{"id":9812,"date":"2021-09-20T21:17:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T01:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?p=9812"},"modified":"2021-09-20T21:17:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T01:17:38","slug":"the-future-fix-tech-lessons-covid-taught-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2021\/09\/20\/the-future-fix-tech-lessons-covid-taught-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Fix: Tech lessons COVID taught us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spacing<\/em>\u00a0and Evergreen proudly present\u00a0The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada<\/strong>, a special podcast series.<\/p>\n

THIS EPISODE: Tech Lessons COVID Taught Us<\/h3>\n

Throughout the pandemic, we’ve seen people use technology and data in creative ways to help combat COVID-19. Even everyday people found ways to connect people to information about the disease, and even vaccinations.<\/p>\n

In this episode, we begin by talking to Angelina Zhu and Deanna Hembruff, two volunteers for Vaccine Hunters Canada<\/a>, about how they became involved in a national movement to help people find vaccine appointments:<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody had that sort of sense that this was going to be a great community tool to get word spreading and get people vaccinated, especially with a few gaps that existed in delivering the vaccination services to people who needed them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Listen to the podcast for more about Vaccine Hunters Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n

And Dr. Tarun Katapally<\/a>, professor at the University of Regina’s Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, talks about how he and a team were able to work with Indigenous people in Saskatchewan to provide an app-based platform to curb the spread in smaller communities. It’s called CO-Away:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at upstream, preventative healthcare, and downstream, emergency healthcare, we are a very reactive system. So we wanted to completely upend this. Use of technology and our digital platforms could potentially support and facilitate self-governance in remote Indigenous communities.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Listen to the podcast for more about CO-Away.<\/em><\/p>\n