The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has engulfed the world, leading to a variety of measures such as lockdown to stop the spread of the highly infectious virus. In Rwanda, after the Ministry of health confirmed the first Covid-19 patient on 14th March 2020, the government imposed a lockdown, encouraged hand washing with soap, social distancing among other measures to curb its spread. Today lockdown has been eased with government establishing regulations to govern people’s behavior and conduct in public spaces. The government has instructed the registration of people frequenting public spaces for easy of contact tracing.
The inefficiencies of pen and paper registration systems such as faulty or incomplete contacts pose potential challenges for contact tracing and also complicates data management. Technology/digital tools should be promoted to play a role in overcoming these challenges for contact tracers. Technology /digital tools for contact tracing that have integrated features that access people’s identification cards, telephone numbers, passport numbers provide smart solutions can be deployed to make the work of contact tracers easy.
This digital solutions have been branded “technology immunization against COVID19” and believed to provide contact tracing remedies to help identify some people who may be asymptomatic to COVID 19 thus limiting their potential threat as sources of transmission of the virus.
Ikaze Software is among made in Rwanda solutions that can help provide “technology immunization against COVID 19”.
This webinar is organized to promote a public discourse on usage of “technology immunization” approaches against COVID 19. The discussions of panelists and participants to the webinar will be guided by the theme “harnessing technology in the fight against COVID 19 and digital contact tracing”.
