Tracks

Building computer systems in developing nations includes challenges unknown to IT teams in developed countries. The challenges we face include:

  • Power outages and fluctuations
  • Internet outages and lower bandwidth
  • Difficulty of finding, training, and retaining quality resources
  • Needing to support many languages (frequently requiring non-standard fonts)
  • Significant requirements mismatch with existing Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) systems.

Tracks :

  • Pure Academic (not directly applicable to practitioners)
  • Practical Research (of direct interest to practitioners)
  • Database, Application Server
  • Development tools, Security, Performance
  • Case studies, Longitudinal studies
  • Project management/Architecture