This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International EAI Conference on
Emerging Technologies for Developing Countries AFRICATEK 2017 held in Marrakech Morocco in
March 2017. The 15 full papers 5 short papers 2 invited papers and one poster paper were
selected from 41 submissions. The papers are organized thematically in tracks starting with
wireless sensor networks (WSNs) vehicular area networks (VANs) and mobile networks IoT and
cloud computing big data data analytics and knowledge management processing big data over
diverse clouds Web services and software engineering security.
