Joint conference with Makerere 2014

The 1st International Conference on the Use of Mobile Information and Communications Technology in Africa (UMICTA 2014)

STIAS Conference Centre, Stellenbosch, South Africa: 9-11 December 2014

Final programme – NEW

Chairs and Technical Programme Committee

Call for papers – closed

This conference forms part of an ongoing collaboration effort between the department of E&E Engineering (through the MTN Mobile Intelligence Lab and MIH Media Lab) at Stellenbosch University, and the College of Computing and Information Sciences (through the AI lab) at Makerere University.

Below is list of the labs and departments involved, and the industry partners that will take part:

Labs and departments

• Electrical and Electronic Engineering department at Stellenbosch http://ee.sun.ac.za
• MTN Mobile Intelligence Lab at E&E Engineering at Stellenbosch University http://mtn.sun.ac.za
• MIH Media Lab at E&E Engineering Stellenbosch University http://ml.sun.ac.za
• Makerere University’s College of Computing and Information Sciences http://cis.mak.ac.ug/new/
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab at Makerere University http://cit.mak.ac.ug/cs/aigroup/
• Computer Science department at Stellenbosch University http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/
• Civil Engineering department at Stellenbosch University http://www.civeng.sun.ac.za/

 Industry partners

• MTN (Gauteng, Kampala, and global)
• Trinity Telecoms (Bellville, national)
• Geomed/Diacoustic Medical Devices (Stellenbosch, global)
• MiX Telematics (Stellenbosch, and global)
• tomtom (Gauteng and global)
• Eskom (National SA)
• ITS-SA (National SA)