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General Chairman's message

Dr Collins Yeboah-Afari
Director-General
Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT
(AITI-KACE), Accra, Ghana

The focus of the ITU Kaleidoscope 2022 (K-2022) academic conference is on how technical standards can
help boost quality of experience and interoperability in extended realities, ensuring that the new immersive
experiences benefit humanity at large.

In a world where digital transformation continues to expand, immersive technologies that merge physical and
virtual worlds are becoming more popular for their potential to improve our quality of life, explore new social
and cultural dimensions, and unlock new business opportunities. The promise of the metaverse, a term that
recently gained attention, is to allow an even greater overlap of our digital and physical lives. Despite
remarkable technological advances, current XR applications are a largely individual and local experience. To
deliver a widespread adoption of XR type of services and applications and achieve the vision of a metaverse,
communication networks have a key role to play.

K-2022 is held from 7 to 9 December at the National Communications Authority, Accra, Ghana, with the
support of the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT, which I lead as Director-General.

The conference programme includes nine original academic papers retained from a total of 14 submissions,
after a double-blind peer-review process. The video demonstration track, which was introduced in
Kaleidoscope two years ago, features one demo.
The authors of the best papers presented at the conference will share a prize fund of CH 6 000. In addition,
young authors of up to 30 years of age presenting accepted papers will receive Young Author Recognition
certificates.
I would like to thank the Technical Programme Committee (TPC) Chair, Mostafa Hashem Sherif, and all
reviewers, whether members of the TPC or anonymous reviewers, for assisting the Steering Committee (SC)
in making the selection; the members of the SC that were essential also in preparing four keynote sessions and
in inviting one paper dealing with the conference’s theme, and the video demonstration track. My special
thanks also go to the Host Committee members, Fred Yeboah and Yaw Okraku-Yirenkyi (AITI-KACE),
Kwame Baah-Acheamfuor (Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation, Accra, Ghana) that also helped
organise the local University Exhibit, and to all local staff who supported the logistics and the local
organization of the conference. Special mention must be made of the Honourable Minister for Communications
& Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful and the Director-General of the National Communications Authority,
Joe Anokye. Their commitment and valuable support to the successful execution of the conference is deeply
appreciated.

The K-2022 conference proceedings (as well as those of the previous conferences) can be downloaded free of
charge from http://itu-kaleidoscope.org.
As customary with the Kaleidoscope conferences, per agreement with the IEEE, all papers accepted and
presented at the conference will be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. In addition, selected papers
will be considered for publication in a special-feature section of the IEEE Communications Standards
Magazine.

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