management and Visualization</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Body Area networks (architectures, protocols, scheduling, etc.)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Clinical Informatics and Health Information Systems</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Healthcare Knowledge Management and Decision Support</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Healthcare telemetry and telemedicine</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Healthcare Modeling and Simulation</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Remote diagnosis and patient management</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">All-pervasive and non-invasive health monitoring wireless systems</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Personal Health Train (PHT) application</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Imaging Science</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Patient Diagnosis Methods</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Patient Monitoring Systems</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Regenerative Medicine</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploa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nherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Why will this be an interesting feature of the symposium?</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Why is it particularly suited to a poster and/or demo session?</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Why the poster or demo will catch delegates' attention and why will they stop and listen to you?</li></ol></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Asha</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_-2444587784528160162m_-142510395128074565gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#1155cc"><b><u><br></u></b></font><a href="http://codata2019.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1" style="font-weight:bold" target="_blank">REGISTRATION OPEN: CODATA 2019 Beijing, 19-20 Sept</a>: Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms<br><br><a href="https://vizafrica.codata.org/2019-Botswana/" style="font-weight:bold" target="_blank">VizAfrica Botswana, 18-19 Nov: Call for Presentations and Posters</a> - deadline 19 August<br><br><a href="https://conference.codata.org/Helsinki-CODATA-2019/" style="font-weight:bold" target="_blank">CODATA-Helsinki Workshop on FAIR RDM in Institutions, 20-21 Oct (pre-RDA Event: Call for Presentations and Posters</a> - deadline 6 Sept<br><br><a href="http://www.codata.org/news/338/62/Call-for-Applications-to-Host-International-Data-Week-2021-or-2023" target="_blank"><b>Call for Applications to Host International Data Week 2021 or 2023</b></a> - deadline 30 September<br><br><a href="http://codata.org/blog/2019/08/01/july-2019-publications-in-the-data-science-journal/" target="_blank"><b>July 2019 Publications</b></a><b> in the <a href="https://datascience.codata.org/" target="_blank">CODATA Data Science Journal</a> </b><br><br><b>Stay in touch with CODATA:</b><br><br>Stay up to date with CODATA activities: <a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/codata-international_lists.codata.org" target="_blank"><b>join the CODATA International News list</b></a><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="font-size:small;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Looking for training and career opportunities in data science and data stewardship?</span><span class="m_-2444587784528160162m_-142510395128074565gmail-m_-1735631230559521926m_4598651564871338481gmail-m_-4676771295033343404Apple-converted-space" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><b><a href="http://lists.codata.org/mailman/listinfo/data_science_training_lists.codata.org" target="_blank">Sign up to the CODATA early career community-run data science training and careers list</a></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">___________________________<br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:asha@codata.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">asha@codata.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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