Back in early 2020, TrendWatching launched ‘Covid Innovations’ to inspire entrepreneurs and marketers to serve their customers better in dire covid times.
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Several self-service technologies have been adopted over the past three months in China to help mitigate the risks caused by COVID. These include face masks vending machines by Topow, hot meal vending containers by Country Garden, unmanned grocery stores by Alibaba and self-service pick-up lockers by Meituan.
Read MoreTrade will donate $2 for every first coffee order to roaster employee funds, and Chobani will match each dollar contributed by Trade, up to $20,000, in order to support small roasters that have been struggling due to COVID.
Read MoreThe platform focuses on helping hospitality staff affected by recent venue closures. Each video course (cooking, cocktail making,…) is presented by hospitality professionals who have volunteered their time to help out their fellow hospo workers, with all profits going to struggling hospitality workers.
Read MoreThe project was created in partnership with local entrepreneurs, restaurants, and artists to create a hotel experience during lockdown. This includes a virtual check-in, a curated locally sourced welcome box delivered via mail, live online entertainment and even a virtual concierge.
Read MoreWorking with the Vodafone Foundation, the ‘Corona-AI’ project will use the free DreamLab app, which crunches calculations using a smartphone’s computing power while its user sleeps. The app has already helped find potential new cancer drugs and is now aiming to help in the fight against COVID.
Read MoreAutistica's team shared a video to show how they are coping in these uncertain times and asks people to help by sharing their own best ways to cope with the situation, and by taking on a fundraising challenge to support autism research during the World Autism Awareness Month
Read MoreCommunication agency GroupM in Romania launches a campaign to motivate people to wear masks whenever they go outside to stop the spread of COVID.
Read MoreCrowdiate showcases a shortlist of a recent challenge calling for marketing ideas that encourage people to stay safe and strong to creatively overcome the global threat of COVID together.
Read MoreChinese companies have come up with new ways to optimally allocate human resources during the COVID epidemic from businesses that haven’t resumed operations or are only partially operating due to lockdowns or declining business.
Read MoreThe company's main product, Hilab, is a portable, connected laboratory capable of instantly detecting infectious diseases through non-invasive blood tests. The COVID testing set up includes the mini lab and the test kits. The first wave of tests should be ready by mid-April.
Read MoreThe website My Lockdown Diary offers easy and fun to use templates so you can start your own quarantine diary. Thanks to the platform you will be able to save some memories of what went on during the COVID crisis for your future self.
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 MoreLena Dischinger, founder of Studio PALEA, which offers coaching and branding services, is offering a free workbook online for small businesses called 'How to keep going when everything stands still'.
Read MoreThe website, created by parents of early years, KS2 and KS3 children, helps parents and kids discover activities, video content and more to find fun and engaging things to do at home during school closures.
Read MoreThe app provides people with essential skills to adapt and develop mental resilience during times of change, by offering access to wellbeing content, daily activities to work and live well, developed by experts.
Read MoreIndian Railways’ new mobile doctor booth called CHARAK allows for check-ups requiring zero direct physical contact. This permits medical staff to abandon single-use protective clothing, making it environmentally friendly and less resource intensive.
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 MoreResearchers from biotech startup Biobot Analytics are working with a team from MIT, Harvard University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital to measure how prevalent COVID is in a given community through the use of wastewater.
Read MoreTo offer people in quarantine the opportunity of exploring South Africa’s beautiful outdoors, Tintswalo’s is offering virtual safaris called ‘On the Beat’ from its Manyeleti Game Reserve.
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.
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