E-Participation against COVID-19: Case of KawalCOVID-19.id

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic is the massive COVID-19 virus spread around the world. Indonesia’s government official website of COVID-19 at covid19.go.id shows there are 205 countries, 900,306 positive cases, and 45,693 people around the world who died because of COVID-19. Additionally, there are 1986 people confirmed positive COVID-19, 134 people get well, and 181 people died in Indonesia. This data is taken from the website when this article is written. The data seems very dynamic in the next periods. Therefore, this pandemic is an extraordinary phenomenon and has an impact globally. When this paper is written, the epidemic is still happening. Different countries have various strategies and actions against this COVID-19. There is limited research to capture e-Participation related to COVID-19. This paper aims to describe the role of technology against COVID-19 in Indonesia. Hopefully, this paper contributes a lesson learned of kawalcovid19.id in Indonesia case, and this could be employed for similar cases in other countries. This study has identified four main components in a model of e-Participation against COVID-19 as follows: team, technologies, COVID-19, and people. The e-Participation technologies are tools for participants to supply and verify information, educate people, and people to interact, give comments and feedback to each other.

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