Rajendra Aneja lists some building blocks for seamless execution
“There is no magic in magic, it’s all in the details,” opined the master story teller, Walt Disney. As African countries ready to roll out the vaccines, this advice on the importance of detail, is relevant. Nations should now focus on the nuts and bolts of vaccinations.
The inoculations will require granular planning in scheduling, determining disseminating centres, communications to recipients, recruitment of adequate volunteers, safe storage and transportation of the vaccines, maintenance of records, monitoring side-effects, administering second jabs, etc. Ideally, all the information about every vaccination should be stored in computers, accessible to health authorities for follow-up.
“However, the models are only as good as the assumptions that they are based upon. They may not account for many things such as seasonality, details of vaccine rollout individual behaviour.
“Nor can they account for our values and culture for example that people have different tolerances of risk. There are always values in politics and these need to be explained and it needs to be clear how the government has made their decisions.”
Dr House, a reader in applied mathematics at the University of Manchester added: “It’s no good waving curves and graphs at people - if these only show covid cases and deaths. We cannot be clear that the precautionary principle of first do no harm applies, because we don’t know the costs of lockdown measures.
14 December 2020
Professor Darren Robinson appears on Data for Resilient Cities podcast
SSoA’s Darren Robinson has appeared in the podcast series ‘Data for Resilient Cities where he discusses urban sustainability, resilience, and liveability.
In the latest episode of the podcast Darren starts a conversation on urban sustainability, resilience, and liveability with Avanish Pendharkar, Executive Director of the Center for Urban Planning and Policy (CUPP) where he talks about the complexities of urban systems and their challenges. Darren and Avanish also discuss how cities need to build a culture towards data collection, management, and publication to plan for sustainability, while also focussing on a policy framework to openly allow the use of publicly available data for planning and economic development. They discuss examples of data collection approaches in the UK and in India, like RERA where regulatory approaches have helped crowdsource data. They go on to t
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