Author:Sweijd, Neville; Zaitchik, BFDate:Jun 2021The COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the great historical events of the modern era, presenting a generational challenge to the world. Questions about the role of weather on SARS-CoV-2 transmission led to the gathering of scientists at an ...Read more
Author:Suliman, Ridhwaan; Mtsweni, Jabu SDate:Jun 2022The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has wreaked havoc globally, with over half a billion people infected and millions of lives lost. The pandemic has also interrupted every aspect of our lives, with most governments imposing various interventions and ...Read more
Author:Botha, Johannes G; Botha-Badenhorst, Danielle P; Leenen, LDate:Mar 2023Blockchain and cryptocurrency adoption has increased significantly since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. This adoption rate has overtaken the Internet adoption rate in the 90s and early 2000s, but as a result, the instances of crypto scams ...Read more
Author:Isong, B; Vhahangwele, T; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Jun 2023Client-server-based healthcare systems are unable to manipulate a high data volume, prone to a single failure point, limited scalability, and data integrity. Particularly, several measures introduced to help curb the spread of Covid-19 were ...Read morecbnd
Author:Le Roux, Alize; Cooper, Antony K; Ludick, Chantel J; Arnold, Kathryn A; Mans, Gerbrand GDate:Jun 2021This chapter presents the "COVID-19 Vulnerability Dashboard" for South Africa, developed by the CSIR for the National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC). It maps vulnerability to COVID-19 for the whole of South Africa, down to the level of the ...Read more
Author:Veerasamy, NamoshaDate:Feb 2021The outbreak of the novel corona virus or Covid-19 has sparked a wave of changes. Social-distancing and remote working meant that increasingly employees and individuals were reliant on Information Communication Technologies (ICT) to connect ...Read more
Author:Marais, Laurette; Pretorius, LDate:Feb 2021AwezaMed Covid-19 is a multilingual speech-to-speech translation application for screening patients for Covid-19. It enables Englishspeaking health care providers (HCPs) to conduct screenings by asking questions to patients in all other ...Read more
Author:Oelofse, Suzanna HHDate:Jul 2020This presentation focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on food waste globally and in South Africa. In South Africa, effects of food wastes resulted in the increase of inefficiencies in the movement of food produce, as well as citrus exports to ...Read more
Author:Ndiaye, M; Oyewobi, SS; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Hancke, GP; Kurien, AM; Djouani, KDate:Oct 2020The novel coronavirus (COVID-19), declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global pandemic, has brought with it changes to the general way of life. Major sectors of the world industry and economy have been affected and the Internet ...Read more
Author:Mthethwa, Siyabonga; Nthatheni, Ronewa G; Maremi, Keneilwe J; Thulare, TumisoDate:Dec 2023Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, many ICT initiatives were implemented in rural schools across the country to improve teaching and learning. This paper discusses the various factors that contributed to the failure to sustain ICT initiatives. ...Read more
Author:Reddy, T; Shkedy, Z; Janse van Rensburg, C; Mwambi, H; Zuma, K; Manda, S; Debba, PraveshDate:Jan 2021The rising burden of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa has motivated the application of modeling strategies to predict the COVID-19 cases and deaths. Reliable and accurate short and long-term forecasts of COVID-19 cases and deaths, ...Read more
Author:Mathibe, MJ; Muchenje, T; Masonta, Moshe TDate:Dec 2022The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic changed how people and businesses interact. Its impact severely impacted the global economy. As the governments of different countries imposed heavy lockdown regulations to curb the spread of the virus, an ...Read more
Author:Cooper, Antony K; Katumba, S; Coetzee, SDate:Oct 2020Proper addresses provide people with a social status: a sense of identity and being recognised as a proper citizen. They are needed for goods and service delivery, disaster relief, voting or just visiting friends. Good quality addresses are ...Read more
Author:Mutanga, Shingirirai S; Ngungu, M; Tshililo, FP; Kaggwa, MDate:Feb 2021Background: Many countries in the world are still struggling to control COVID-19 pandemic. As of April 28, 2020, South Africa reported the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Sub- Sahara Africa. The country took aggressive steps to control ...Read more
Author:Dlamini, Sifiso B; Turpin, Marita; Herselman, Martha EDate:May 2022The global spread of corona virus has had a significant impact on the basic education systems across the world. Nation states and various government departments had to invent means for remote schooling particularly to ensure continuation of ...Read more