e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries

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13th EAI International Conference, AFRICOMM 2021, Zanzibar, Tanzania, December 1-3, 2021, Proceedings

Yahya H. Sheikh Idris A. Rai Abubakar D. Bakar(Editor)

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Published on 25. May 2022

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Intro
Preface
Organization
Contents
Main Conference Track
Utilization of Information and Communication Technology in Addressing Property Tax Collection Challenges: The Case of Tanzania
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 Methodology
3.1 Study Design
3.2 Sampling
3.3 Data Collection Methods
3.4 Data Analysis
4 Results and Discussion
5 Property Tax Enforcement Framework
6 Recommendations and Future Work
7 Conclusion
References
Preliminary Investigation of Mobile Banking Attacks in West Africa: Feedback from Orange Money Customers in Burkina Faso
1 Introduction
2 Security Attacks
2.1 Preliminary Study
2.2 Online Survey
2.3 Discussions
3 Best Practices in Security
3.1 Social Engineering
3.2 Software and Encryption Attacks
4 Related Work
5 Threat to Validity
6 Conclusion
References
On the Entropy of Written Afan Oromo
1 Introduction
2 System Model, Entropy Estimation and Source Encoding
2.1 Written Afan Oromo
2.2 Information Source Model
2.3 Source Encoding
2.4 Entropy and Source Coding for Discrete Memoryless Sources
2.5 Source Model for Block of Letters
3 Markov Chain for Discrete Sources
3.1 First-Order Markov Chain
3.2 Higher-Order Markov Chain
4 Source Coding for Discrete Information Source
4.1 Huffman Coding
4.2 Arithmetic Coding
5 Methodology
5.1 Corpora Collection and Formatting
5.2 Probability Extraction and Entropy Estimation
5.3 Source Encoding
6 Results and Discussion
7 Conclusion
References
Security Mental Models and Personal Security Practices of Internet Users in Africa
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
2.1 Usable Security
2.2 Human In/Out of-the-Loop Philosophies
2.3 User's Internet and Internet Security Mental Models
3 Methodology
3.1 Quantitative Study (Online Survey)
3.2 Qualitative Study
3.3 Data Analysis
4 Results
4.1 Online Survey Results
4.2 Qualitative Analysis
5 Discussion
6 Limitations
7 Conclusion and Future Work
References
A Portfolio of Digital Platforms and Services for Digital Health Interventions, A Case in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe
1 Introduction
2 Method
3 Digital Health in Zimbabwe
4 A Comprehensive Portfolio of Platforms and Services for Digital Health Interventions in a Zimbabwean Province
5 Discussion
6 Conclusions
References
Developing a Digital Information and Consultation Platform in Zimbabwe
1 Introduction
2 Method
3 Sequence of Events and Their Grounding in Theory
4 Context of Digital Health
5 Results
6 Discussion
6.1 Centring Zimbabwe
6.2 Community Engagement
6.3 Workforce Enhancement
6.4 Thought Leadership
6.5 Systems Integration
6.6 Outlook
7 Conclusion
References
Secure Land System Based on the Ethereum Blockchain: Benin Case Study
1 Introduction
2 Usefulness of Blockchain in Land Management
3 Related Work
4 Materials and Methods
4.1 Materials
4.2 Methods
5 Results and Discussion
5.1 Presentation of Results
5.2 Discussion
6 Concluding Remarks
References
Resource-Constrained Real-Time Network Traffic Classification Using One-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks
1 Introduction
2 Background
2.1 Quality of Service (QoS)
2.2 Community Networks
2.3 Support Vector Machine (SVM)
2.4 Multilayer Perceptron (MLP)
2.5 1D Convolutional Neural Networks (1D-CNN)
3 Related Work
3.1 Flow Classification
3.2 Packet Classification
4 Methodology
4.1 Preprocessing
4.2 Hardware Constraints Considered
4.3 Required Classification Throughput
4.4 Input Length
4.5 Evaluation Criteria
4.6 Architecture and Hyperparameter Selection
4.7 Experiment Procedure
5 Results and Discussion
5.1 SVM Accuracy and Prediction Rate
5.2 Model Accuracy Comparison
5.3 Model Prediction Rate Comparison
5.4 Maximum Accuracy Attainable by Input Length
5.5 Relationship Between Accuracy and Prediction Rate
5.6 Model Allocations by Hardware Constraints
