E-Infrastructures and E-Services on Developing Countries: First International ICST Conference, AFRICOM 2009, Maputo, Mozambique, December 3-4, 2009, Proceedings ... and Telecommunications Engineering)

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International ICST Conference, AFRICOM 2009, held in Maputo, Mozambique, in December 2009. The conference aimed at bringing together international researchers, public officers, policy makers and practitioners in ICT to discuss issues and trends, recent research, innovation advances and on-the-field experiences related to e-Government, e-Governance, e-Infrastructure, and e-Business, with a focus on developing countries. It is in fact widely accepted that ICT Infrastructure and e-services are key drivers for development, well-being, and improved quality of life. 3642127002......Page 1 Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 38......Page 2 E-Infrastructures and E-Services on Developing Countries......Page 3 Preface......Page 5 Organization......Page 7 Table of Contents......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 Related Work......Page 13 Argumentative Serious Games......Page 15 Educational and COTS Serious Games......Page 16 Serious Game Features......Page 17 Use of Serious Games in Formal Educational Settings......Page 18 Conclusion and Future Work......Page 19 References......Page 20 Introduction......Page 22 Overall Design of Hadeda......Page 23 Internet Website......Page 24 Java Midlet......Page 25 Educational Issues......Page 26 Indigenous Voices......Page 27 Pilots......Page 28 References......Page 29 Introduction......Page 31 Procedure......Page 32 Classification Framework......Page 33 Results of Classification......Page 35 Summary and Conclusions......Page 37 References......Page 38 Introduction......Page 43 Network Description......Page 44 Performance Conclusions......Page 46 Challenges......Page 48 Conclusions......Page 49 References......Page 50 Introduction......Page 51 e-Justice and e-Government......Page 52 e-Justice......Page 53 ICT Implementations towards e-Government......Page 54 ICT Implementations towards e-Justice......Page 55 SWOT Analysis......Page 56 The e-Justice Solution......Page 57 Proposed Framework of Implementing e-Justice......Page 58 Conclusion......Page 59 References......Page 60 Introduction......Page 61 Challenges of ICT-Supported PA......Page 62 Framework for Supporting PA......Page 63 Intermediate Representation of Model Elements......Page 64 System Components......Page 65 Case Study......Page 66 Conclusion and Future Work......Page 68 References......Page 69 Location......Page 71 Local Technical Environment......Page 72 Project Goals......Page 73 Application Selection......Page 74 Application Development......Page 75 User Created Content......Page 77 Lessons Learned......Page 78 Limited Internet......Page 79 References......Page 80 Introduction......Page 81 Background on the South African Electoral System......Page 82 Electoral System Characteristics......Page 83 Punch Card Voting Systems......Page 84 Internet Voting System......Page 85 Electronic Voting Characteristics......Page 86 References......Page 87 Introduction......Page 89 Materials and Methods......Page 90 The Poor WLAN......Page 91 Home-Made Cantenna......Page 92 Low-Cost Antenna Mast......Page 94 Network Implementation......Page 95 References......Page 96 Introduction......Page 97 Chronology......Page 99 Technology Description......Page 100 Methodology......Page 101 Results......Page 102 Conclusions and Final Remarks......Page 104 References......Page 105 Introduction......Page 106 Conceptual Background......Page 107 Current Use of Mobile Phones......Page 108 Challenges Being Faced......Page 109 Influence of Use Context (Installed Base) on Mobile Phone Use......Page 111 Application-Centric Opportunities and Challenges: Paradoxes of Mobile Phone Use......Page 112 References......Page 114 Introduction......Page 116 Challenges in Implementation of GIS......Page 117 Methodology......Page 118 The Drug LMIS......Page 119 The Proposed GIS......Page 120 Opportunities and Challenges on Standards and Data Integration......Page 122 Opportunities and Challenges on Organisation......Page 123 Opportunities and Challenges on Technology......Page 125 References......Page 126 Motivation and Concept......Page 127 Vision and Challenges......Page 128 Example......Page 130 Relevant Work......Page 131 To Develop a Novel Adaptive Modulation and Coding Scheme to Optimize Energy Consumption......Page 132 To Develop a Network Monitoring System and Cognitive Self-configuration and Self-management Mechanisms to Cope with the Unreliability of the Environment of Emerging Regions......Page 133 First Steps towards a Solution......Page 134 Conclusions......Page 135 References......Page 136 The first edition of a conference is a significant organizational and scientific gamble. In some cases, these challenges are rewarded by results well above the initial expec- tions. AFRICOMM 2009, the First International ICST Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, was clearly one of such cases. The conference aimed at bringing together international researchers, public of- cers, policy makers and practitioners in ICT to discuss issues and trends, recent research, innovation advances, and on-the-field experiences related to e-Government, e-Governance, e-Infrastructure, and e-Business, with a focus on developing countries. It is in fact widely accepted that ICT Infrastructure and (e-•)services are key drivers for development, well-being, and improved quality of life. This was also highlighted by Kofi Annan, former UN General Secretary, in 2002: “While ICT cannot address all of [Africa's] problems, they can do much to place Africa on a firmer industrial footing... and strengthen the continent's human resources, with training that leads to sustainable livelihoods. ” AFRICOMM 2009 was organized in three tracks: two of them organized as Research Tracks, on Information and Communication Infrastructures and on e- Services for Developing Countries, and one Policy and Governance Track. Contri- tions to the first two tracks were selected by peer-review, while the policies session involved key stakeholders in the areas of ICT, development, and policy making who submitted position papers. Participation and selection of papers for the tracks was quite good. Adolfo Villafiorita, Regis Saint-paul, Alessandro Zorer (eds.). International Conference Proceedings. Includes Bibliographical References And Author Index.