<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12pt"><div class="yiv9944109266WordSection1"><br><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:#009900;"> </span></b></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:#009900;">The African Society for Information and Communication Technology(ASICT)</span></b></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;"> <img id="yiv9944109266Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:_com_android_email_attachmentprovider_1_1308_RAW@sec.galaxytab" border="0" width="133" height="150"></span></b></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:17.0pt;color:#009900;">6th Annual International Conference on ICT for Africa </span></b></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#009900;">October 1-4, 2014, YAOUNDE, CAMEROON</span></b></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">Host Institutions: The ICT University USA/Cameroon; International Center for IT and Development, Southern University USA, Makerere University Business School Uganda</span></b></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;">Theme: Harnessing ICT in Education for Global Competitiveness</span></b></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;">(All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings under an ISBN reference)</span></i></b></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333;"> </span></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#333333;">The International Conference on ICT for Africa is an annual conference that brings together stakeholders of the educational and industrial sectors in Africa, with the aim of reflecting on how to transfer, diffuse and adopt the Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) within the African context; the innovation and development of ICT solutions for and within this context; impacts of ICT on society and of society on ICT; and other relevant normative, empirical, and theoretical concerns of ICT development, implementation, strategy, management and policy that are distinctive to Africa and associated developing economies. </span></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#333333;"> </span></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#333333;" lang="EN-GB">The ICT4Africa 2014 Conference therefore seeks to bring together both scholars and practitioners under the theme “</span><span style="color:#333333;">Harnessing ICT in Education for Global Competitiveness” </span><span style="color:#333333;" lang="EN-GB">to present papers </span><span style="color:#333333;">that among others, interrogate issues on the
appropriate and effective use of ICTs in education; concepts and ideas on innovative use of ICT to </span><span style="color:#333333;" lang="EN-GB">improve the quality of education by making teaching and learning an engaging and active process connected to real life; using ICT to improve quality of education, increase accessibility to quality education; effectiveness, cost, equity, and sustainable use of ICTs in education; </span><span style="color:#333333;">findings of research on ICT usage in education; use of ICT for civic education and dissemination of political information; inform education policy makers and planners on the ICTs on grounds that can be harnessed for education in Africa and policy framework for effective implementation and innovative use of ICT to improve Africa’s </span><span style="color:#333333;" lang="EN-GB">global competitiveness in education, research and development, governance, and wealth creation</span><span
style="color:#333333;">. The conference creates a forum where participants can disseminate their research to a wide audience of scholars and practitioners of ICT in Africa and beyond. </span></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#333333;"> </span></div><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#333333;">The 2014 conference, to be hosted by ICT University, Yaounde, Cameroun on <b>October 1-4, 2014</b>, is in the process of receiving submissions from prospective participants. We invite you to submit your high quality papers to any of the tracks listed below:</span></div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"><br style="" clear="all"></span><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal"> </div><div align="center"><table class="yiv9944109266MsoNormalTable" style="width:545.6pt;border-collapse:collapse;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="727"><tbody><tr><td
style="width:269.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="359"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333;"><br style="" clear="all"></span><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="margin-left:20.8pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">ICT for teacher training and teaching profession</span></div></td><td style="width:276.4pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="369"><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="margin-left:20.2pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">Policies, Strategies and Guidelines for ICT in
Education</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:269.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="359"><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="margin-left:20.8pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">ICT in Research and Development</span></div></td><td style="width:276.4pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="369"><div class="yiv9944109266MsoNormal" style="margin-left:20.2pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">Sustainability of
ICT</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:269.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="359"><div class="yiv9944109266MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:20.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">ICT in Education and E-learning </span></div></td><td style="width:276.4pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="369"><div class="yiv9944109266MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:20.2pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span
style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">ICT for Development, Economic Prosperity and good governance </span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:269.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="359"><div class="yiv9944109266MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:20.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">ICT, Entrepreneurship and Business</span></div></td><td style="width:276.4pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="369"><div class="yiv9944109266MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:20.2pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">Cloud Computing In Africa</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:269.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="359"><div class="yiv9944109266MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:20.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">ICT in Healthcare</span></div></td><td style="width:276.4pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"
valign="top" width="369"><div class="yiv9944109266MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:20.2pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">ICT and Indigenous Knowledge Management </span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:269.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="359"><div class="yiv9944109266MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:20.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">Innovation, Open-source and Software Development</span></div></td><td
style="width:276.4pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="369"><div class="yiv9944109266MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:20.2pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">ICT and Creative Industries: Gaming, Fashion, Music and Movies</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:269.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="359"><div class="yiv9944109266MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:20.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span
style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">ICT, Development and Poverty Reduction</span></div></td><td style="width:276.4pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="369"><div class="yiv9944109266MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:20.2pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">Accounting Information Systems at the Workplace</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="width:269.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top" width="359"><div class="yiv9944109266MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:20.8pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="">Ubiquitous / Mobile Computing & Applications</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="y_msg_container"><img src="cid:1.1848628566@web171204.mail.ir2.yahoo.com"><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>