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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
  • …
  • …