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Brazil's National School of Public Administration (Enap) has launched a series of public challenges to combat a variety of issues regarding the epidemic: Efficiency of the health system to face the epidemic Decreasing the economic impacts in the context of Covid-19 Mitigation of the socio-economic consequences of Covid-19 Monitoring and management of coping with the epidemic Companies, impact businesses, private non-profit entities, public and private Scientific and Technological Research…
The Lockdown Dialogues offer citizens and communities the possibility for constructive dialogues during the strains of the lockdown. The concept is to hold a regular series of discussions that will continue for as long as necessary. These dialogues will help to build an understanding of what it is like to live in a world under these unusual circumstances. All citizens are invited to participate in the dialogues. Particular attention is paid to assure that people from different demographic groups…
Estonia had a hackathon, and from this numerous services have been built. For example we now have a chatbot Suve (https://news.err.ee/1067675/government-launches-chatbot-to-answer-coronavirus-crisis-queries), a corona test / symptom tracker (https://koroonatest.ee/), and a dashboard (http://koroonakaart.ee/en)