- Senior lecturer/ Co-Director, University of the Free State
The purpose of social listening is to connect what is being heard to decisions about what needs to be communicated.
Misfluencers fuel the spread of misinformation by being a perceived as a trustworthy source of information.
Social Stress Indicator is invaluable for digital governance, crisis response, mental health monitoring, and platform design to track and respond to social stress.
AI’s potential needs to be explored through experimentation. But this works best if managed under controlled environments.
As a disease progresses, so too must the underlying data and reporting improve to manage the progression of the outbreak.
Epidemics do not require the total eradication of the disease to end.
The data concerning both the spread of the virus and the indirect consequences of the lockdown indicates that no similar action is justified moving forward.
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