AN INVESTIGATION INTO VARIOUS STRATEGIES THE USE OF ICT/SOCIAL MEDIA CAN EFFECTIVELY CHECKMATE THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN ABIA STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (TECHNICAL), AROCHUKWU.
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Introduction: Coronavirus disease otherwise known as COVID-19 is known to infect humans and cause severe disease and fatalities. it is a global pandemic and has affected so many nations and their economies, societies and institutional sectors including educational sector. Protecting oneself and preventing rapid spread of the virus by being well informed about the transmission of the virus, adhering to the safety tips to stay safe and getting vaccinated is the best approach to fight against the virus. Aim: This research tries to explore some ICT/Social media tools in effectively curbing the spread of COVID-19 virus in Abia State College of Education (Technical), Arochukwu. Methodology: This research work adopted crowd sourcing approach for aggregating feedbacks on the effectiveness of curbing the spread of COVID-19 pandemic through the use of ICT/Social Media tools. Data mining technique such as FURIA classifier was applied to analyze and classify responses from crowd (staff and students) into effective or not effective using dataset of 200 instances in Weka toolkit version 3.9. The qualitative research approach was also adopted for collection of data from secondary sources, such as: online journals and articles. Rational Unified Process was used as system development methodology; Unified Modelling Language was used for the design of the proposed system. Tools: The system was developed using Android version 8.0 with other tools which include GPS/Network location tracker, Bluetooth technology for scanning and calculating users’ distances, Java and XML as programming language and MySQL cloud database for data synchronization between devices.
Result: This approach after being tested and evaluated showed that the system helped in monitoring social distance compliance, alert the violators and gives reports on the high rate of violations based on different locations, divulging information that could be used in creating awareness where there are high number of violations and giving useful information about various safety tips on how to stay safe. It also helped to mitigate the high rate of violations, that can even lead to high rate of exposure to COVID-19 virus, its spread and possible infection.
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