The 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa (ICT4DA-2024), will take place in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on 18-30 November, 2024. ICT4DA-2024 aims to bring together researchers, engineers, developers, and practitioners from the academia and the industry to present and discuss their research work in the area of ICT for Development. This conference seeks to facilitate the transfer of experience, adaptation of methods, and where possible, foster collaboration among different groups.

The topics of interest cover all aspects of ICT towards the socioeconomic development but not limited to the topics in the tracks below.

Track 1: Intelligent Systems & Data Science
Decision support systems
Autonomous multi-agent systems
Fuzzy logic systems
Machine learning and deep learning
Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML)
Data Science and Big Data analytics
Statistical learning algorithms, models and theories
Application of IoT and AI to solve societal problems in agriculture, healthcare, industry, and others

Track 2: Wireless Communications & Emerging Networking
Emerging networks, Network virtualization and SDN
AI in wireless networks and cognitive radios
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other autonomous Communication Systems
IoT and smart sensing in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4th IR) applications.
Satellite and space communication
Affordable broadband wireless networks for emerging economy
5G and beyond networks for the sustainable development goals
Future Internet systems and community networks
Green networks, smart grid and power-line communications

Track 3: Computing Systems
Software Development Methods and Techniques
Requirements Engineering
Software Architecture, Design, Testing and Quality Assurance
Software maintenance and evolution
Software Project Management
Virtualization and Containers
Embedded systems
Energy Harvesting, and Energy Management Systems
Circuits and HW Systems for Emerging Technologies

Track 4: Security and Privacy
Access control and security models
Cloud, Internet of Things, and embedded systems security
Internet, communication and network security
Forensics, hardware and biometric security
Software security and malware
Intrusion detection and prevention systems
Security and privacy policies and trust management
Data and AI systems security

Track 5: Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Speech recognition, speech synthesis
Dialogue and multilingual Interactive Systems
Narrative understanding and commonsense reasoning
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Multimodal and grounded language processing
Summarization and Information Extraction
Applications of NLP on web, social media, and computational social science
Machine learning in NLP

Track 6: Information systems and services
IS implementation, adoption and diffusion
Philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches in IS
Human computer interaction
eService, digital government and platforms
Innovative digital technologies in business, public & economic services including resilient infrastructures, climate change, pandemics, and other Challenges.


Paper Submission and Publication
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers including results, tables, figures and references (which have not submitted or published or are not under consideration elsewhere) in PDF format. The submitted papers should be 6 pages long including, tables, figures and references and additional pages will be charged, in English and using the Using IEEE A4;Two-Column Format ( IEEE Proceedings A4 Format Template), through the submission portal on Microsoft conference management toolkit
Note: If an author doesn’t have CMT account, you need to create an account first. Then, log in with the created account. Then, click on the “Submit” sign.
The submitted manuscript will be reviewed by at least three experts selected by the Technical Committee for their demonstrated knowledge of particular topics. Authors will be notified of the review results by email around notification date.
Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.