Past COVID-19 Innovations in Action

INNOVATIONS IN ACTION: PREVIOUSLY SHOWCASED

Innovators across the globe are helping address COVID-19 with their existing or new innovations across 12 categories. 100s of them have shared their COVID-19 activities. We are closely reviewing, and hand-picking a new selection of innovations regularly.
Previously Showcased Innovations are BelowClick over to their innovation profiles to learn more about the innovations and contact them.

Innovation Name	Featured Date	Description
40K PLUS - Edtech solution finding ways to support teachers and students impacted by the pandemic in Cambodia and India	May 21, 2020	The 40K PLUS, a Google Impact Challenger and MIT Solver, is a technology platform with an end-to-end technology solution that can make educational material accessible and available offline to all learners through low-cost, android devices to support impacted students and teachers in India and Cambodia. During the pandemic: 40K PLUS is working with the Cambodian Ministry of Education allowing them to roll out programs in Kampong Cham province, while also providing learners with access to smartphones with limited internet connectivity the learning medium for continuing their English language lessons. In India, 40K PLUS has recently partnered with a volunteer group, Whitefield Ready, and Hewlett Packard (HP) to launch PLUS English in government schools in Bangalore.
Benetech's Bookshare Initiative - Accessible digital library for people with reading barriers	May 21, 2020	Bookshare is an initiative that ensures that students with reading barriers are not left behind during school closures by providing ebooks for individuals with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers. This initiative allows users across the globe to customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading. Bookshare assists communities, schools, and families contending with COVID-19 by providing access to over 800,000 ebooks in easy-to-read formats such as in audio, text with karaoke-style highlighting, braille, or large font, and customized reading experiences to suit their individual learning style. In March, Bookshare saw over 14,000 new sign-ups, and their training webinars have seen high demand with 1000+ registrants for each session.
Dimagi - Provides free COVID-19 mobile/desktop apps for contract tracing, facility readiness & more	May 21, 2020	Provides free COVID-19 mobile/desktop apps for contract tracing, facility readiness & more. CommCare is an offline-first, open-source, mobile data collection and service delivery platform. Our platform is already the choice for the largest mobile health program in the world, while the Ogun state government in Nigeria and the CDC in California have already begun working with us during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Health Alert & Noora Heatlh - Disseminating accurate, timely information to the public at scale	May 21, 2020	Disseminating accurate, timely information to the public at scale. The World Health Organization launched Praekelt.org's Health Alert globally which provides COVID-19 updates via WhatsApp and Facebook. In DRC Village Reach is working with the Communications Commission of the CNC to apply this solution. HealthAlert was implemented in Bangladesh in partnership Noora Health, the Government of Bangladesh, WhatsApp and others so the people of Bangladesh can receive real-time, localized COVID-19 information. HealthAlert has been implemented in other countries and is also available to be implemented in additional countries.
Village Reach - Provides timely and accurate health information to people in Mozambique	May 21, 2020	Provides timely and accurate health information to people in Mozambique. In Mozambique VillageReach and Viamo are collaborating to develop the messaging capability of existing Ministry of Health services, AloVida and Plataforma Educativa de Informação Sobre a Saúde (PENSA), which will also get linked with the Health Alert service. This is just one of Viamo's many partnerships delivering pre-recorded COVID-19 messages in 15+ countries.
Sehat Kahani - Telehealth provider providing free consultations for 3 months from female doctors	May 21, 2020	Telehealth provider providing free consultations for 3 months from female doctors Sehat Kahani is a telehealth provider in Pakistan. In collaboration with the Prime Minister's Digital Pakistan initiative, Sehat Kahani is providing free consultations for 3 months connecting any patient who is in need of advice, counseling, and education on COVID-19 to qualified licensed female doctors 24/7.
Maya - A platform providing key COVID-19 info via private messaging & more	May 21, 2020	A platform providing key COVID-19 info via private messaging & more Maya is a knowledge sharing/messaging platform available on Android, Web, and Free Basics. In order to meet the increased demand for COVID-19, Maya has developed new platforms (e.g. a hotline that received 2000 calls in its first month) and strengthened existing ones (e.g. the chatbots responded to 40,000+ users in April 2020). Among other countries, it is implemented in Bangladesh and Pakistan.