Daily Monitor Wednesday January 13 2021 Global inter-connectedness: The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that we need each other. What happens in one part of the world has repercussions beyond the immediate borders. It also showed vividly the need for good governance and preparedness. Countries with sound systems and capacity quickly re-engineered themselves and put in place containment measures even though not 100 per cent effective. Wageningen University and Research in Netherlands and University of Free State in South Africa, for example, quickly put in responsive measures to reposition their universities to respond to education challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Others were not in position to do so or only responded slowly.