Through the rise of this worldwide pandemic, countries have all varied in their response to Covid-19 . Through periods of lockdown and social isolation, jobs have been lost and people's lives have been hugely impacted, especially those who live paycheque to paycheque. Through all the efforts, citizen’s of the western cape have expressed that they still feel like there is not enough information to make responsible decisions about their activities. Despite the Western Cape’s best efforts to prepare for the inevitable infection flair up as lockdown eases. Western Cape citizen’s do not feel adequately prepared. If those demand socially fortune are struggling with access to relevant and real-time data, those underprivileged and less fortunate are less likely to be able to access information.
This lead to the decision to mobilise those we can reach and enable and empower them to make a difference to those who can't.
All for one, one for all!
The team faced challenges with source data in relation to this problem statement. Through hours of reassessing human activities and factors , we realised that empirical evidence is not widely shared. This gap in data allowed for us to focus in on capturing data that would complement that which is shared more broadly.
The team came to the conclusion that we would aggregate the WHO data source, as well as the the population density data of the Western Cape province, observed with NASA’s Worldview.
https://projects.invisionapp.com/share/5RXI87ZGZPD#/screens
WHO website https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus#tab=tab_1
Western Cape Government Website https://coronavirus.westerncape.gov.za/covid-19-dashboard