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08 April 2020
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Story Prof Francois Vreÿ, and Prof Hussein Solomon
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The international response to the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a health security threat stimulated an international response that commenced with drastic, but localised actions in China, but responses rapidly manifested in more extreme measures in the rest of the world. Amidst international efforts imposing extraordinary national and international movement restrictions and a rush to find a medical cure, two questions arise. First, how does COVID-19 as a health security threat feature within the global security debate and second, how to explain the harsh responses that one observes.
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World Wide Web discussed at UFS
2006-09-08
The eighth annual congress on World Wide Web applications was attended by about 200 delegates from countries across the world on the Main Campus of the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein. The congress was presented by the UFS and the Central University of Technology. Topics like e-learning, e-business, e-governance and e-community were discussed. A direct broadcast of the keynote address, delivered by Mr Stephen Downes from the National Research Council in Canada, was done by means of a Skypecast broadcast.
From the left: Prof Teuns Verschoor (Vice-Rector: Academic Operations at the UFS), Mr Herbert Thomas (head of E-learning at the UFS) and Mr Downes.
Photo: Leonie Bolleurs