Episode 12: Evelyn Lewis - How A Childhood Curiosity with Computers Led to the Creation of a Contact Tracing App to Help Fight Ebola and COVID-19
Evelyn Lewis is the CEO of SBTS (Sierra Business Technology Systems) Group Inc., a global technology firm that helps governments understand and coordinate attention to economic organizational, technological innovation, and integrated enterprise.
Evelyn talks about how his childhood curiosity with computers and technology led to the creation of the SBTS Group of companies to make an impact on people's lives, especially in Sierra Leone where he is from.
He chronicles how he started and grew his business and how he got into youth training and creating job opportunities for youth, not just in Sierra Leone but also in other countries on the African continent.
Some of his most important work was with using technology for contact tracing to help manage and defeat the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Sierra Leone between 2013 - 2016 that killed 11,323 people. The SBTS Group developed the Health Outbreak Manager (HOM) software which consists of an app and a comprehensive suite of tools that help collect and manage data for users for EVD responders and have been updated for use with COVID-19 responders.
To connect with Evelyn, you can find him on LinkedIn.