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
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
Help us to address our tasks listed as issues in this repo // feel free to add more
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https://github.com/AfricArxiv/COVID19-Africa-Response/issues
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collection of infographics on hygiene measures to avoid infection by designers and scientists
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provide a platform where Research labs can volunteer to run PCR screenings on COVID19 DNA/RNA samples to investigate for mutants and derivates
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makerspaces, coding communities and innovation hubs on the continent to design immediate response hardware and software
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… (what else)
- Harnessing the Open Science infrastructure for an efficient African response to COVID-19 (preprint) // Zenodo upload // community peer review: https://outbreaksci.prereview.org/10.5281/zenodo.3733767
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- Wikidata:WikiProject COVID-19: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19
- upload your dataset to AfricArXiv: https://info.africarxiv.org/submit/
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:
- 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
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
collection of infographics on hygiene measures to avoid infection provided by graphic 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 derivatives
- makerspaces, coding communities and innovation hubs on the continent to design immediate response hardware and software
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Translate all collected information from and to English/French / Arabic / Swahili / Yoruba / … infographs for illiterate ppl, those that speak local languages and kids
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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
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Ask any question you might have Report on specific challenges you are experiencing or have observed or heard about
Contributing individuals and organisations
- AfricArXiv, africarxiv.org
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