| Telecom companies speed up Internet, discount services amid COVID-19 - 06/04/2020 |
| Ministry of Information and Communications |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Asia & Pacific | Viet Nam |
| The Ministry of Information and Communications said that in order to help people, businesses and society in strictly following the Prime Minister's directive on urgent measures to prevent and control COVID-19, the ministry has asked telecommunications businesses to implement a number of support programmes.To Dung Thai, deputy general director of VNPT Group, said that it would increase Internet ban (...) |
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| Launching the website www.evdeqal.az - 06/04/2020 |
| Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | CIS countries | Azerbaijan |
| The website www.evdeqal.az was launched jointly by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of Azerbaijan and the United Nations Development Programme providing users with online services in the categories of “education”, “delivery”, “medicine”, “food” and “entertainment”, as well as makes available detailed information about the challenges and opportunities during the perio (...) |
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| COVID-19: Efforts by the local communication services operators - 06/04/2020 |
| Malta Communications Authority - MCA |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Europe | Malta |
| The MCA is keeping an ongoing dialogue with telecommunications and postal operators to ensure that citizens stay connected and adapt with ease during this extraordinary crises.The Authority is also in close cooperation with several ministries and other governmental bodies and with counterpart European national regulatory authorities to facilitate and support policies and decisions taken Maltese Go (...) |
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| #stayathome with UKE - 06/04/2020 |
| Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Europe | Poland |
| UKE has came up with a special initiative #stayathome, preparing interesting educational materials for children and parents, during this challenging COVID-19 time. On our website, there are three cycles are waiting for younger and older, which we will regularly update throughout the entire period of home insulation:#Talk to child - at this special time, most of us moved their activities to the vir (...) |
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| 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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| Instance Nationale des Télécommunications de Tunisie releases daily report tracking Internet traffic - 05/04/2020 |
| Instance Nationale des Télécommunications de Tunisie |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Arab States | Tunisia |
| The legal regulatory body that governs telecommunications systems in Tunisia releases a data visualization report of the effect of COVID-19 on mobile and radio Internet traffic every day since April 5th, 2020. Reports can be found at http://www.intt.tn/fr/index.php?rub=266&srub=409&art=489&status= |
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