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This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Development for Africa, ICT4DA 2017, held in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, in September 2017.
The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers address the impact of ICT in fostering economic development in Africa. In detail they cover the following topics: e-services, natural language processing, intelligent systems, mobile and wireless communication, privacy and security.

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Is Addis Ababa Wi-Fi Ready?.- A finite-State morphological analyzer for Wolaytta.- Malaria Detection and Classification Using Machine Learning Algorithms.- Intelligent Transport System in Ethiopia: Status and the Way Forward.- Survey on Indoor Positioning Techniques and Systems.- Comparative Study of the Performances of Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) Reduction Techniques for Orthogonal.- Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Signals.- A Distributed Multi-hop Clustering Algorithm for Infrastructure-less Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks.- Radar Human Gait Signal Analysis Using Short Time Fourier Transform.- Classification of Mammograms Using Convolutional Neural Network Based Feature Extraction.- Exploring the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) for identifying Customer Location in M-Commerce Adoption in Developing Countries.- Developing knowledge Based Recommender System for Tourist Attraction area selection in Ethiopia: A Case Based Reasoning Approach.- A corpus for Amharic-English Speech Translation: The Case of Tourism Domain.- Experimenting Statistical Machine Translation for Ethiopic Semitic Languages : The Case of Amharic-Tigrigna.- Synchronized Video and Motion Capture Dataset and Quantitative Evaluation of Vision Based Skeleton Tracking Methods for Robotic Action Imitation.- Ethiopian Public Universities´ Web Site Usability.- Comparative Analysis of Moving Object Detection Algorithms.- Multiple Antenna (MA) for Cognitive Radio Based Wireless Mesh Networks (CRWMNs): Spectrum Sensing (SS).- The Design and the Use of Knowledge Management System as a Boundary Object.- Autonomous Flyer Delivery Robot.- Minimal Dependency Translation: a Framework for Computer-Assisted Translation for Under-Resourced Languages.- Massive MIMO for 5G Cellular Networks: Potential Benefits and Challenges.- Mathematical modeling and dynamic simulation of gantry robot using bond graph.- Web Usage Characterization for System Performance Improvement.- Critical Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators for e-Government Projects- Towards Untethered Public Services: the Case of Ethiopia.- Intelligent License Plate Recognition.- Comparison of Moving Object Segmentation Techniques ICT4DA Workshops.- Towards Group Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process.- Overview of Spectrum Sharing Models: A path towards 5G spectrum toolboxes.- Towards Affordable Broadband Communication: A Quantitative Assessment of TV White Space in Tanzania.

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