ICT technologies and more particularly novel networking, computing and service infrastructures are drastically changing our society in all its dimensions. These advances have not only an impact on the way people are working but also on the way they are interacting, learning, educating, playing and so on. How these technologies do respond to the societal needs and how they should evolve to respond to the future needs of the digital society are crucial aspects to discuss. After the successful organization of the 1st ADVANCE workshop in 2012 in Canoa Quebrada (Brazil) with the support of IFCE Aracati, the 2nd edition held in the city of Morro de Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 2013 with the support of IFCE, the 3rd edition was held in Miami (USA) in 2014 with the support of IFU, the 4th edition was held in Recife (Brazil) in 2015 with the support of UFPE, the 5th edition was held in the city of Evry Val d'Essonne (France) in 2017 with the support of UEVE/Paris Saclay, the 6th edition of the workshop was held in the beautiful city of Santiago de Chile (Chile) with the support of the Universidad De Chile (UC), the 7th edition was held n Cape Verde Islands with the support of the Universidade de Cabo Verde and finally this 8th edition will be held in the city of Cancun (Mexico) for the first time with the support of the Universidad del Caribe and the Universidade Autonoma De Yucatan.

The focus of this workshop is to sustain the important efforts of the worldwide scientific community, practitioners, researchers, engineers from both academia and industry to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on latest theoretical and technological advances in ICT to solve societal challenges for developed and under developing countries. The workshop aims to develop the link between scientists from academia and industry worldwide to fade the digital divide between countries and organisation allowing all of them to access to the latest knowledge and collaborate together.

The technical program of ADVANCE 2020 will be organized in several tracks addressing specific topics in ICT. Each session will include a keynote talks on latest advances in ICT, refereed paper presentations of on-going research activities as well as discussion sessions.

Accepted papers will be published in the Advance electronic proceedings with an official ISBN number. Published papers will be also indexed in the HAL Open Archive with an official DOI (Digital Object Identifier).