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The International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions - ICTer2012 13th & 14th December 2012
MESSAGE FROM THE CONFERENCE CHAIR
The International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer) is the
successor to the International IT Conference IITC, the major IT Conference in Sri Lanka since 1998. It
is a forum for the sharing of knowledge through the presentation of research carried out on various
aspects of ICT in the region. This year particular effort was made to establish the conference web site
and to include all its past conference papers as well as to index them in Google Scholar. Publicity for
the conference was made through many conference promotion sites which led to more site access from
over 100 countries. Conference also attracted around 15 international submissions in addition around 60
local papers.
Due to the acceptance of a larger number of high quality papers two parallel sessions have been
organized. This year we have selected three international keynote presentations, seven invited talks, 19
full papers, 15 short papers and 12 poster papers. Due to non-availability of some authors to present
their papers final schedule consists of 34 author presentations in addition to the keynotes and invited
talks. The proceedings of ICTer2012 are published both printed proceedings and as well as in electronic
form and subsequent inclusion with IEEE Explore. The best research work presented in the conference
will be invited to be published in an expanded form in the International Journal on Advances in ICT for
Emerging Regions.
In addition to the main conference programme, there are also three high quality Workshops and
two Tutorials on topics of current interest internationally.
ICTer2012 being the prestigious international forum on ICT to be held in Sri Lanka, and will no
doubt contribute in taking the research presented to the global ICT research and innovation space. It is
also expected to form a firm foundation for future ICTer activity in the region, through both its annual
meetings as well as its more formal publication, the International Journal on Advances in ICT for
Emerging Regions.
Prof. Gihan Wikramanayake
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