6 Conclusions and Future Work
A Hardware Constraints
B Architectures and Hyperparameters Considered
B.1 MLP
B.2 1D-CNN
B.3 Other
C Notable Model Parameters
C.1 MLPs
C.2 1D-CNNs
References
Community Network Traffic Classification Using Two-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks
1 Introduction
2 Background
2.1 Community Networks
2.2 Multi-layer Perceptrons
2.3 Convolutional Neural Networks
2.4 Support Vector Machines
3 Related Work
4 Design and Implementation
4.1 Overview of Preprocessing Pipeline
4.2 Dataset
4.3 Labelling
4.4 Extracting the IP Payload
4.5 Sampling Balanced Classes
5 Experimental Methodology
5.1 Evaluation Metrics
5.2 Architectures
5.3 Experiment Design
5.4 Software and Hardware Environment
6 Results and Discussion
6.1 Accuracy Results
6.2 Prediction Speed Results
6.3 The Effect of Reducing Input Size
7 Conclusions and Future Work
References
Trading 4.0: An Online Peer-to-Peer Money Lending Platform
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 Methodology
3.1 System Architecture
3.2 The Auction System
3.3 Blockchain and Security
4 Illustrative Case Study
5 Application Development
5.1 Requirements
5.2 Data Model Design
5.3 Interface Design
5.4 Prototype
6 Testing
6.1 Test Design
6.2 Test Execution
7 Conclusion
References
Enhancing the Priority for the Maintenance Activities of the Hospitals' Mechanical Equipment Using the Fuzzy Expert System
1 Introduction
2 Review of Decision Making and Fuzzy Logic Application in Predictive Maintenance
3 Methodology for Maintenance Activities Priority Expert System
4 Fuzzy Expert System for the Predictive Maintenance Activities Priority
4.1 Defining the Expert System Requirements
4.2 Fuzzy Expert System
4.3 Case Study: Customized Fuzzy Expert System
5 Results Discussion
6 Conclusion and Future Work
References
Analysis of Channel Uncertaintypg on OFDM/FBMC DVB-T2 Simulations
1 Introduction
2 Related Works
2.1 FBMC Waveform in DVB-T2
2.2 DVB-T2 Field Trial and Measurement
3 DVB-T2 and Multicarrier Modulations
3.1 DVB-T2 System Overview
3.2 FBMC
4 Channel Measurement and Modeling Methods
4.1 Channel Measurement Method
4.2 Channel Modeling Method
4.3 Error Measurement Simulation Methodology
4.4 System and Parameters
5 Simulation Results
5.1 BER Evolution in Function of SNR
5.2 MER and EVM Evolution in Function of SNR
5.3 Discussion
6 Conclusion
References
A Conceptual Framework for Exploring the Factors Influencing Information Security Policy Compliance in Emerging Economies
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Methodology
4 Findings
4.1 Individual Factors Influencing ISP Compliance
4.2 Organizational Factors Influencing ISP Compliance
4.3 Environmental Factors
5 Discussion
6 Conclusion
References
Effective Contribution of Internet of Things (IoT) in Smart Agriculture: State of Art
1 Introduction
2 State of the Art
2.1 Development of Intelligent Systems for Smart Farms
2.2 Smart Farm Management
2.3 Robotics for Smart Farms
2.4 Prediction in Smart Farms
2.5 Security in Smart Farms
2.6 New Challenges of Smart Farms
3 Limits of IoT in Smart Farms
4 Discussion
5 Conclusion
References
Barriers and Facilitators of eHealth Adoption Among Healthcare Providers in Uganda - A Quantitative Study
1 Introduction
2 Methods and Materials
2.1 Study Setting, Design and Sampling
2.2 Study Design
2.3 Sampling and Data Collection
2.4 Analysis
2.5 Ethical Approval
3 Results
4 Discussion
4.1 Demographic Factors
4.2 Individual Factors
4.3 Organizational Factors
4.4 Technological Factors
5 Conclusion and Recommendations
5.1 Limitation of the Study
References
Tools for Analytics and Cognition for Crowd Journalism Application
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Crowd Journalism in the Context of TAC ARTICONF Framework
4 TAC Microservices for Crowd Journalism
4.1 Geospatial
4.2 Temporal
4.3 Visualization
4.4 Guided Analytic
4.5 Return on Investment
4.6 Return on Collaboration
5 TAC Implementation for Crowd Journalism
5.1 Visualisation Results
6 Conclusion and Future Directions
References
Extension of the Hybrid Method for Efficient Imputation of Records with Several Missing Attributes
1 Introduction
2 Review of Related Literature
