COVID-19 Innovative Response Tracker

Australia have created a voluntary contact tracing app called COVIDsafe. The COVIDSafe smartphone app uses a Bluetooth wireless signal to exchange a "digital handshake" with another user when they come within 1.5m. The app then logs this contact and encrypts it. Users will be notified if they have had more than 15 minutes of close contact with another user who tests positive. Amid privacy concerns about who will have access to the app's stored data, the government said only state health…

The Astana Civil Service Hub, on the basis of its mission, aiming to support the governments of the participating countries, has created this platform where they can exchange of knowledge and best practices in applying innovations to respond to COVID-19. The platform includes countries’ reports with statistical indicators, recommendations and other facts that might be useful in the fight against the pandemic. The main objectives of the platform are: - аccumulation of analytical data and…

The EU has created the Digital Response to Covid-19, giving users access to a large resource database including open source software, websites, and platforms that are useful for public administrations, businesses, and citizens dealing with the ongoing crisis: Open source solutions – A growing list of open source software solutions available to help medical staff, public administrations, businesses, and citizens in their daily activities. Open data – Open databases and datasets to analyse the…

The Braziian government is using AI to assist in the mapping and tracking of COVID-19 infections. Interactive voice response (IVR) robots will trigger automatic calls and carry out virtual consultation with Brazilians. Using AI, the robot will ask people about contacts with those infected, commuting on public transport and day-to-day care to understand hwo the outbreak is developing. The system will then cross the information and, using big data and analytical tools, track who is at risk, who…

One of Israel’s largest health maintenance organizations is using artificial intelligence to help identify which of the 2.4 million people it covers are most at risk of severe covid-19 complications. Maccabi Healthcare Services says the system—which it developed with AI company Medial EarlySign—has already flagged 2% of its members, amounting to around 40,000 people. Once identified, individuals are put on a fast track for testing. The AI was adapted from an existing system trained to…

The Office for Digital Response to Covid-19 was set up to assess and implement digital-based measures, ensuring an coordinated response by involving public and private players. The Office released of a set of initiatives such as the reinforcement of the infrastructure to public digital services, special communications packages (both data and calls) to healthcare professionals (as well businesses and citizens), specific conditions to licences and access to solutions of homeschooling and…

All foreign citizens with pending requests for residence permits (requests made up until the declaration of the state of emergency – March 18, 2020) will have their legal status regularized on national territory until June 30 for, namely, obtaining access to the National Health Service or other health care rights, access to social support services, signing of rental contracts, signing of employment contracts, the opening of bank accounts and contracting essential public services.

In Portugal, the Directorate-General for Education (DGE), in collaboration with the National Agency for Qualification and Vocational Education (ANQEP), has built a dedicated website with a set of resources to support schools in the use of distance learning methodologies that allow them to continue teaching and learning processes.

The Directorate-General of Administration and Public Employment has created a microsite to answer public servants’ questions about the support measures in sick leave or quarantine regime.

Portugal have created a 'Collaborative Work Plan in Public Administration', prepared within the area of governance of State Modernisation and Public Administration (nameley by the coordination of the Incentive System for Innovation in Public Management/SIIGeP), setting out guidelines for public services in the context of the state of emergency declared by the Decree of the President of the Republic No. 14-A/2020, of March 18. The plan encompasses six areas of work, namely:  Development of…