Le Centre des Opérations de Réponse aux Urgences Sanitaires (CORUS)

This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of UN Member States against the COVID-19 pandemic along with other digital government initiatives and provide a preliminary analysis of their main features. These cases are shared for exchange of information so that Member States can learn from each other and possibly create new partnerships.

Partnership: UNDP, China, European Union, ECOWAS ...
Response budget to COVID 19 = 177,900,426,041 CFA francs
e-Government: Telework, video conferences, hackatons for innovative solutions,
technologies (Proprietary and free software): Jitsi, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, AI, Facebook, ...)

Country

Burkina Faso

Institution

Prime Minister, Ministry in charge of health, Ministry in charge of information, Ministry in charge of the digital economy Ministry in charge of trade, Municipalities, The Center for Operations in Response to Health Emergencies (CORUS), the traditional chiefdom , the association of traditional healers, the private sector, economic operators ...