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.
Childcare for supermarket employees
The city of Nice provides daycare in small groups for children of supermarket employees.
Government offers free webinars for a “safe home office”
The government of the Austrian province Lower Austria offers free and publicly accessible webinars on the topic of “Secure Home Office”. They inform citizens on how to protect themselves and their data.
Structuring a digital work day with others working from home
FNF MENA structures their day with digital check-ins at the beginning and end of each day and now they are inviting everyone to join in.
Providing hospitals and frontline medical staff with necessary equipment
To provide hospitals with missing equipment, an initiative crowdsources necessary materials such as masks and visors.
Using population maps to tackle disease outbreaks and plan public health campaigns
Artificial Intelligence can be used to create disease prevention maps. They provide information on where outbreaks may occur and the potential spread of disease.
Allocation of free university resources for Covid-19 testing
A platform helps to allocate free university resources to laboratories for corona testing.
Online support for treating the psychological effects of the crisis
To support citizens who experience a high stress level, the city council of Barakaldo announced the start of an online psychological support programme.
Using bluetooth to contain the spread of the coronavirus
To reduce the rate of infection and help people avoid infection, Bluetooth can be used to detect users when get close enough to infect each other.
Providing free taxi services for hospital workers
As many hospital workers in Paris work shifts of 15 hours and more, they are provided with a free cab service.
Financial support for local business vouchers
A municipality in Italy pays half of the cost for vouchers for local businesses that have been hit by the coronavirus crisis.
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.
Co-creation platform for Covid-19 challenges
A platform calls for challenges related to the Covid-19 outbreak and facilitates the collaboration of different stakeholders to find solutions.