E-Infrastuctures and E-Services for Developing Countries: Second International ICST Conference, AFRICOM 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, November 25-26, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International ICST Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, AFRICOM 2010, held in Cape Town, South Africa, in November 2010. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected and cover a wide range of topics such as wireless network technologies, E-governance, as well as ICT for development and ICT business models and open-access. Front Matter....Pages - Connecting Mobile Phones via Carrier-Grade Meshed Wireless Back-Haul Networks....Pages 1-10 Leveraging SMS Infrastructure for Internet Access in Developing Countries: Scenarios, Architecture and Research Directions....Pages 11-21 A Structural Parameter Based Modification of Energy Conscious ESPAR Antenna System through Optimization for WLAN’s Dual-Band Operability....Pages 22-30 Continent-Based Comparative Study of Internet Attacks....Pages 31-40 Detecting Network Intrusions Using Hierarchical Temporal Memory....Pages 41-48 Global Survey on Culture Differences and Context in Using E-Government Systems: A Pilot Study....Pages 49-68 Improving Public Administrations via Law Modeling and BPR....Pages 69-78 Adaptation of Mobile Application to Improve Flow of Birth Information from the Community to the District Level....Pages 79-92 Utilization of ICTs in Multipurpose Community Telecentres in Rural Malawi....Pages 93-101 Egypt Local Government Websites Maturity: Current Status....Pages 102-112 Student Performance in Computer Studies in Secondary Schools in Malawi....Pages 113-121 Enabling Business Intelligence Functions over a Loosely Coupled Environment....Pages 122-131 Emerginov: How Free Software Can Boost Local Innovation, a Win-Win Deal between Operator and Local Innovation Partners....Pages 132-140 Back Matter....Pages -