How to protect businesses and employees during the crisis. How to optimise working from home. Ideas, services and technology that make our tasks easier in these extreme circumstances.

Transforming ship containers to intensive care units
An international taskforce designed an intensive care unit inside a 20-foot shipping container that can be quickly deployed in cities around the world.

A Facebook messenger chatbot to combat Covid-19 misinformation
To better inform the world about Covid-19, the WHO has launched a Facebook Messenger chatbot to offer instant and accurate information about the disease.

Managing care services online
By using the technologies of the future and diagnosing the real needs of users, Good Support gives a new look at care and social services.

Corona Tech Handbook
A crowdsourced handbook collects detailed practical information on how to address the currend outbreak of COVID-19.

Furniture company helps to meet medical equipment shortage
IKEA joins the list of companies that branch out of their business to support governments in their fight against the spread of the coronavirus.

The Veterans Health Administration launches the Maker Challenge
To meet the needs of essential workers on the frontlines of the pandemic, Makers For Veterans (CAMVETS) set up a programme to create innovative solutions.
Listening to those working in medicine, nursing and care
A support line allows medical staff to talk about their problems and stress related issues with empathic listeners.
A platform for businesses to collaborate against Covid-19
A platform connects businesses providing solutions for Covid-19 with those who need help.

Using crowdfunding to provide a face mask for every citizen
The municipality of Viterbo collects donations to empower companies to reconvert their production lines to the production of face masks.
Using robots to disinfect hospitals
UVD robots can be used to disinfect contaminated hospital rooms.
Creating a transparent system of financing and providing assistance
An initiative set up the largest database of requests for medical facilities and retirement homes in Slovakia. Within one month of its founding, the initiative managed to provide protective equipment and devices worth 1.3 million EUR.

Covid-19 tech competition
A funding competition invites the best tech innovators to contribute solutions to problems posed by Covid-19.