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SUBMITTER: Arakpogun EO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7396131 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
World development 20200802
Several countries in Africa have either deployed or considering using digital contact-tracing (DCT) as part of their Covid-19 containment strategy, amidst calls for the use of technology to improve the efficiency of traditional contact-tracing. We discuss some of the complexities entailed in using DCT in Africa. Adopting a socio-technical perspective, we argue that if DCT design and deployment are not well thought out, it can lead to unintended consequences, particularly in a continent like Afri ...[more]