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Second International ICST Conference, AFRICOM 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, November 25-26, 2010, Revised Selected Papers</span></p><div class="abstract"><div class="shortened"><p>AFRICOMM 2010, the second conference of the series, is organized into three Tracks, two of them organized as Research Tracks and one as Policy & Governance Track. The Research Tracks will consist of presentations of research findings in defined themes proposed for the conference. Submitted papers w…</p></div><div class="full"><p>AFRICOMM 2010, the second conference of the series, is organized into three Tracks, two of them organized as Research Tracks and one as Policy & Governance Track. The Research Tracks will consist of presentations of research findings in defined themes proposed for the conference. Submitted papers will be double blind peer-reviewed scientific papers, which will be published by Springer in the LNICST series. Policy Track, on the other hand, will be based on panel discussions, which will be selected from 2-page extended abstracts.</p></div> <span class="expander more"><a class="trigger">more »</a></span></div><section class="editors"><strong>Editor(s): </strong><span class="editor">Radu Popescu-Zeletin (Fraunhofer FOKUS)</span>, <span class="editor">Idris Rai (Makerere University)</span>, <span class="editor">Karl Jonas (Fraunhofer Fokus)</span> and <span class="editor">Adolfo Villafiorita (FBK Center for Information Technology)</span></section><section class="publication-info"><dl class="metadata"><dt class="title">Publisher</dt> <dd class="value">Springer</dd><dt class="title">ISBN</dt> <dd class="value">978-3-642-23828-4</dd><dt class="title">Series</dt> <dd class="value">LNICST</dd></dl></section><section class="publication-info"><dl class="metadata"><dt class="title">Conference dates</dt> <dd class="value">25th–26th Nov 2010</dd><dt class="title">Location</dt> <dd class="value">Cape Town, South Africa</dd></dl></section><section class="publication-info"><dl class="metadata"><dt class="title"> Appeared in EUDL </dt><dd class="value">2012-05-28</dd> </dl></section><p class="copyright">Copyright © 2012–2024 ICST</p><section id="articles-search" class="search"><div class="metasearch"><select id="metadata-field" name="metadata"><option name="select">Select</option><option name="title">Title</option><option name="abstract">Abstract</option><option name="author_name">Author Names</option><option name="keywords">Keywords</option><option name="doi">DOI</option><option name="all">All</option></select></div><div class="field"><input id="search-field" name="q" placeholder="search terms here…" size="30" type="text" value=""><input type="submit" id="search-submit"><div class="summary"></div></div><div class="order">Ordered by <a href="/proceedings/AFRICOMM/2010?order_title=desc" class="filter current asc"><span>title</span><span class="icon"></span></a> or <a href="/proceedings/AFRICOMM/2010?order_year=asc" class="filter current desc"><span>year</span> <span class="icon"></span></a></div></section><section id="publications-results" class="search-results"><div class="pagination"><span class="description">Showing 1–10 of 13 results</span><div class="results-per-page">Page size: <span class="per-page-choice"><a class="current" href="/proceedings/AFRICOMM/2010?articles_per_page=10">10</a></span><span class="per-page-choice"><a class="" href="/proceedings/AFRICOMM/2010?articles_per_page=25">25</a></span><span class="per-page-choice"><a class="" href="/proceedings/AFRICOMM/2010?articles_per_page=50">50</a></span></div><div class="pages"><ul class="pages-list"><li class="page"><a href="/proceedings/AFRICOMM/2010?articles_page=1" class="current">1</a></li><li class="page"><a href="/proceedings/AFRICOMM/2010?articles_page=2" class="">2</a></li><li class="page"><a href="/proceedings/AFRICOMM/2010?articles_page=2">Next</a></li><li class="page"><a href="/proceedings/AFRICOMM/2010?articles_page=2">Last</a></li></ul></div></div><ul class="results-list"><li class="result-item article-light first"><div class="proceedings-link"><h3><a href="/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-23828-4_3">A Structural Parameter Based Modification of Energy Conscious ESPAR Antenna System through Optimization for WLAN’s Dual-Band Operability</a></h3></div><dl class="metadata"><dd class="value">Research Article in E-Infrastuctures and E-Services for Developing Countries. 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