| ECTEL's statement on COVID-19 - 04/05/2020 |
| Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority (ECTEL) |
| International and Regional Organizations | International |
| ECTEL has been working with the National Telecommunications Regulatory Commissions (NTRCs) in utilising the Universal Service Funds to provide subsidized provide subsidized broadband Internet access and digital devices to students and other vulnerable members of society; ECTEL will endeavour to advance the promulgation of the newly developed Electronic Communications Bill and its suite of Regulati (...) |
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| Niger launches a chatbot on Whatsapp to answer COVID-19 queries - 04/05/2020 |
| UNICEF |
| International and Regional Organizations | Africa | Niger (Republic of the) |
| Thanks to a collaboration between Facebook Inc., the Ministry of Public Health, the National Agency for the Information Society (ANSI) and UNICEF, Niger officially launched today a “chatbot” on the WhatsApp social network, to provide users accurate and timely information on the situation of COVID-19 in Niger and answer any COVID-19 queries. |
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| MINTEL reinforces the national strategy of Digital Education - 03/05/2020 |
| MINTEL |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Ecuador |
| In the framework of the health emergency that the country is going through, the Ministry of Telecommunications and the Information Society (MINTEL) reinforces the collaboration with the Ministry of Education (MinEduc), to strengthen the Open Education Strategy. |
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| E-Education Data Pack for Students and Instructors - 03/05/2020 |
| Nepal Telecom |
| TELECOM/ICT Operators and Service Providers | Asia & Pacific | Nepal (Federal Democratic Republic of) |
| Nepal Telecom, the national telecommunication service provider of Nepal, has initiated the e-Shiksha Package with the objective to help people conduct online classes of schools and universities during the lockdown period. During the COVID-19 pandemic, online learning can help maintain social distancing and then reduce the transmission of Corona Virus. |
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| Promotion of Community networks - 01/05/2020 |
| Coolab |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | Brazil (Federative Republic of) |
| CooLab was founded originally to develop installations, technology and awareness of community-based, self managed networks. We believe that this model creates opportunities for all those who are below the financial requirements of market connectivity options and those who want to take control of their data and the technology used to transport it. Community networks create a resilient and autonomou (...) |
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| Open Gouv launches All Against COVID-19 portal - 01/05/2020 |
| Open Gouv Haiti |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | Haiti (Republic of) |
| OpenGouv Haiti has launched a national information portal on COVID-19 which offers a space for collaboration and helps to rally the various actors of civil society around a shared strategy to carry the appropriate awareness messages to their target audiences, while being a resource platform for monitoring all the statistics of evolution of the disease. A space for “citizen watch” is also created f (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: open government; transparency; citizen watch |