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A combination of insight and foresight regarding the public’s practical interaction with science has earned a pair of Nelson Mandela University professors two of the most prestigious academic awards in SA.

“It’s been a race against time,” Professor Darelle van Greunen from the Centre for Community Technologies said of the urgent assignment to develop an easy to use web-based booking solution that would allow health workers (at the moment) and the public (during further phases of the roll-out) in the Nelson Mandela Metro to access it from any device, including smartphones, tablets, laptops and PCs in order to book a date and time for their vaccination. The booking system was launched this w...

weekly newspaper. After DM168 spread the word about an app that allows healthcare workers to track, trace, follow up and monitor tuberculosis (TB) patients without having to go out into communities, the head of the Centre for Community Technologies at Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, Professor Darelle van Greunen, received some welcome news. Van Greunen said the app that is being rolled out on a small scale in Wells Estate in Port Elizabeth will also be rolled out in the Western Ca...