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• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities

Additional publication opportunities:

• EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
• EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series

Urban Development and Smart Cities: What for Africa?

• Awareness and Risk management system for cities sustainable development
• Urban disaster risk resilience: Translating the local to global
• Sustainable household sanitation and waste management
• Smart cities and intelligent buildings
• Climate change and adaptation in cities and local areas
• Rapid urbanization: the good, the bad, and the unknown
• Land uses and land management in African cities
• ICT and Energy in African smart cities

Agriculture, Food Security, Water Resources and Climate Change:

• Water resources: evaluation et exploitation
• Water reuse in agriculture: what practices to cope with drought?
• The agricultural value chains: innovations and sustainability
• Food and nutrition security
• Foreign direct investment and food security in Africa
• Plant bio-technology for climate change incidence
• Climate change and New economic opportunities in Africa
• Environmental migration

Socio-Economic Development and Gender:

• Partnership government, local communities and private sector
• People-oriented/centered development
• Youth/women engagement, ICT, water/energy
• Enabling pathways or barriers to sustainable development
• Community driven development strategies
• Filling the gender gap in resource limited environment

Energy for Urban and Rural Areas

• Energy efficiency and energy access
• Sustainability, energy and buildings
• Sustainable building technologies
• Policy outlook on sustainability in buildings
• Building integrated green energy
• Towards rural power/smart grid

ICT as Enabler (for economic development, smart cities, energy, agriculture, etc.)

• ICT and decision making in the face of uncertainty
• ICT and best practices for sustainable development
• Innovative connectivity solutions
• Interaction between classical scientific solutions and locally developed process and methods
• Harnessing agriculture, land administration and public financial management for ICT

Societies living in underserved areas face multifactorial problems — energy, water, climate, food, health, education, transportation, social development, economic growth, etc. — that are not amenable to separate single-discipline investigation but require collaboration between many types of expertise. Today, there is a consensus that the solutions of the problems facing people in underserved areas lie at the intersections of traditional disciplines. This is the essence behind Interdisciplinary Solutions (InterSol); an international conference dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary researches that address people’s needs in underserved areas. It is intended (1) to encourage innovative interdisciplinary research, development and education that focus on solving problems in underserved areas, and (2) to create an international research and development community around “interdisciplinary solutions”.

The third edition of the conference (InterSol2019) will be held on February 14-15, 2019 in Cairo, Egypt. This year’s main topics include (but not limited): Gender and Socio-Economic Development; Urban Development and Smart Cities for Africa; Agriculture, Water Resources, Food Security and Climate Change; and ICT as enabler. A detailed list of the covered themes is available below. We invite unpublished contributions and innovations that address these issues via an interdisciplinary approach.

This event is organized by EAI.

EAI – European Alliance for Innovation is a non-profit organization and a professional community established in cooperation with the European Commission to empower the global research and innovation, and to promote cooperation between European and International ICT communities.

EAI’s vision is to foster excellence in research and innovation on the principles of transparency, objectivity, equality, and openness. Our guiding principle is community cooperation to create better research, provide fair recognition of excellence and transform best ideas into commercial value proposition.

EAI‘s mission is to create an environment that rewards excellence transparently, and builds recognition objectively regardless of age, economic status or country of origin, where no membership fees or closed door committees stand in the way of your research career.

Through these shared values, EAI leads the way toward advancing the world of research and innovation, empowering individuals and institutions for the good of society to fully benefit from the digital revolution.