The 6th Africa Regional Workshop of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST), an international organization of professionals working with information technology and data services to support research and teaching in collaboration with the East African School of Library and Information Science, Makerere University will be held at Imperial Resort Beach Hotel, Entebbe, Uganda from 4th to 6th November, 2026.  The workshop will be an event with in-person meetings in Entebbe, Uganda

Submitting Abstracts – DEADLINE: 28 February 2026

We welcome submissions for presentations, papers, workshops, and posters. The theme of this year’s Workshop is “Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Data-Driven Development for Africa.”

Submissions on the following topics will be prioritized:

  1. AI, Data Infrastructure, Security, and Cyber Resilience
  2. Data and Knowledge Management
  3. Data documentation, metadata standards, and harmonization across Africa
  4. Data ethics, governance, and regulatory frameworks in organisations
  5. Data Literacy, knowledge, skills development, and workforce capacity building in Africa
  6. Data rescue, digitization, and preservation of records and archives
  7. Data-driven Academics and Research Innovation for development
  8. Enhancing Technology and Data for Agriculture and Environmental Management
  9. Harnessing Smart Technologies for Discovery, Capturing, and Inclusive Access to Data
  10. Managing data for smart cities, digital health, digital business, and digital education initiative
  11. Partnership and Collaboration across government, academia, communities, and industry
  12. Re-imaging Data Management Principles, e.g, Collective Benefit, Authority Control, Responsibility and Ethics (CARE), and Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable (FAIR)

Notifications of acceptance/rejection of abstract – 31 March  2026

Submission of full papers – 30th June 2026

Notifications of acceptance/rejection of full paper – 31 July  2026

6th IASSIST Africa Regional Workshop 2026: Abstract Submission Form

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Questions about the submissions may be sent to the Program Chairs ( Dr. Robert Buwule, Prof. Peterson  Dewah, Dr. Adetoun Oyelude, and Dr. John Oredo) at program@iassistafrica.org