General Information

Conference Committee

• Salah Kabanda - University of Cape Town, South Africa
• John Effah - University of Ghana, Ghana
• Gamel Wiredu - Ghana institute of Management & Public Administration, Ghana
• Maureen Tanner - University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Irwin Brown - University of Cape Town, South Africa

Theme: Improving African Livelihoods with Digital Information & Technology

The 2018 (4th) edition of ACIST focuses on how digital information technology (DIT) can improve the livelihoods of African people. African livelihoods encompass sensitive issues such as health, education, incomes, environments, occupations, trades, access, business and government. These issues have physical, psychological, social, and financial dimensions that affect individuals, groups, communities, countries, and regions in Africa. DITs are increasingly becoming integral to and interdependent with the African society.

ACIST 2018 will explore such issues as to whether, how, why, when and where DITs contributes to improving the lives of people in the African society. One of the focal areas of discussions are what it takes to achieve a coordinated and sustained effort in the use of DITs to address grand challenges of improving the African Society. For instance, it is important to ask, if our purpose as information systems and technology researchers is to ensure better African lives, then what should individuals, groups, organizations, nations and regions do differently with DIT?

The recent wave of digital innovations in the domains of mobile IT platforms, applications, devices, and infrastructure holds considerable promise for a positive impact on livelihood improvement in Africa. Against the backdrop of problems such as social exclusion, underemployment, deprivation, poverty, poor hygiene, malnutrition, and poor housing, what role, for instance, can constant connectivity play towards livelihood improvement in Africa? What other technological solutions can be used to support and relieve people who are experiencing these problems? ACIST 2018 seeks to showcase and discuss research works that tackle these issues.

As we prepare for ACIST 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa, it is hoped that IST researchers in Africa and elsewhere will think creatively, broadly, and provocatively about Improving African Livelihoods with Digital Information & Technology from many different theoretical, philosophical and practical perspectives.

ACIST 2018 is calling for completed papers, research-in-progress papers or posters, position papers, panel discussion topics, and exhibition posters on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Digital Innovation
• IT and Development
• Sustainable (Green) Information Systems
• IT and Organisational Structuring
• Business Process Management
• Technology and Applications Convergence
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Big Data and Business Intelligence
• Cloud Computing
• Wireless Communications
• Internet and IS Development
• Social Networks and Digital Collaborations
• Information Systems Management
• Digital Society, Knowledge and Identity
• IT & IS Curriculum and Education
• Research Methods and Philosophy
• IT and Social Inclusion/Exclusion
• E-Government and E-Business Systems
• Public Sector IT Projects
• IT in the Oil and Gas Industry
• Information and Computer Security
• Decision Support Systems
• Human Behaviour and IT
• IT-Enabled Services

Paper submissions will be subjected to double-blind reviews by at least two Programme Committee members. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings with ISSN 2467-8988; and will be considered for further review and publication in the African Journal of Information Systems (www.ajisonline.com).

Conference Committee

Enquiries may be sent to any of the conference co-chairs.

Salah Kabanda
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Salah.Kabanda@uct.ac.za

John Effah
University of Ghana, Ghana
jeffah@ug.edu.gh

Gamel O. Wiredu
Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration, Ghana
gwiredu@gimpa.edu.gh

Maureen Tanner
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Maureen.Tanner@uct.ac.za

Irwin Brown
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Irwin.Brown@uct.ac.za