South Africa GovChat Launches: COVID-19 Prescreening

The Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Parks Tau, said, “We will walk South Africans through this user-friendly interface on all media platforms and open up a whole new world of the COVID-19 combat infrastructure.”

GovChat, the official South African citizen government engagement platform, in partnership with the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) today announces and introduces Unathi, a COVID-19 prescreening and early warning digital interface. This technology enables citizens to interact directly with Government in an official and trusted manner. South Africa GovChat, which offers a range of citizen government engagement features, was developed in line with Government’s district delivery model. As the lead department over the National Disaster Management Act, CoGTA is mandated to capacitate the various government departments with real-time insight and coordinate data across stakeholders. GovChat’s dashboard feeds will be permanently screened at the National Disaster Management nerve center to assist the department with planning, resource allocation and coordination of local, provincial and national delivery arms of state.

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