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.