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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The app is sharing stories of different medical frontline heroes who lost their lives fighting COVID or caring for COVID patients. The app lists people from all around the world and also has a news section with stories from news publications around the world honouring frontline heroes.
Read MoreThe website shares positive COVID-related stories and news that are happening around the world to lift the spirits during the pandemic.
Read MoreOn Happy Letters, people can easily write letters online and send them to elderly people through this website to brighten their day. So far 500 letters were sent in 4 countries.
Read MoreA group of developers and designers launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund Syncify. The goal of the app is to reduce isolation and loneliness by enabling people to share their listening experiences with friends and family.
Read MoreThe Club Quarantäne will be broadcasting exclusive sets from well-known DJ’s. The website functions as the venue, asking people to tackle obstacles like enduring a long (Berghain-style) line outside before entering, then offering them a place to interact with each other virtually, to dance and have fun.
Read MoreThe aim of the initiative is to offer ideas for different, funny entertainment activities and crafts projects at home to make lockdown more bearable. All activities include the use of Oatly products and packaging.
Read MoreUnable to invite visitors onto their premises, Finnish museums are taking to their websites and social media to meet the demand for beauty, inspiration and ideas, bringing audiences everything from video art to VR guided tours.
Read MoreThe platform launched by Sylvie McGowan, art therapist and designer interested in the unconscious processes happening when we dream and create, aims at being a library of dreams, where anyone can share their latest dream to see how our dreams change when we collectively experience a crisis like COVID.
Read MoreAll profits from the book will go towards home testing kits for COVID, vaccines for the disenfranchised, care packages for the elderly and/or single mothers, families with insane medical costs or the production of ventilators and masks and gloves for doctors. When purchasing the book, people will receive a detailed receipt of how the proceeds were used.
Read MoreVirtual lessons are offered anywhere via FaceTime or Skype for £40/hr. People interested can simply register via an online form and will then receive direct contact details to their new teacher who can set up one to one lessons online or in person, with 100% of the tuition fee going directly to the musician.
Read MoreThe audio artist Antoine Bertin used COVID-19's RNA sequence to create a series of audio meditations as an at home art project. The sounds are available on Spotify.
Read MoreThis platform offers information on a daily basis on changes in consumption, social and purchasing behaviour, the movement of people, as well as the perception of the crisis in different countries around the world.
Read MoreCorona Climate Data is a community hub to store, analyse and visualise positive environmental data during the corona pandemic. With a majority of the world social distancing or in complete lockdown, our way of life has slowed and changed. The website shows how this has positively affected climate-change related factors.
Read MoreMexico's government scaled up its information and COVID awareness campaign, informing citizens to stay at home and follow social distancing measures. Indigenous community radio stations are now stepping in to bring those messages into rural areas without internet, translating the information in various indigenous languages.
Read MoreVolunteers working at the Zwolle Foundation are putting together first aid kits to help families combat boredom during lockdown with games, and home sports.
Read MoreThanks to this initiative, students around the world from high school to college are sharing their stories and experiences to help and inspire other students. Through this website, youngs answer different questions and tell about their own experiences during the coronavirus.
Read MoreVeronica Kirin, the founder of Stories of Covid, is interviewing people to document their experiences and answer the questions we are all asking ourselves: How will this pandemic change the world? The platform is a compilation of those interviews.
Read MoreResearchers at Arizona State University have introduced an online COVID-19 archive called Journal of the Plague Year. Anyone can submit content to this archive regarding their personal experience with COVID-19.
Read MoreFamous actor Matthew McConaughey along with his wife, mother and children hosted a Bingo game via Zoom for all the residents in quarantine living at the Enclave at Round Rock Senior Living in Round Rock, Texas.
Read MoreThe Heroes of COVID-19 memory game is very easy to play: people have to match the faces of the 'heroes' in as few clicks as possible. Every time they match a hero, a pop-up will show up, describing their heroic accomplishments.
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