This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Information and
Communication Technology for Development for Africa ICT4DA 2017 held in Bahir Dar Ethiopia
in September 2017. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected
from 72 submissions. The papers address the impact of ICT in fostering economic development in
Africa. In detail they cover the following topics: e-services natural language processing
intelligent systems mobile and wireless communication privacy and security.
