So just how many COVID-19 cases are there in Indonesia?

Ensuring there is a high rate of COVID testing is important to the management of the pandemic and for aligning policies to the context. But accurate and reliable collection of data is also essential. What obstacles does Indonesia face in collecting sufficient, accurate data about the COVID-19 situation in the country?

Dr Sherah Kurnia and Dr Rod Dilnutt at the International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Jan 2020. Source: Image courtesy Dr Sherah Kurnia.

Dr Sherah Kurnia is Associate Professor at the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne and a member of a team that investigated  the effectiveness of COVID-19 data collection in Indonesia  She explains the team’s findings to Sri Dean.

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Dr Sherah Kurnia and Dr Rod Dilnutt suggested that Indonesia should adopt enterprise architecture to improve the coordination of COVID data collection. Source: Image courtesy of Dr Sherah Kurnia.