Background

Activity 3.1 and 3.2 involved engaging end-user organisations to the project, carrying out market research, interviewing decision-making organizations and presenting a demo of the dashboard.

Approach

In the introduction, we mentioned the existing COVID-19 dashboards both in the Netherlands and South Africa. We approached all the owners and partners to participate in the stakeholder engagement.

The stakeholders

Interviews were held with South African and Dutch stakeholders between December 2021 and March 2022.

Outcome

The main outcomes from the interviews for use in a dashboard have been listed below:

Key questions and future perspectives beyond COVID-19

A key question from Researchers was “how do we build a dashboard which is more responsive to the situation as it changes?” Machine-learning aspects would be useful.