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The IST-Africa 2024 website and paper submission process will be published in the coming weeks. The host Government for IST-Africa 2024 is working through Cabinet approval. Details on country and specific dates in May will be published after this process is completed.

Supported by the European Commission (EC) and African Union Commission (AUC), IST-Africa 2024 (May) is the nineteenth in an annual series of Ministerial Level Technology Policy, Research and Innovation Conferences.

The IST-Africa Conference Series provides a world-class strategic platform rotating around Africa to strengthen technology-enabled Innovation, Science and Technology and Entrepreneurship related policy dialogues within Africa and between Africa, Europe and the rest of the world, Global Development, Research and Innovation Cooperation and Community Building. It also provides an opportunity to identify potential partners for future research cooperation under Horizon Europe and other international funding programs. IST-Africa is a unique community that brings together cross-disciplinary stakeholders from public, private, education and research, societal, funding and international donor sectors with end user communities focused on ICT and STI Research and Innovation and Technology-enabled Entrepreneurship.

IST-Africa 2024 Call for Papers invites full papers (8 pages in length) using the paper guidelines and IST-Africa template for blind peer review by 30 November.

Thematic areas addressing achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include:

• Technology-enabled Healthcare (mHealth /eHealth)
• Technology-enhanced Learning and eSkills
• Technology-enabled Agriculture (mAgriculture /eAgriculture) & Environmental Sustainability
• Energy - ICT for Power Delivery, Micro-grids
• eInfrastructures and NRENs (National Research and Education Networks)
• Next Generation Computing: Big Data, Cloud Computing, Future Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT)
• eGovernment and Public Service Delivery
• Content Technologies: Languages; Digital Preservation
• Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust
• Collaborative Open Innovation and Technology-enabled Entrepreneurship (including Social Entrepreneurship)
• Global Development (including ICT4D)
• Societal and Ethical Implications of Technology

Full papers must present analysis of policy, initial or final research results or a case study. It is important to highlight actual or expected impact as well as the level of innovation. General project descriptions or descriptions of proposed research will not be reviewed.

Please use the paper template and guidelines from http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2023/default.asp?page=paperguidelines  to prepare your paper.