| Health Workforce Online Capacity Building - 19/04/2020 |
| Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI) |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | Asia & Pacific | Indonesia |
| Ensuring how the health workforce in primary healthcare in rural areas is equipped with the necessary capacity to tackle COVID-19 in communities, CISDI provided several online courses for health workers all across Indonesia, collaborating with health experts to give guidance and tips in handling challenge of cultural, norms, and information about COVID-19. |
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| Open Analysis Software for Mobile phone data (COVID-19 response efforts) - 14/04/2020 |
| The University of Tokyo |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | Asia & Pacific | Japan |
| We support the countries to track the flow of people and trace the movement of COVID-19 infected patients together with those who had direct contacts with the patients (reported by public health offices) using mobile phone data (Call Detail Record (CDR) data). An open analysis software “Mobipack” is provided to the countries with technical support and on-line hand-on training so that the countries (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: COVID-19, CDR data, open software |
| Understand COVID-19’s impact on your country's networks - 09/04/2020 |
| Ookla |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | United States |
| As a part of our Ookla® for Good project and in response to the COVID-19 health crisis, Ookla is offering regulators complimentary access to the Speedtest Intelligence platform. Access to Speedtest Intelligence will be granted for 45 days and will include data on fixed network performance, mobile network performance and mobile network coverage in your nation. |
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Perma Link Keywords: QoS, QoE, fixed network performance, mobile network performance, COVID-19, coronavirus, Speedtest, Ookla |
| Covid-19: Policy Briefings - 07/04/2020 |
| World Wide Web Foundation |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | United States |
| The Web Foundation has produced a set of policy briefs in response to COVID-19 to ensure the web/the Internet stays open and serves as a lifeline during this public emergency. The topics are misinformation, Internet access,and data rights. Misinformation: Conspiracy theories and misleading claims get in the way of official advice, undermine our response to the virus and can cost lives. Our recomm (...) |
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| Responding to COVID-19 - How Wikimedia can help in this time of uncertainty - 06/04/2020 |
| The Wikimedia Foundation |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | United States |
| The Wikimedia Foundation has led efforts to ensure Wikipedia remains available for everyone to access reliable information about the global pandemic. Thanks to the hard work of Wikipedia volunteers around the world, more than 5,200 Wikipedia articles about the pandemic have been created in 175 languages. These articles have been visited over 424 million times. Wikipedia content is also being used (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: Education, Wikipedia, information, neutrality, reliability, digital learning, access |
| Coronavirus crisis: A digital policy overview - 06/04/2020 |
| Geneva Internet Platform |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | Europe | Switzerland |
| In the wake of the corona virus outbreak, digital epidemiology is emerging fast. We are witnessing the involvement of major tech actors who are exploring and exploiting the potential of artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and other emerging technologies in predicting, monitoring, and preventing the adverse effects of the crisis.A number of tech companies and medical and scientific institutions (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: Digital Policy, Cloud computing, Digital economy |