IST-Africa 2021 Conference

10 - 14 May 2021

Programme

IST-Africa 2021 Agenda

Updated: 2021-02-22 11:00:52

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Day 1: 10 May 2021

09:00

09:00	Opening Plenary 1a: Welcome Address
	Welcome Address Mr Buti Manamela, Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, South Africa

09:15

09:15	Session 2a: Cyber Security 1
	Assessing Organisational Information Security Culture Among Workforce in Universities: A Case of Namibia Stanford Musarurwa, International Training College Lingua, Namibia Predicting Cyber Attacks in a Proxy Server using Support Vector Machine (SVM) Learning Algorithm Moses Agana, University of Calabar, Nigeria Recursive Feature Elimination for DDoS Detection on Software Define Network Lonnie Shumirai Matsa, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia A Preliminary Integrated Network Security Framework for Tertiary Institutions Knowledge Rusere, University of South Africa, Namibia

10:35

	Coffee Break : Break

10:40

10:40	Session 3a: Cyber Security 2
	Security by Design: Rethinking Resilience of IoT in Healthcare Sophia Moganedi, CSIR, South Africa A Model for Protecting Personal Information using Blockchain Thauriq Jappie, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Towards User Online Security and Privacy Protection Julius Silaa, Namibia University of Science and Technology , Namibia An Intelligent Security Model For Online Banking Authentication Zanele Zwane, Tshwane University Of Technology, South Africa

12:00

	Coffee Break : Break

12:05

12:05	Plenary Session 4a: Plenary 2
	Lessons Learnt from Leveraging Technological Innovation to Manage a Pandemic Mmboneni Muofhe, Department of Science and Innovation, South Africa

12:20

	Lunch : Lunch

13:20

13:20	Session 5a: Collaborative Open Innovation and ICT-enabled Entrepreneurship
	Biotechnology as a Tool: Empowering Women to Lead Change in Africa Freda Gbande, Kumasi Hive, Ghana Transitioning from Academic Innovation to Viable Humanitarian Technology: The Next Steps for the OpenFlexure Project Joe Knapper, University of Bath, United Kingdom An Ecosystem Enabled Framework for Digital Cooperation - A Collaborative Platform that Supports Technology Enabled Entrepreneurship Brian Omwenga, University of Nairobi, Kenya Mind the Gap: Aligning Software Engineering Education and Industry in Namibia Maria Ndapewa Ntinda, University of Turku, Namibia Automatic Diagnostic Combo Machine (ADCM) Kedumetse Liphi, Ked-LIphi (pty)ltd, Botswana

15:00

	Coffee Break : Break

15:05

15:05	Session 6a: Global Development
	Defining ‘Smart Rural’ in the Framework of Regional Digitalisation Pekko Lindblom, University of Turku, Finland Development by Design Petter Nielsen, University of Oslo, Norway Assessment Regional Attractiveness of African Countries Based on UN SDG Otakar Cerba, Plan4all z.s., Czech Republic Conceptualizing Artefact Influence: A Grounded Theory Exploration of an ICT4D Study in Uganda Musa Chemisto, Soroti University, Uganda

16:30

	Coffee Break : Break

16:35

16:35	Session 7a: Content Technology Applications and Case Studies
	A Method for Classifying Neighbourhoods In GIS Applications by Counting Landmarks Laurie Butgereit, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa Implementing a Content-Based Routing Framework for Application Integration on to Teleweaver Application Server Sikhumbuzo Ngwenya, University of Fort Hare, South Africa Effective Ingestion of Digital Objects in Institutional Repositories Using Subject Repositories Lighton Phiri, University of Zambia, Zambia Model for Semantic Network Generation from Low Resource Languages as Applied to Question Answering – Case of Swahili Barack Wanjawa, University of Nairobi, Kenya Bantu Machine Translation Proof-of-Concept Using ciNyanja and ciYawo Zangaphee Chimombo, University of Malawi - Chancellor College, Malawi

Disclaimer: This is the Advance Programme, which is subject to change. The Final Programme will be published in March, following receipt of all final papers.

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