2.1 Missingness Mechanism
2.2 Discretization
2.3 Imputation Methods Based on Partitioning
3 Presentation of Our Method
4 Results
5 Discussion
6 Conclusion
References
Causality of COVID-19 on EMF Radiation in Campus Area of University of Novi Sad
1 Introduction
2 The EMF RATEL Monitoring
2.1 The EMF RATEL Concept
2.2 Continuous Wideband Approach for EMF Monitoring
3 Spatial Distribution of EMF Sources in UNS Campus
4 Long-Term EMF Monitoring in UNS Campus
4.1 COVID-19 Presence
4.2 The Second COVID-19 Wave in UNS Campus
4.3 Statistical Analysis of EMF Radiation in UNS Campus
5 Conclusion
References
Environment 4.0: An IoT-Based Pollution Monitoring Model
1 Introduction
2 The Pollution Based Environment 4.0 Model
2.1 System Architecture
3 Performance Evaluation
3.1 Data from Static Collectors
3.2 Data from Mobile Collectors
3.3 Simulation of the LoRaWAN-Lubumbashi Network
3.4 The User Interface
4 Conclusion
References
Evaluating Performance of Content Cache Placement in a Wireless Community Network
1 Introduction
2 Background and Related Work
2.1 Mobile Edge Computing
2.2 Content Catching
3 Methodology
3.1 Network Measurements
3.2 Network and Cache Modelling
3.3 Experiments
4 Performance Results
4.1 Latency
4.2 Throughput
4.3 Video Performance
4.4 Buffering
4.5 Video Quality
4.6 Video Play Time
5 Discussion
6 Conclusion
References
A Digital Forensic Readiness Cybercrime Semantic Trigger Process
1 Introduction
2 Background
3 Previous Work
4 The Proposed Digital Forensic Readiness Cybercrime Semantic Trigger Process
4.1 High-Level View of Digital Forensic Readiness Cybercrime Semantic Trigger Process
4.2 The Detailed Proposed Digital Forensic Readiness Cybercrime Semantic Trigger Process
5 Discussion and Evaluation
6 Conclusion
References
Quantifying the Shift in Network Usage Upon Bandwidth Upgrade
1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Research Motivation
1.3 Problem Statement
1.4 Aims and Objectives
1.5 Research Contributions
2 Related Work
3 Research Methodology
3.1 Assumption Development Centre
3.2 Network Architecture
3.3 Deep Packet Inspection
4 Traffic Classification
4.1 Data Collection
4.2 Network Utilization
4.3 Internet Applications
4.4 LAN Traffic
5 Discussion
6 Future Work
7 Conclusion
References
CMFR-CMQ: Congestion Management and Control Message Quenching Based on Flow Setup Requests in SDN-WISE
1 Introduction
2 Related Works
3 Motivations
4 Proposed Approach: CMFR-CMQ
4.1 Parameters and Variables
4.2 Data Packet Management Process with CMFR-CMQ
5 Analytical Evaluations of the Proposed Solution
6 Conclusion
References
Review of Markov Chain and Its Applications in Telecommunication Systems
1 Background
2 Review of Probability Theory
2.1 Law of Large Numbers for Markov Chain
2.2 Chain's Rule
3 Markov Chain for Discrete Sources
3.1 First-Order Markov Chain
3.2 Additional Properties of Markov Chain
3.3 Computing Transition Probabilities from Data
3.4 Higher-Order Markov Chain
4 Hidden Markov Models
5 Applications of Markov Chain
5.1 Markov Chain for Natural Language
5.2 Markov Chain for Automatic Text Generation
5.3 Spectrum Occupancy Prediction for Cognitive Radio
5.4 Channel Modeling for Wireless Communication
5.5 Mobility Prediction in Cellular Networks
5.6 Markov Chain for Network Accessibility and Retainability Prediction
5.7 Network Services and Maintenance Optimization
6 Conclusion
References
Determining SDN Stability by the Analysis of Variance Technique
1 Introduction
2 Related Works
2.1 Routing Algorithms
2.2 Congestion Control Mechanisms
3 Analysis of Variance Technique (ANOVA)
4 Implementation
5 Simulation Results
5.1 Performance from a Single Controller
5.2 Performance of a Double Controller
6 Conclusion and Future Works
References
Mkulima Platform: An Inclusive Business Platform Ecosystem that Integrates African Small-Scale Farmers into Agricultural Value Chain
1 Introduction
2 Platform Organisations and Platform Business Models
2.1 Platform Organisations
2.2 Business Model for Platform-Based Organisations
2.3 Platform Canvas
2.4 Role of Blockchain in Digital Platforms
3 Material and Methods
3.1 Bibliometric Analysis
3.2 Empirical Study of Farmers' Mobile Applications
