Call for Papers and conference annoucement

The 8TH West Africa Information and Communications Technologies Conference
and Exhibition - AITEC WEST AFRICA 2004

Intensive knowledge-sharing platform for Results

WHO: AITEC GHANA, Ministry of Communications and Technology and Leaders in
West African ICT industry will host The 8th West Africa ICT conference and
Exhibition to facilitate a knowledge and information sharing platform on the
future of ICT in West Africa and its developmental impact.

WHAT: A two- day conference
WHEN: 1-2 June, 2004

WHERE: Accra International Conference Center, Accra-Ghana

Call for Papers

Individuals and organizations are invited to submit proposals for Conference
and Workshop Presentations at AITEC WEST AFRICA 2004. The theme for AITEC
2004 is:

"BUILDING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AND CREATING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ICT"

Presentations will be selected on the basis of their educational value.
Commercial product or service promotion will not be permitted in the main
conference programme. Companies can book presentations in the Enterprise
Solutions Showcase for this purpose.

KEY CONFERENCE SESSIONS

1. ICT's Infrastructure Policy and Action Plans
2. Business Process Outsourcing - BPO
3. ICT Strategic solutions and implementation
4. Interconnectivity - Challenges and Solutions
5. Inter-department relationships and influencing board decision-making
6. Corps de Spirit -Training and coaching end users in your organisation

TRAINING WORKSHOP

1. Leadership, management and entrepreneurship.
2. Mechanism for successful Intranet deployment - Case study
3. Security - Focus on Spam and viruses
4. Implementing Bar coding System
5. Information and Knowledge Management.

CONCURRENT EVENTS

World Summit on Information Society - WSIS Workshop
2nd National ICT's forum
1st National ICT's Award Gala Night
ICT workshop for Journalist

Submission Guidelines:
Please email paper abstracts of not more than 400 words by 28th March 2004.
They should include: the session title, proposed presentation, presentation
title, author's name, institution, address, telephone, e- mail and URL.

Abstracts should be e-mailed to Program Chair ( Gershon Adzadi, PhD) at
[email protected] [2] indicating the author's last name in the title of
the message.

The Organising Committee will evaluate the abstracts. The Conference
Co-odinating Office will communicate the results of the evaluation by 26th
April 2004.

Languages:
Abstracts and papers may be written in any of the AITEC WEST AFRICA 2004
official languages: English and French.

DATES TO REMEMBER

29 March 2004: Deadline for receipt of abstracts.
25 April 2004: Communication to authors regarding the approval of the
proposed submissions.
2 May 2004: Deadline for the submission of papers.
June 1 - 2 2004: conference dates

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION CONTACT
Kwaku Baffour-Ansah
AITEC GHANA
Accra-Ghana
[email protected] [3]