The impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has created many new challenges, and for many of us, has required that we adopt new ways of working. Here are some of the ways we’re working to support businesses, government institutions, researchers, and one another.
We’re also working with state agencies like the on solutions for medical staff to engage remotely with at-risk people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus. Within 48 hours, the department deployed an app that allowed medical staff to follow up directly with people who reported symptoms and direct affected citizens to testing sites.
Internationally, we’re working with a number of governments to provide collaboration solutions and tools to track the spread of COVID-19. For example, in Spain, we’ve set up an app for the to help citizens perform self-assessments of coronavirus symptoms and offer guidance, easing the demands on the healthcare system. The Spanish national government is also planning to deploy this app across other regions in the country in the coming days.
so they can continue their school year virtually at home. And we continue to provide critical infrastructure for nonprofit educational organization , which supported 18 million learners per month before the crisis. Since school closures began, Khan Academy is seeing record growth across all metrics: Time spent on the site is approximately 2.5 times normal, student and teacher registrations are up roughly six times from this period last year, and parent registration is up 20 times normal.
, which opened a free online school service in response to school closures in Indonesia and was tapped by more than a million learners on day one.—the governing body accountable for millions of Italian schoolchildren—to rapidly shift students entirely to remote learning. Our teams banded together, and engineers worked around the clock to speed up the enrollment process, even making a virtual help desk available for timely activation and support.
COVID-19 data, the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey data, and OpenStreetMaps data. We’re also providing $20 million in Google Cloud credits to academic institutions and research organizations as they study potential therapies and vaccines, track critical data, and identify new ways to combat COVID-19. Researchers at accredited academic institutions can
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