Back in early 2020, TrendWatching launched ‘Covid Innovations’ to inspire entrepreneurs and marketers to serve their customers better in dire covid times.
With Covid thankfully no longer impacting daily life, we’re fully focused again on all innovations that make the world a little bit better - check out Daily, our free publication to stay on top of the latest trends, insights and innovations.
TraceTogether makes it faster to complete contact tracing on a national level to reduce the spread of COVID. The simple, bluetooth-based contact tracing app helps government officials in Singapore understand who might have been in contact with COVID patients.
Read MoreThe website enables Londoners to discover and connect with local businesses in their city remotely, to find grocers, butchers, beer & wine merchants, restaurants, and cafes that will deliver to your front door. And also to stay and entertained with virtual exercise & yoga classes, child tutoring, cooking lessons, and more.
Read MoreThe Argentinian platform coordinates teams of volunteers who, during a 2-day virtual workshop, without the need for prior knowledge, generate innovative solutions to increase the capacity of organisations that are directly confronted to meeting the challenge of COVID-19.
Read MoreTech To The Rescue is a voluntary movement connecting IT companies with non-governmental organisations around the world, to help NGOs with all types of tech-related issues, such as e-commerce, research, fundraising, software development, etc.
Read MoreSnapchat has launched a new set of filters designed to encourage its users to donate money to help fight COVID. The AR filters allows users to scan 23 international currency notes across 33 countries. The app will then give people the option of donating directly to the UN COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund which supports the World Health Organization.
Read MoreThe app detects devices around you that also have the ‘Keep Your Distance’ app. Algorithms can then estimate the distance between your device and other people's devices and will send distance notifications if you are too close to another person's device, without any internet connection needed.
Read MoreThe website uses the State Health Departments and other sources to provide real-time information. This information includes ranking countries with active cases of coronavirus and showing a map of Brazil with the most infected areas and cities.
Read MoreThe online platform connects companies in need of support with other businesses who lost projects and/or clients interested to share their employees’ costs and skills with another company, temporarily. This reduces layoffs and helps companies in need of support.
Read MoreThe website Space Out helps shoppers check how crowded malls are with colour codes according to current crowd levels, in hopes that people will make better decisions about where to go amid the COVID outbreak.
Read MoreEnigma's team developed SafeTrace to facilitate privacy-preserving contact tracing. The app lets users share sensitive location and health data with other users and officials, without compromising the privacy of that personal data.
Read MoreThe digital rooms enable doctor offices to reduce the spread of COVID in waiting rooms. Patients call the reception from their home, get a personal waiting number and a link via SMS to check the status online and can then enter the medical practice after being called, when their turn comes.
Read MoreThe app aims to protect essential workers on the frontlines - in food service, grocery, delivery, retail and facilities - with high-impact COVID training delivered via text message, and it’s completely free.
Read MoreFor WhatsApp messages that have already been forwarded five times, users will no longer be able to forward that message to more than one chat at a time. Recently, WhatsApp saw a significant increase in message forwarding which can contribute to the spread of misinformation.
Read MoreZeSight helps companies to take proactive measures to keep their workforce safe from COVID, capturing real-time health status and working conditions of their teams and assessing the capacity and resilience of the workforce.
Read MoreVoxel51 is tracking the impact of COVID on social behavior using a metric they call the Voxel51 Physical Distancing Index (PDI). With computer vision models and live video streams from some of the most visited streets in the world, the PDI captures the average amount of human activity and social distancing behaviors in major cities over time.
Read MoreHero is helping stores use digital tools to stay connected with their customers during lockdown. For example, the Hero platform offers video calling between store associates and customers from each others smartphones, as well as coordinating follow-up questions via texts.
Read MoreThe web app includes reviews of health apps across a range of health conditions relevant to COVID, including reviews of COVID apps launched to date. ORCHA is also offering free professional accounts to all NHS staff for the next three months, which let healthcare professionals find and recommend health apps to patients via text or email.
Read MoreThese Community Mobility Reports provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID, thanks to anonymised data from products such as Google Maps. The reports chart movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, workplaces and more.
Read MoreFrom April 15, victims will be able to go to the Someplace Safe website and find a chat now button that will connect them directly to a domestic violence specialist. This will help women who are monitored, stalked, or never left alone calling from home to reach for help by texting.
Read MoreRosebud, an AI face generator, wants people to upload their profile pictures to automatically fit a mask to them. The initiative was developed to support the #Masks4All movement.
Read More
