| Avoid customer damage during emergency due to eventual service shut-off, ensure service continuity, avoid network saturation, prevent contagion by face to face interactions - 20/06/2020 |
| OSIPTEL |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Peru |
| • Forbids telecommunication services shut-off during emergency due to lack of payment. • Telecom operators must perform traffic management in order to prioritize the functioning of applications oriented for remote working, tele-education and tele-medicine services, in hours between 08:00 to 18:00, from Monday to Friday, respecting what is established in the Net Neutrality Rulings. • Mandates ope (...) |
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| Regulatory Initiatives - 17/06/2020 |
| Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Asia & Pacific | Pakistan |
| • Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has been playing its role supplementing Government of Pakistan’s efforts by effectively leveraging digital technologies to trace and track patients, identification of COVID-19 clusters and running an extensive awareness campaign to reach users through Telecom network. • PTA successfully mobilized the telecom sector to carry out activities required to ma (...) |
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| Coronavirus: Member States agree on an interoperability solution for mobile tracing and warning apps - 16/06/2020 |
| European Commission |
| International and Regional Organizations | International |
| Member States, with the support of the Commission, have agreed on a set of technical specifications to ensure a safe exchange of information between national contact tracing apps based on a decentralised architecture. This concerns the vast majority of tracing apps that were already – or are about to be – launched in the EU. Once the technical solution is deployed, such national apps will work sea (...) |
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| Educational platforms - 15/06/2020 |
| COOLAB |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | Brazil |
| Not long ago many schools banned smartphone use in classrooms, and suddenly the pandemic forced so many classes to be done online, several students with limited connectivity had their studies jeopardized. We also tried to address this issue in the #liberaowifi action, described above. But there also issues with the educational platforms themselves: many of them are not adapted to low bandwidth, lo (...) |
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| The UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) support to the COVID-19 response - 15/06/2020 |
| UK Government Digital Service (GDS) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Europe | United Kingdom |
| The UK’s COVID-19 response highlights that good digital projects are based on much more than just technology, but on strong digital policy, services and standards and embedded digital, data and technology skills across the public sector. |
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| TSF connects 10 medical centers, covering more than 160,000 patients - 11/06/2020 |
| Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | Arab States | Syria |
| To ensure the protection of the Syrian population, TSF is increasing the number of vital ICT connections in support of medical teams on the ground, to enable them to be better equipped in the face of this trying crisis. |
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