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.
Identifying and solving the most pressing legal challenges after the pandemic
The FT Innovative Lawyers Global Legal Hackathon was launched to identify and create new products and services that address the most pressing legal challenges post-Covid-19.
A tracking project to obtain, organise and publish high-quality data
A team of more than 100 volunteer data-grabbers, journalists, scientists, visualisation specialists, designers, project managers, and many others help fill public health data gaps.
A voucher system that helps local entrepreneurs
To help small local businesses to survive the coronavirus crisis, this platform enables them sell gift vouchers to consumers.
Automatically opening and closing doors in public transport
To reduce the risk of infection, passengers no longer have to touch the door openers of metros, trams, and buses.
Activating the tech community to solve Covid-19-related challenges
Bringing together tech communities and doctors, nurses and all operators involved, an Italian initiative aims to collect a selection of resources, technologies, intelligent machines and robots to tackle the effects of Covid-19.
Web tracker checks inventories of big stores
As people are stockpiling essential goods during the coronacrisis, leaving supermarket shelve empty, two students from the University of Texas have invented a web tracker that checks inventories of stores.
COVID-19 Worldwide online investment conference
An online conference aims to accelerate innovations to fight the coronavirus and to prevent it from hurting societies in the future.
Designing new ventilators in only a few days to fight the pandemic
To tackle the short supply of medical equipment, businesses are stepping in to help governments.
Contactless food delivery
To reduce the risk of infection, a food delivery company defines strict rules for restaurants and delivery staff.
A Covid-19 resource guide for government leaders
To aid governments and decision makers in their response efforts to Covid-19, Government Technology provides a comprehensive list of resources.
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.
Open-source medical supplies
A Facebook group set up by the OSMS Medical Team shares promising open-source designs for key supplies during the Covid-19 pandemic.