The use of ICT in African societies may enable development as many job opportunities are offered. It is vital for Africans to take advantage of these opportunities offered by technologies to foster their development. The ICT4AD is a platform that brings together researchers, practitioners and decision makers to address African development issues.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of ICT for development, including, but not limited to:
1. Indigenous Theorizing in the African Context
- Indigenous theory
- Indigenous model
- Critical Indigenous theory
- Local and indigenous knowledge
2. Cultural Issues of ICT in Africa
- African Digital Entrepreneurship
- Digital and Socio-Cultural Identity in Africa
- Knowledge Management and Knowledge Sharing in Africa
- Regulation aspects in Digital Transformation in Africa
3. Social Issues of ICT in Africa
- Digital Economy in Africa
- Socio-Cultural Issues and impacts in ICT adoption in Africa
- Impacts of ICT adoption in Africa
- Critical Realism and ICT4D in Africa
- Social Media in Organizations in Africa
- Political Aspects in ICT adoption in Africa
4. ICT for Digital Transformation
- E Waste in Africa
- ICT driven Millennium & Sustainable Development Goals Implementation in Africa
- Big Data issues in African context
- Sociological aspects of ICT Adoption in Africa
- Commerce & E-Government in Africa
- Ethical and Legal issues in ICT
- Digital Platform Development and Application
5- ICT for Education (ICT4E)
- M-learning in Africa
- E-learning in Africa
- Social Media driven Learning in Africa
- AI and generative AI in teaching and learning
- ICT and applied linguistics
- Migration of education system
- Philosophy of ICT in Africa
- The Role of ICT in the teaching and learning
- The Impact of ICT in the training of African Youths
6. Endogeneity and endogenous theorizing in African context
- Requirement engineering
- Software cost estimation in software engineering
- Software project management
- Software validation
- Sotware maintenance