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class="breadcrumbs"> <a href="index.html">Home</a> &rsaquo;  </div> <article> <div class='markup' id='home'><h1 style="color: blue;"> Proceedings</h1> <h1 style="border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 3rem; line-height: 1.2; font-family: Georgia, "New Century Schoolbook", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: 0.02em; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; hyphens: auto; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries</h1> <h2 style="border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.4; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> 5th International Conference, AFRICOMM 2013, Blantyre, Malawi, November 25-27, 2013, Revised Selected Papers</h2> <p style="border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Editors: <strong>Bissyandé</strong>, Tegawendé F., <strong>van Stam</strong>, Gertjan (Eds.)</p> <p> <a data-rawhref="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319083674" href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319083674&sa=D&ust=1586432604876000&usg=AFQjCNHE_IYflVuRk9UKB169PJCP4gSIgQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(26, 115, 232); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;" target="_blank">https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319083674</a></p><h1>Fifth International Conference on e‐Infrastructure and e‐Services for Developing Countries</h1><h3><strong>DEADLINES EXTENSION:</strong></h3><p>Following numerous requests from potential authors to Africomm, submissions will be accepted for two more weeks until July 14. Abstract submission will remain open until the paper submission. However we urge potential authors to submit their abstract by July 7 to help the Program Committee prepare review assignments. </p><h3>Scope of the IEEE Africomm Conference 2013:</h3><p>Deploying efficient and effective infrastructures and solutions when limited resources are available is a challenging task and a key-enabler for the diffusion of ICT in developing countries. 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