An Investigation Into the Impacts of ICT in the Compacting of COVID-19: A Namibian Context

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate into the impact of a National COVID-19 Health contact tracing and monitoring system for Namibia. The study used qualitative methods as are search strategy. Qualitative data was collected through zoom meeting and a Google form link was distributed to the participants. The findings of the study revealed that a total of 18 participants responded to the semi-structured questions of which 38.9% represents male while female 61.1%. The age group between 18-25 response rate were 22.2%, age group between 26-35 response rate were 55.6%, age group between 36-45 response rate were 16.7% and the age group between 46 and above response rate was 10% represented in green colour to represent participants who fall in the age group between 46 and above. Therefore, the present study will investigate into the impact of a National COVID-19 health contact tracing and monitoring system and proposed a system which will allow every public member who visits an enclosed public place by capturing their demographic information as well as the date and time the facility was visited. The system replaces the paper-based method of recording the information of people visiting public places with an entrance that allows the coming in and out of people. The proposed system will also allow for real-time monitoring of temperature changes of individuals.