Italy is resisting the coronavirus with courage e solidarity. Many the donations and fundraising aimed at frontline hospitals. The Italian model is appreciated by the World Health Organization and the stiffening of the measures that force isolation begins to bear fruit. The country does will rise soon. So many hi-tech companies and startups are joining the project digital solidarity launched by the Minister for Technological Innovation Paola pisano.
Solidarity from the digital world
The latest government decree, which puts all of Italy in a "protected area", calls for to stay at home to contain the spread of covid19. However, professionals as well as students and teachers must be able to continue meeting their commitments.
They also serve, let's face it, entertainment services to spend pleasant days at home alone or with children. “Connectivity, digital information and culture, smart working, e-Learning, e-Commerce and data driven policy can help us to break down the boundaries of the red zone without forcing us to go beyond them”, commented the Minister on Twitter. The companies responded promptly with a gesture of solidarity. Within a week they were presented 700 applications. "We are checking and validating them," Pisano said.
The objectives of solidarity
The initiative asks for free services that allow, among other things, to working from home with a fast connection. But also to be able to read a book or newspaper on your mobile. Have available e-Learning platforms to follow the school path. There are also many solutions to do the spaesa directly on the internet or simply dedicate yourself to your hobbies such as art or cooking. dall 'list you can safely choose what we need for free and use it even if for a limited time.
The services available
Among the smart working solutions there is Connectia which provides free use of the Webex platform for two weeks. Cisco It offers a platform, to join meetings and share documents. You can also count on promotions for the Amazon cloud. The Hangouts Meet video conferencing service which allows up to 250 participants per video call, live streaming up to 100 users and the ability to record and save meetings on Google Drive. Microsoft provides technology and experts for smart working solutions.
Online education
Amazon always offers free webinar training for teachers while it is registered TIM We school to share materials on the internet and manage group work with their students. There is also WeTurtle, web community dedicated to teachers o SmartTales with interactive and animated books for children aged 3 to 6. Teachers and learners will also be able to count on the digital teaching solutions of Treccani School.
More gigabytes to surf with your mobile
Telephone operators have also joined the MID solidarity project. From the second week of March Wind-Three offers its customers 100 gigabytes free for one week. TIM gives for a month jig and until the end of April unlimited calls from landline. Vodafone provides companies and students between the ages of 14 and 26 with unlimited connections for one month.
Audio books and newspapers so as not to get bored
We also think about entertainment so as not to get bored in all these days that we will be at home. Mondadori offers 50 thousand free quarterly subscriptions to a magazine of your choice in digital format. And they do too Republic e The print. Lions offers the service of Spoken Book: downloading and listening to audiobooks reserved for people with disabilities and access toaudio library with 10 thousand titles.
Bertoni Publisher donate a digital book for all citizens who request it. Mashed potato Youcanprint.it grants free reading of an e-book of your choice from its catalog. And for those wishing to stream some movies in peace, they can count on the catalog of Infinity Group Mediaset which also includes many cartoons for the little ones. So many solutions to allow us to spend in the best way this period of isolation. It will be possible work or otherwise pleasantly pass the time. Everything will be fine, together we will make it.
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