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South Africa: Maths and Artificial Intelligence Can Help Us Decide When to Lift the Lockdown
Daily Maverick, 28 July 2020
Mathematical theories on how to manage decisions where the variables are unknown or only partially known may help us in re-opening our economy and easing lockdown restrictions. Read more »
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Rwanda: Rwandan Startup Using Artificial Intelligence to Scale Up COVID-19 Testing
New Times, 21 June 2020
As the world awaits medical breakthroughs to understand and curb the Covid-19 pandemic, bets are that solutions will come from developed markets. Read more »
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Nigeria: COVID-19 - It Firm, Kougar Solutions, Donates to FCT Administration
Premium Times, 21 May 2020
An IT security company, Kougar Solutions and Allied Services Limited has donated a thermal & artificial intelligence system to the Federal Capital Territory Administration to… Read more »
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South Africa: Is Artificial Intelligence Another Weapon in the War Against COVID-19?
Daily Maverick, 7 April 2020
As countries around the world scrabble for ways to curb the spread of the coronavirus, one South African academic believes that AI should be added to the global arsenal. Read more »
Can Artificial Intelligence Help Africa Fight Covid-19?
Rwanda and Nigeria are two African nations that have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to curb the Covid-19 pandemic. This comes after Tshilidzi Marwala of The Daily Maverick in South Africa wrote that mathematics and AI could be used to determine when the nation should lift its lockdown.
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Youth across Africa have been severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, including disruption in education, exacerbated by the digital divide (across urban-rural and gender ... Read more »
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Africa has the capacity to mass-produce vaccines against COVID-19 if they become available next year but the region will need to be more involved in their search, writes Jackie ... Read more »
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Covid-19 Connect, a WhatsApp service that provides users with relevant information to help make informed and effective decisions during the pandemic, was developed by Praekelt.org ... Read more »
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Covi-ID, an app designed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, has been developed in South Africa by Co-Pierre Georg, an associate professor at the University of Cape Town School ... Read more »
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Innovation, which has long characterized Africa, has become a central feature of the response to the SARS-CoV-2 (new coronavirus) crisis across the continent. Fashion designers in ... Read more »
