Providing Personal Protective Equipment for Frontline Healthcare Workers
Honeywell is supporting response teams through the supply of necessary required personal protective equipment.
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Mastercard committed $25 million in seed funding to the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, a global initiative in collaboration with Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to speed-up the response to the COVID-19 epidemic by identifying, assessing, developing, and scaling-up treatments.
Training Healthcare Workers and Technical Support and Expertise for Program Management
Johnson & Johnson is providing nursing training support through the World Continuing Education Alliance (WCEA) digital platform. The content is the WHO-approved curriculum that is being adapted by AKUSONAM and the nursing council in Kenya.
The company has also offered one-year technical support for the Covid-19 National Secretariat at the Ministry of Health hosted in the Chief Administrative Secretary Health office through staffing by 2 key staff focusing on program management and epidemiology.
They further made a cash donation of USD 50,000 to the Business Compact Flexible Rapid Response fund.
Using AI and Analytics to Develop Locally Relevant Solutions to COVID-19 Challenges
IBM Launched Watson Citizen Assistant to help countries respond to incoming COVID-19-related questions from residents.
In Kenya, they organized an online hackathon bringing together innovators and developers to design and develop appropriate and locally relevant solutions to address challenges brought about by Covid-19 using technologies such as artificial intelligence and analytics.
They are also making available their online learning platform for free training on new technologies including certification and online job search engine available at www.digitalnationafrica.com
Facilitating Access to Verified Information and Internet Connectivity
Google is pointing local Google search users to links to the government’s official online information resources on COVID-19. Their SOS Alert in and knowledge panel also gives the latest information from the WHO about COVID 19 symptoms, prevention or treatments.
The company is also supporting the government with the creation and promotion of COVID-19 informational and educational videos and removing COVID-19 misinformation on YouTube, Google Maps, Google Play and in ads.
They are also providing technical support to the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development in broadcasting its school lessons live on YouTube and extended advanced features of its video conferencing tool – Meet – for free to all subscribers of its suite of office productivity, including schools who get the suite for free.
They have developed a free website on the hows of remote working for workers of all kinds – https://grow.google/remotework/ – and a website for distance learning resources.
They are further improving access to internet connectivity in Kenya using Google Loon.
Facilitating Access to Verified Information on COVID-19
Facebook have given the Ministry of Health free ad credits to run coronavirus education campaigns on its platforms.
The company is also launching a WhatsApp Business API – a dedicated Coronavirus hotline, as an automated ‘chatbot’ service to provide answers to common questions about Coronavirus from the Ministry of Health 24 hours a day and enable the Ministry of Health to send urgent messages to all Kenyans who opt-in for the service.
Supporting Frontline Workers and Community Safety and Wellbeing
Coca Cola is leveraging its marketing, advertising and packaging for mass communication on the virus and working with a non-profit health organization to provide medical supplies to needy hospitals.
They have also partnered with the Kenya Red Cross to provide hydration and beverages for medical staff working on the front-line of testing and quarantine center’s across Nairobi as well as leveraged its wide distribution network to transport essential supplies across the country e.g. hand sanitizers and water.
Together with SHOFCO, they are installing hygiene stands at slum entry points and roll out door to door campaigns in Kibera, Mukuru and Mathare.