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COVID19-Africa-Response: africarxiv.org/covid-19/

Resources, ideas and infographs around the COVID19 Pandemic and mitigation strategies in Africa

License: CC-BY 4.0: COVID-19 Africa Response Alliance

Collecting resources

Resources, ideas and guidelines around the COVID19 pandemic What works in other parts of the world might not work in Africa. Let us build a specific resource kit.

  • GoogleDoc: tinyurl.com/COVID19-Africa-Response
  • Spreadsheet: tinyurl.com/COVID19-Africa-country-respons
  • Github: github.com/AfricArxiv/COVID19-Africa-Response
  • Retweet: twitter.com/AfricArxiv/status/1240208295266304002

Visual Map: kumu.io/…/covid19-resources#global/africa

Cite as: Akligoh, Harry, Havemann, Jo, Restrepo, Martin, & Obanda, Johanssen. (2020). Mapping the COVID-19 global response: from grassroots to governments (Data set). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3732377

Getting things done #strongertogether

Help us to address our tasks listed as issues in this repo // feel free to add more

  • https://github.com/AfricArxiv/COVID19-Africa-Response/issues

  • collection of infographics on hygiene measures to avoid infection by designers and scientists

  • provide a platform where Research labs can volunteer to run PCR screenings on COVID19 DNA/RNA samples to investigate for mutants and derivates

  • makerspaces, coding communities and innovation hubs on the continent to design immediate response hardware and software

  • … (what else)

COVID-19 Strategies for Africa

Literature

Data Management

Science Literacy

Our partners from African Science Literacy Network and ScieComm Nigeria are developing and providing journalistically curated science-based information around COVID-19 on scicomnigeria.org/covid-19updates:

Essentials

  • Stay calm
  • wash your hands frequently
  • keep a physical distance to other people
  • check on friends and relatives, esp. elderly and vulnerable people
  • collect and share information on best practices
  • follow general as well as COVID19-specific hygiene guidance: afro.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus-covid-19

Online

We need to ensure that #internet providers can keep up and improve their services - #Connectivity is already affected. >> http://africa-internet.com Collaborate online e.g. coronavirustechhandbook.com/ Follow hashtag combinations around #Africa #coronavirus #COVID19 Mobilize resources and transfer knowledge collected online to offline Offline

Todos

Infographics

collection of infographics on hygiene measures to avoid infection provided by graphic designers and scientists

Research labs

  • provide a platform where Research labs can volunteer to run PCR screenings on COVID19 DNA/RNA samples to investigate for mutants and derivatives

Software & Code

  • makerspaces, coding communities and innovation hubs on the continent to design immediate response hardware and software

Translations

Translate all collected information from and to English/French / Arabic / Swahili / Yoruba / … infographs for illiterate ppl, those that speak local languages and kids

Survey (Google Form)

To collect information from scientists, makerspaces, coding communities Make that information immediately available to the public (Google Spreadsheet, open for comments)

Things to ask

  • Org name
  • Contact email
  • Twitter, facebook, ORCID, other social accounts
  • Skills
  • Comment section
  • ….

Q&A

Ask any question you might have Report on specific challenges you are experiencing or have observed or heard about

Credentials

Contributing individuals and organisations

  • AfricArXiv, africarxiv.org

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