INTERSOL 2019 - 3rd EAI International Conference on Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas (INTERSOL2019)

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 We invite unpublished contributions and innovations that address these issues via an interdisciplinary approach.
Topics
We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not limited to:
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