Another UIST Successful Conference, EAI AFRICOMM

Another UIST Successful Conference, EAI AFRICOMM

On December 1st, 2021, Associate Professor Atanas Hristov presented a paper at the 13th EAI International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries EAI AFRICOMM in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The paper “Tools for Analytics and Cognition for Crowd Journalism Application” by N. Paunkoska Dimoska, A. Hristov, A. Karadimce, N. Marina, M. Sefidanoski is a result of the work on the ARTICONF project.At the opening ceremony of the conference, Assoc. Prof. Hristov met the guest of honour, Hon. Simai Mohammed Said, Minister of Education and Vocational Training of Tanzania. During the three-day conference, Assoc. Prof. Hristov had a productive meeting with Dr. Abubakar Diwani Bakari Ag., Dean of the School of Computing Communication and Media Studies of the State University of Zanzibar-SUZA. They discussed possibilities for future collaboration between UIST and SUZA. In the near future, a Memorandum of Cooperation will be signed between the two institutions which will enrich the collaboration on different academic levels and provide possibilities for future mobility and research.