<div dir="ltr"><div id=":202" class="" style="margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div id=":201" class="" style="overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Apologies for crossposting if you have received this message  before now.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Colleague,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Covenant
University in furtherance of the continued quest to make local and global
contributions, established the International Conference of African
Development Issues (CU-ICADI) series as a unique platform to engender
innovative contributions towards value enhancement and capacity development of
the black man and indeed, the African continent.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The theme
of  this year’s conference CU-ICADI 2015 is <b>“Biotechnology,
ICT, Materials and Renewable Energy: Potential Catalyst for African
Development”</b>.<b> </b>Therefore<b>, </b>the thematic interests
of CU-ICADI 2015 cover a wide spectrum of topics that pertain to
issues of African development in the fields of biotechnology, ICT, material
science and engineering, and renewable energy.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Further
details on CU-ICADI 2015, the Call for Papers and other useful
information can be found in the links below.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://cu-icadi.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/" target="_blank">http://cu-icadi.covenantuniversity.edu.ng</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://cu-icadi.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/call-for-papers/" target="_blank">http://cu-icadi.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/call-for-papers/</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://cu-icadi.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/abstract-submission/" target="_blank">http://cu-icadi.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/abstract-submission/</a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I invite
you to participate in CU-ICADI 2015. The conference will feature
keynote addresses and guest lectures, panel/roundtable discussions by renowned
academics and industry experts, including a Nobel Peace Laureate. Also, I want
to invite you to submit academic papers for presentation at the
conference. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I urge
you to kindly extend this information to other colleagues within your
professional network.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The
important dates are as follows:</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(9,7,7);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Submission of abstract:  <b><s>January
31, 2015</s></b> <b>February 20, 2015</b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(9,7,7);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Notification of acceptance of
abstract: <b>February 9 (1^st batch), February
25,2015 (2^nd batch)</b>.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(9,7,7);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Full-paper submission: <b>March
15, 2015</b>.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(9,7,7);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Notification
of acceptance of full-papers: <b>April 15, 2015</b>.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We look
forward to your participation in CU-ICADI 2015.<br clear="all">
</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thank you.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Publication
opportunity</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">All accepted and
presented papers at the conference will be published in a Conference Proceedings
with a ISBN, and will subsequently be indexed in some of the world’s most
voluminous open-access academic databases such as:</span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Ulrichsweb</span><span class=""><span style="font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">EBSCO </span><span class=""><span style="font-size:5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Google Scholar</span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">BASE </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">CEUR </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">ArXiv</span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify">CiteULike<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">

















</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">In addition, authors
of accepted papers would be invited to submit extended versions of their papers
to some selected <b>high-impact SCOPUS/
ISI-listed journals</b>, and <b>Covenant
University journals</b> after the conference.</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Olawande Daramola</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Conference Chair</font></p></div><div class=""><div id=":23c" class="" tabindex="0"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><img class="" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="" id=":20y"><div class="" style="width:467.4052734375px"></div><div class="">-- <br></div></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Olawande Daramola (PhD)<br>Associate Professor (Computer Science),<br>Deputy Dean, School of Natural and Applied Sciences (SNAS),<br>Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.<br>+2348171883079<br></div></div>
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