IEEE SEiGS 2025:
Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South

Co-located with ICSE 2025, Ottawa, Canada

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seigs2025

The Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South (SEiGS) is a forum for researchers, innovators, and leading professionals to discuss the current state and future of software engineering in low-resource countries. SEiGS 2025 is organized to increase the participation of researchers from the Global South in the international Software Engineering community.

The event provides a platform for exchanging ideas on:

  • Academic research in Software Engineering (any topic fitting the ICSE list of topics),
  • The role of software engineering in the socio-economic development in the Global South, as well as future directions for software engineering research and education,
  • Creating networks with the global Software Engineering community and sharing exciting results with the community.

Sponsorship for Attending

For a limited number of papers, sponsorship for traveling to and registration for ICSE will be available.

Submission Guidelines and Evaluation

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

  • Full technical papers, limited to 8 pages, describing technical research results or industrial experience.

  • Short papers (posters), limited to 4 pages, describing preliminary results of work-in-progress research.

All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed by members of the SEiGS Program Committee. Submissions must be original and not previously published or currently under review elsewhere. They will be evaluated based on scientific quality, relevance to the Global South and the global Software Engineering community, significance, and quality of presentation.

The page limit includes all text, figures, tables, and references. All submissions must represent unpublished original work and not be under review elsewhere. Papers will be judged based on their clarity, relevance, originality, and applicability in practice.

Formatting and Submission Links

All submissions must be in English and formatted according to the ICSE 2025 Format and Submission Guidelines:

All submissions must conform to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTeX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option).

Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seigs2025

List of Topics

We are seeking high quality papers from researchers, professionals, and innovators on but not limited to the following topics:

  • Applications in

    • Financial Services
    • Agriculture
    • Sustainable Cities
    • Healthcare
    • Education
    • Transportation
    • Environment and Climate Change
    • Energy (e.g., smart grids)
    • Conflict and Crisis Management

  • Software Engineering

    The same scope as the main ICSE call-for-paper (all tracks of the main conference).

  • Community and Outreach

    • Building Research Networks
    • Software Innovations and Startups
    • Growing the IT-Industry
    • Setting up IT-Outsourcing
    • National Policies for Growing the IT-Industry

Program Committee (to be extended)

  • Ibrahim Adeyanju (Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria)
  • Yirsaw Ayalew (University of Botswana, Botswana)
  • Joseph K Balikuddembe (Makerere University, Uganda)
  • Djamel E. Khelladi (IRISA, Rennes, France)
  • Foutse Khomh (DGIGL, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)
  • Tegawendé F. Bissyandé (SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
  • Joyce Nakatumba (Makerere University, Uganda)
  • Serge Stinckwich (IRD, France)
  • Chitsutha Soomlek (Khon Kaen University, Thailand)
  • Agung Dewandaru (ITB, Bandung, Indonesia)
  • Chanon Dechsupa (Khon Kaen University, Thailand)
  • Luong Vuong Nguyen (FPT University, Vietnam)

Organizing Committee

  • Michel R.V. Chaudron (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
  • Engineer Bainomugisha (Makerere University, Uganda)

Publication

Accepted papers will be published in the electronic ICSE 2025 Proceedings in the IEEE Digital Library. Authors of accepted papers are required to register for the symposium and attend the symposium in order to have the paper included in the proceedings. The official publication date of the symposium proceedings is the date the proceedings are made available by IEEE.

Venue

The symposium will be co-located with ICSE 2025 to be held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada