Coronavirus - Africa: Africa CDC Joins Forces with Co-Creation Hub to Use Smart Ways to Educate and Sensitize the Continent on COVID-19
The collaboration will focus on projects delivering vetted critical
information from Africa CDC to Africans in remote areas using innovative and culturally sensitive messaging
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, March 30, 2020/ -- Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is collaborating with the Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), the leading technology innovation centre in Africa, to launch a call, for
innovative communication projects on COVID-19 based on indigenous
African languages targeted at the semi-urban and rural population across Africa. The communication projects are expected to help counter
disbelief and misinformation, catalyse citizens actions and solidarity
as well as combat stigmatization.
The collaboration will focus on projects delivering vetted critical
information from Africa CDC to Africans in remote areas using innovative and culturally sensitive messaging.
This involves educating the public and ensuring fact-based information
reaches even remote locations through such approaches like comics,
animation, illustrations, infographics, interactive SMS, Mobile apps
etc.
The selected teams will be supported with grant funding of up to $5000
for research and design support. Proposed projects can be focused on one African country or multiple countries across the continent. Africa CDC Joins Forces with Co-Creation Hub to use Smart Ways to Educate and
Sensitize the Continent on COVID-19
Dr. Benjamin Djoudalbaye, Head of Policy, Health Diplomacy, and
Communication at the Africa CDC stated that the collaboration is to
“enhance efforts of the Africa CDC towards educating the public and
ensuring that the right information reaches even remote locations across the continent to avoid unnecessary panic and misinformation.”
With a track record of collaborating with key players to explore the
application of technology to solve Africa’s systemic problems in Public
Health, Education, Governance in the continent, CcHUB through its
internal research and development unit, CcHUB Design Lab, based in
Kigali, Rwanda, will collaborate with innovators to provide technical
support using innovative digital and non-digital methodologies to ensure the mass messaging on Coronavirus reaches the semi-urban and rural
population across Africa.
Bosun Tijani, CcHUB’s Co-founder and CEO, said “This is a critical time
where tech in Africa should be used in smart ways to ensure broader
citizen awareness and understanding of COVID-19 response strategies and
precautions”.
This collaboration is supported by the Joint African Union – German
Cooperation on Citizens Engagement and Innovative Data Use for Africa’s
Development programme implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). A Call for Projects- Solve for
Coronavirus (COVID-19) for creative teams working on a project or have
an idea, with the capability to build out the solution could be accessed through the link: bit.ly/solve-for-covid19.
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