e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries: 4th International ICST Conference, AFRICOMM 2012, Yaounde, Cameroon, November 12-14, 2012, Revised Selected Papers

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International ICST Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, AFRICOMM 2012, held in Yaounde, Cameroon, in November 2012. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of information and communication infrastructures and are grouped in topical sections on: e-Infrastructure, e-Services, e-Society, e-Health, and e-Security. Front Matter....Pages - Towards an Africanised Expression of ICT....Pages 1-13 Testbed for Rural Area Networking – First Steps towards a Solution....Pages 14-23 SNS4D: An OnLine Social Network System for Developing Countries....Pages 24-33 RuKaCS: A Community Services and Proximity Networks Project Framework for Bridging Digital Divide in Rural Cameroon....Pages 34-44 Achievable Capacity Design for Irregular and Clustered High Performance Mesh Networks....Pages 45-54 VHF Spectrum Monitoring Using Meraka Cognitive Radio Platform....Pages 55-64 Open BTS, a GSM Experiment in Rural Zambia....Pages 65-73 Performance Evaluation of RSSI Based Distance Measurement for Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 74-83 Link Calibration in QoS-Aware Wireless Back-Haul Networks for Rural Areas....Pages 84-93 IPv4 to IPv6 Transition Strategies for Enterprise Networks in Developing Countries....Pages 94-104 SolarMesh - Deployment Aspects for Wireless Mesh Networks in Developing Countries....Pages 105-114 Analysis of Open Source Enterprise Service Buses toward Supporting Integration in Dynamic Service Oriented Environments....Pages 115-125 Emerginov: An Open PHP PaaS to Stimulate and Animate Local Co-innovation....Pages 126-132 Introducing NikaNOW: A Mobile Platform for Hyperlocal Media in South Africa....Pages 133-142 Analysis and Design of Mobile Payment Platform in African Context....Pages 143-152 A Mobile Commerce Solution for Sub-Saharan Countries Such as Cameroon....Pages 153-162 Leveraging the Cultural Model for Opportunistic Networking in Sub-Saharan Africa....Pages 163-173 Analysis of Mobile Phone e-Waste Management for Developing Countries: A Case of Uganda....Pages 174-183 Open Source in Africa: An Opportunity Wasted?....Pages 184-188 Social Accountability for Mozambique: An Experience Report from the Moamba District....Pages 189-198 Electronic Communication: Stay Connected....Pages 199-210 Modeling and Practise of Integral Development in Rural Zambia: Case Macha....Pages 211-220 Constraints for Information and Communications Technologies Implementation in Rural Zambia....Pages 221-227 ICT Training in Rural Zambia, the Case of LinkNet Information Technology Academy....Pages 228-238 Relevant Computing Curricula in Sub-Saharan Africa....Pages 239-248 Mobile Phone Technology Acceptance and Usability in the Delivery of Health Services among Health Surveillance Assistants in Rural Areas of Malawi....Pages 249-258 Implications of Integrating Information Systems in Healthcare at District Level in Malawi: A Case of DHIS and Drug LMIS....Pages 259-269 Eb@le-Santé: Networked Electronic Health Records in Academic Hospitals in RDC....Pages 270-278 A Model for Information Security Governance in Developing Countries....Pages 279-288 Cyber Security Education in Developing Countries: A South African Perspective....Pages 289-297 Intellectual Property (IP) Integration Approach for Data-Flow Parallel Embedded Systems....Pages 298-307 Wireless Community Network Services: Opportunities and Challenges for DCs: Case of Rural Cameroon....Pages 308-317 Implementation of a Function VoWiFi Communication on Android-x86....Pages 318-322 An Approach of Making Telephony in a Local Wireless Environment: Application to Bluetooth Technology....Pages 323-330 Back Matter....Pages -