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How Tech Companies Are Responding To COVID-19 Challenge

Cisco is providing networking equipment and technical support for free to healthcare organizations fighting COVID-19 through a Pandemic Equipment Brokerage program and Healthcare Rapid Response Network Bundles. Tableau has created a COVID-19 Data Hub that aggregates data from sources like Johns Hopkins and the CDC to provide dashboards and tools for visualizing and tracking the outbreak. 10x Management and freelance developers have partnered with WhyHunger to develop an open-source, crowd-sourced interactive map of free meal sites in the US to address rising food insecurity during the pandemic.

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How Tech Companies Are Responding To COVID-19 Challenge

Cisco is providing networking equipment and technical support for free to healthcare organizations fighting COVID-19 through a Pandemic Equipment Brokerage program and Healthcare Rapid Response Network Bundles. Tableau has created a COVID-19 Data Hub that aggregates data from sources like Johns Hopkins and the CDC to provide dashboards and tools for visualizing and tracking the outbreak. 10x Management and freelance developers have partnered with WhyHunger to develop an open-source, crowd-sourced interactive map of free meal sites in the US to address rising food insecurity during the pandemic.

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How Tech Companies are responding to COVID-19 Challenge

A growing number of tech companies and IT pros are working in a variety of ways to help
fight the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Here's a rundown of what some of them are doing to
help fight COVID-19.

Cisco looks to connect healthcare operations and networking gear


Cisco on Monday said it has created two new programs to help healthcare organizations
quickly get networking equipment for free: a "Pandemic Equipment Brokerage" and a
"Healthcare Rapid Response Network Bundle."

The brokerage is designed to match companies looking to donate unused wireless equipment
with healthcare facilities that may need it. "If you have equipment you’d like to donate to
healthcare institutions, you can fill out a Donor form to tell us what you can contribute,"
the company said in a statement. "Healthcare organizations that need equipment can fill out
the Request form to indicate what they need. Cisco will connect the organizations. We also
offer email and virtual technical support for the healthcare organizations that need it. Please
contact covid-healthcare-wlan@external.cisco.com for more information or for help."

Cisco said it has also found equipment in its supply chain that it can distribute quickly "to
support pop-up clinics and rapid response healthcare systems across the globe. We are
making simple kits – a router with LTE uplink, a switch with Power-over-Ethernet capability,
and up to 5 wireless access points – available for quick shipment at no cost to qualifying
healthcare institutions." The company will provide support for the equipment, if needed.

Tableau tackles pandemic with data hub


Tableau Software has created a COVID-19 Data Hub to serve as a resource for vetting a
variety of high-quality data sources related to the ongoing virus outbreak. The hub, which ties
together data from the likes of Johns Hopkins University, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO), offers pre-made dashboards
and allows users to build their own visualizations.

"It evolved organically out of some of the things we were doing for ourselves," said Steve
Schwartz, head of public affairs at Tableau, according to CIO.com. "We were following the
continued spread of the disease, first in Wuhan in China and then as it started to become
clearer that it was moving globally. Then eventually it popped up right in our own backyard
in Seattle."

Schwartz said the data hub is being used in a variety of ways: "I just heard from a couple of
the laboratory pharmaceutical companies that they were using a lot of this data to help inform
where to distribute testing kits," Schwartz says. "They're using this core data to figure out
where to distribute nationally and globally."

10X Management, WhyHunger team up to fight pandemic hunger crisis


10x Management, a freelance developer hiring agency, has partnered with WhyHunger and
software engineers Greg Sadetsky and Colin Wren to develop a comprehensive, crowd-
sourced open-source interactive map of free meal sites in the U.S.
“Food insecurity has become one of the most immediate challenges of the COVID-19
economic fallout," said WhyHunger Executive Director Noreen Springstead. "With
unprecedented unemployment sweeping the nation, hunger is on the rise and we are heading
for a real crisis...."

Said Sadetsky: “...We saw a vital opportunity to use our mapping and software background, to create
this resource to help aid individuals in their greatest hours of need. We’re proud to partner with
WhyHunger to provide real-time information, increase access and combat food insecurity during this
pandemic."

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