Tech Company COVID 19 Initiatives

How the Tech Industry Has Mobilized to Respond to the Pandemic

Social

• FaceBook
  • $1M to Combat Coronavirus Health Misinformation
  • Workplace Platform for Governments and Emergency Health Organizations
• Twitter
• Discord
  • How to use Discord for your classroom

Enterprise

• Zoom
• Google / Verily
  • Project baseline (COVID-19)
  • [Google's response to COVID-19] (https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/googles-response-covid-19/)
• Microsoft (Teams)
  • Slack and Microsoft fight for millions of remote workers
  • Responding to COVID-19

Telecoms

• Verizon

  • 3/18 Update
  • https://www.lightreading.com/4g-3g-wifi/verizon-to-use-spectrum-connected-to-dish-for-covid-19-traffic-surge/d/d-id/758328?
  • Verizon Taps into Extra Spectrum
  • [With internet demand surging, Verizon gets emergency capacity] (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-03-18/verizon-additional-spectrum-coronavirus-crisis)

• AT&T

  • [What AT&T is doing to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus, COVID-19] (https://about.att.com/pages/COVID-19.html)

Consumer

• Uber
• Lyft
• DoorDash, GrubHub, Deliveroo
• Apple
  • Ensuring the Credibility of Health & Safety Information - News ‎ * Learn and Study From Home : App Store Story
  • Preparing your school's Apple devices for remote learning
  • Apple News adds a special coverage section for tracking the coronavirus outbreak *All of Apple’s hourly workers will continue to receive pay in alignment with business as usual operations

Social Distancing / Security

• Palantir
  • To Track Virus, Governments Weigh Surveillance Tools That Push Privacy Limits

Useful Governments

• Singapore
  • COVID-19 Singapore Dashboard | UCA
• Taiwan
• Hong Kong
• Japan
• South Korea