Africa Blockchain Summit
Emerging with Blockchain in conjunction with Pan-African AI & Smart Systems Conference Dakar Senegal, November 3-6, 2022
Call for Participation
Submission Date: August 1, 2022
Notification date: September 15, 2022
Blockchain Summit
Blockchain, first created to enable cryptocurrency, has emerged as the next revolutionary technology with the potential to transform entire industries from banking and financial services to telecommunications and manufacturing, to name but a few. The rapid expansion of crypto markets and the corresponding values that they represent are also slowly challenging the mainstream perceptions of investment markets.
Blockchain technology potential goes far beyond cryptocurrencies. Blockchain offers public or private distributed ledgers to record an immutable timestamped public record that can be independently verified by any participant. Bitcoin and its peers have mostly remained on the fringes of finance and payments, yet some countries are actively considering granting crypto-assets legal tender status, and even making these a second (or potentially only) national currency.
The goal of this roundtable is to provide a forum for researchers, academicians, industry experts, and policymakers to discuss the potential impact of this emerging technology on Africa’s economy, development, and monetary policy. Possible contributions in the form of panel discussions, presentations, and tutorials are solicited and should include but are not limited to the following:
- Crypto-currency software engineering
- Survey of crypto-currency applications in Africa
- Smart contracts in private micro-financing, such as tontine
- Blockchain technologies in Web applications
- Ledger interchange formats and protocols
- Smart contracts and conditional execution contexts
- Blockchain applications in Identity systems, including privacy, security, and confidentiality
- Communication networks and protocols technologies to support Blockchain applications
- Cryptocurrency for unbanked communities–People with little to no access to a solid banking infrastructure can access various financial services for free.
- Cryptocurrencies features to fight hyperinflation in emerging economies and help people retain their capital while keeping it in a liquid or transferable form.
- Using cryptocurrency Blockchain as a mechanism to implement transparency and disclosures in digitized documents to deter corruption.
- Cryptocurrency for secure voting
All contributions to participate as a panelist or position papers presenter should be sent directly be submitted to the general co-chairs: