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California, US, have this week enabled residents to obtain marriage licenses remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as a result of an exectuive order signed by their Governer, Gavin Newsom. This executive order will allow couples to obtain a marriage license from their county clerk via video conference provided that both members of the couple are state residents and that they can both present a valid form of identification on the video call. The clerk will then email the licenses to the…
The National Institutes of Health and the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH) are bringing together more than a dozen leading biopharmaceutical companies, the Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency to develop an international strategy for a coordinated research response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The planned Accelerating COVID-19…
"A single portal for administrative correspondence, was created to allow administrations and citizens to interact with administration and send their aadministrative correspondence remotely. An electronic administrative correspondence service has also been set up to manage incoming and outgoing mail, as well as those exchanged between internal services at the central and decentralized levels of administrations. to enable administrations to dematerialize administrative documents, electronic…
The Ministry of National Education are replacing the education that was to be done in schools and universities with e-learning or distance learning. Today, schools are able to offer distance education through the portal Tilmidetice.ma for national education and another portal for higher education the portal "tilmid tice" offer e-learning and allow students to study at home, in this portal all levels are covered, from the first primary year to the terminal. it has also Links from all partners as…
1. Multichannel Uruguay implemented a comprehensive and multi-channel digital strategy to face the coronavirus pandemic, with the aim of reaching different segments of the population with all the necessary information, without congesting face-to-face services and telephone communication, and especially facilitating patient care and monitoring patients with symptoms. This strategy enabled the following channels to be available simultaneously: Toll Free Number, WhatsApp, Chatbot, Mobile…
“Data against Covid”: A joint initiative of technology experts and skilled volunteers to help government – COVID.CZ Number of locally based IT companies and enthusiasts joined a “COVID19.CZ” initiative with the goal to help the government to deal with a new pandemic situation as effectively as possible. Experts and skilled volunteers provide modern technology; assist with data analysis and communication toward citizens and health care workers. Key projects are implemented under pro…
A new feature on the travel app Maps.cz tells whether our movements overlapped with someone who tested positive for coronavirus. During the nationwide quarantine in the Czech Republic, a private company Seznam.cz introduced an app to help stop the virus. The solution compares user's GPS coordinates history with location data of people who tested positively for COVID-19. The system is based on self-reporting. More than 1M volunteers have already given their consent to share their location. The…
A multi-channel strategy to move from a general lock-down due to COVID-19 spreading prevention to more normal life an economic activity. This strategy includes: - call centre software and call centre operators to offload auxiliary calls; - “memory maps” based on the location data from mobile operators and credit card payment data from banks; - a contact-tracing mobile application “eRouska”. This complex national solution was built as a non-profit project, piloted in two regions and…