3.3 The Mkulima Platform Designs
4 Discussion
5 Conclusion and Further Work
References
Automated Recognition of Tree Species by Laser Scanning from 3D Geometric Texture of Tree Barks: Case of the Wadi Cherrat Arboretum
1 Introduction
2 Methodology
2.1 Tools and Technologies
2.2 Pre-processing and Processing of Lidar Data
2.3 Construction of the Image Database
3 Design and Implementation of the Platform
3.1 Functional Architecture of the Solution
3.2 Platform Presentation
4 Conclusion
References
The Effectiveness of Game-Based Learning Application Integrated with Computational Thinking Concept for Improving Student's Problem-Solving Skills
1 Introduction
2 Computational Thinking Skills in the 21st Century Learning
3 Game-Based Learning and Computational Thinking
4 Problem Solving Skills
5 Methodology
5.1 Procedure
5.2 Instrument and Data Analysis
6 Findings of the Experimental Study
7 Discussion and Conclusion
References
Spatial Analysis of COVID 19 in KSA Related to Air Pollution Factor
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Methodology
3.1 Data Collection
3.2 Proposed Methodology
3.3 Statistical Analysis
3.4 Spatial Analysis
4 Results and Discussion
5 Conclusion
References
The Significance of Augmented Reality Based Magazine Book for Historical Places of Bangladesh: Case Study
1 Introduction
2 Background
2.1 Augmented Reality
2.2 Mobile Augmented Reality
2.3 Tourism Sector in Bangladesh
2.4 Vuforia Augmented Reality Library
2.5 Unity (Game Engine)
3 Methodology
3.1 The Flowchart of the System
3.2 Development Methodology
4 Design of Magazine Book
4.1 Implementation of the System
4.2 Capturing Video
4.3 Tracking
4.4 Rendering
4.5 Evaluation
5 Conclusion
5.1 Limitation of the Study
5.2 Future Work
5.3 Summary
References
Innovation and Technology in Online Education: A Bibliometric Analysis
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 Methodology
4 Results
4.1 Document and Source Types
4.2 Source Type
4.3 Year of Publications - Evolution of Published Studies
4.4 Languages of Documents
4.5 Subject Area
4.6 Most Active Source Titles
4.7 Keywords Analysis
4.8 Geographical Distribution of Publications
4.9 Most Influential Institutions
4.10 Citation Analysis
5 Discussion
6 Conclusion
References
EAI International Workshop on Digital Learning and Teaching in time of Pandemic
Use of Digital Technologies for Learning: Reflections on Students' Experiences at the University of Dar es Salaam
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 Methodology
3.1 Study Approach and Design
3.2 Study Population and Sample Size
3.3 Data Collection and Ethical Procedure
3.4 Data Analysis
4 Study Findings
4.1 Types of Digital Technologies Students Used
4.2 Students' Possessions of Digital Devices
4.3 Students' Use of Digital Technologies
4.4 Students' Challenges
5 Discussion
6 Conclusion and Recommendations
References
Towards Provision of Online Peer Assisted Learning: Understanding the Contemporary Participation Trends
1 Background
2 Literature Review
2.1 ICT in Education
2.2 eLearning Platforms
2.3 Learner Support
2.4 Learning Support in Traditional Classroom
2.5 Learner Support in eLearning Platform
3 Problem
4 Objective Statement
5 Methodology
5.1 Study Area
5.2 Data Extraction
5.3 Data Analysis Tools
5.4 Ethical Consideration
6 Findings and Discussion
6.1 Number of Enrolled Student
6.2 Participation Trends
6.3 Inactive Trends
6.4 Instructors Online Presence
7 Conclusion and Future Work
References
Blended Learning in Refugee Education: An Interim Report on the Foundations for All Project in Kampala and Kiryandongo, Uganda
1 Introduction
2 Literature Review
3 Foundations for All Programme
3.1 Learning Design, Curriculum, and Platform
4 Pedagogy and Our Perspectives on Blended Learning
4.1 Psychosocial Support Is Vital
4.2 Setting Clear Expectations
4.3 Keep Content Relevant: The Promise and Peril of OER
4.4 Prioritising Student-Centred Needs and Approaches
4.5 Blended Learning and Accounting for Uneven Connectivity and Capacity
4.6 Provide Mentorship, Explain University Study, and Provide Practical Advocacy
5 Conclusions and Recommendations
References
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