Online solidarity: all the initiatives to know during the quarantine
Quarantine, red, orange areas, fear and calls to respect the rules.
These are difficult days for the Italians who find themselves facing the Coronavirus emergency and who have been invited by the authorities with more or less severe regulations to remain "isolated" as much as possible.
Fortunately, there are companies that, despite the critical situation, did not allow themselves to be discouraged and rather made available to citizens initiatives aimed at spreading the digitization of everyday life by offering platforms on which to work, study and streaming services to invite us to stay and stay. home in free time. A real digital solidarity. In the meantime, all over Italy, the regulations that invite us to keep our distance and often wash our hands correctly are going crazy:
Telephone companies, publishing houses, IT companies, institutions such as MIUR and commercial giants such as Amazon, all with the aim of facilitating the life of those who are forced into the house, in these hard days.
On the site https://solidarietadigitale.agid.gov.it/#/ you will find all the services offered by companies: from free wi-fi for one month, to magazine subscriptions, to platforms that facilitate remote training and work.
Up to entertainment and online shopping.
Amazon has made funds available to provide Public Administrations, non-governmental and non-profit organizations, startups and businesses, with access to the AWS support plan and assistance channel for emergency-related projects, as well as online training seminars. , lasting an hour and a half, on STEM subjects and intended for primary and lower secondary school teachers in the red areas. The courses will cover the opportunities of Creative Learning and Coding applied to teaching. During the activity, tools will be presented. free to create an innovative "kit" for classroom projects.
Entertainment: readings and videostreaming
There are several publishing groups that have agreed to give subscriptions to their magazines for three months to citizens in quarantine, to keep themselves informed.
But it is also important to find a way to entice us to stay at home, for this reason Amazon offers the Prime Video streaming platform free of charge to users residing in the red zone until March 31, 2020 with a large library of TV series, films and documentaries. available to all.
The means are there, thanks to digital solidarity and that of individual citizens. Let's be good, let's be prudent and take advantage of the wonderful possibilities of technology, the good one!
Discover the info on the website https://solidarietadigitale.agid.gov.it/#/
