Welcome

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

Due to unforeseen circumstances, IST-Africa 2024 will take place as a virtual event during May.

IST-Africa Week 2024 will provide a world-class international forum to showcase existing technology-enabled Research, Innovation and ICT4D activities and capacity in Africa, Europe and other parts of the world. The Conference Programme combines strategic keynote presentations, a High-Level Roundtable, technical and policy papers, case studies and workshops. It also provides an opportunity to identify potential partners for future research cooperation under Horizon Europe.

The goals of the IST-Africa Conference Series are to

- Support Development of the Information Society and Knowledge Economy in Africa

- Promote International Research Innovation, and Policy Cooperation and Coordination

- Showcase African Research and Innovation Capacity

- Stimulate exploitation of research results by the public and private sectors

2024 Final Paper Submission / Advance Programme

Authors with accepted papers should prepare updated papers using the IST-Africa paper template taking account of feedback provided and upload the final paper in Word format (.doc Word 97 - 2003) by 01 March via their My Page

Please keep a log of changes made in the final paper in a separate document. The final paper uploaded should include all authors details and be ready for quality check for publication.

After uploading the updated final paper, please send a Word document with this documentation of changes to secretariat@IST-Africa.org to assist in the quality review of papers received.

Each presenter will present once in the Programme.

Any requests to change the presenting author should be sent by email to secretariat@IST-Africa.org so the paper block can be moved and online Programme updated.

Advance Programme

The IST-Africa 2024 Advance Programme incorporates 23 thematically focused sessions featuring over 100 presenters from the public, private, education, research and societal organisations from 20 countries. Click here to view presentations within sessions.

Please note that session times are based on UTC+1. Please adjust accordingly to your time zone.

Thematic areas include:

- Monday 20 May - CyberSecurity, Societal Implications of Technology

- Tuesday 21 May - eHealth, Global Development and ICT-enabled Entrepreneurship

- Wednesday 22 May - Next Generation Computing, Content Technologies

- Thursday 23 May - Technology-enhanced Learning,

- Friday 24 May - eGovernment, Energy and eInfrastructures, eAgriculture and Environmental Sustainability

Registration

Click here to complete conference registration

Presenter Registration Deadline - 08 March

Early Bird Delegate Registration Deadline - 29 March