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Ehteraz - an app that uses a GPS feature and Bluetooth to track and control COVID-19 cases in Qatar. *The project is under final stages of development and expected to go live soon. The profile of each user is linked to a QR Code that automatically extracts the user’s health information from official entities. Classifying users will be done based on the following categories: * Red – for people who have tested positive for Covid-19 * Yellow – for individuals who have been placed in…
Utilizing Droobi technology solution and platform to assist healthcare workers in accessing patients’ lifestyles and clinical information remotely, identifying patients at higher risk and engaging them through behavioral therapy, with limited healthcare worker exposure and monitoring patient movement within quarantine facilities
Ecourt is live since before, but in light of the COVID-19 situation, and to ensure accessibility to justice is maintained, Qatar leveraged eCourt to attain its purpose and utilized it for the first time during the social distancing period. Ecourt is a paperless e-case management solution that covers the full court process lifecycle – from case filing to issuance of a judgment. It allows parties to file and access case papers and communications with the Court and Regulatory Tribunal. Ecourt is…
Al-Asas security robots are robots that perform patrols in both residential and public areas of the country to educate the community on the importance of preventing gatherings. It will also detect violators during its rounds as each robot is equipped with 6 fixed cameras and is controlled by the security systems management. It also has a face recognition feature which is linked to the government database in the National Command Centre (NCC) to detect violators and penalize them with the assigned…
The eCommerce directory will be shown in the Qatar’s eCommerce portal. This will be done based on the following steps. • Logo • Online name. • Category • Link URL and APP, Google play and Android. • Description about the company. If anyone wants to search for the online shop, they can sort by the category which listed as Clothing, Groceries, Healthcare, Electronics, Home & Kitchen and Marketplace, Gifts, Industrial & scientific goods, Beauty, Toys & Games, Sports & outdoors,…
The Greek Ministry of Digital Govrnance launched, on April 14, two initiatives facilitating Digital Innovation Against COVID-19, using the hashtag #GreeceVsVirus, and is also participating in the #EUvsVirus challenge, as follows: A. Digital Innovation Against COVID-19 Ideas Challenge The challenge is an initiative of the Ministry of Digital Governance and aims to pursue innovative ideas to address the needs of the National Health System against the COVID-19 pandemic. Ideas for Digi-Tech…
The CovidApp platform was developed to help at-home patients and potentially infected citizens to monitor their symptoms and health during the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic. Working with Santo António Hospital, one of the reference hospitals for the Northern region of Portugal, FMUP, the Faculty of Medicine for the city of Porto, MOSANO built an MVP in record time to allow doctors and reference personnel to track patients’ and potential patients’ health symptoms, predict when they need to be…
A collaborative effort of over 40 volunteers have been scraping official reports from the state Health Secretariats in order to obtain daily, city-level data about Covid-19 in Brazil. The data is then made available as bulk CSV downloads, as a JSON API as well as a web form on the Brasil.io open data platform. This is the only open data source available for daily Covid-19 data in Brazil that has municipality level granularity.
The UAE government has showed its readiness to identify and provide vital services for all citizens and residents so that they can obtain their government services around the clock through using smart channels without the need of any physical visit to its centers. This is to enable customers to complete their transactions remotely, in a way that ensures their safety and supports the UAE’s efforts towards facing the challenges of COVID-19, and reduce its impact on all sectors. All these vital…