{"id":717,"date":"2021-04-14T17:07:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T21:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesspartners2convince.org\/?post_type=resource&p=717"},"modified":"2021-04-14T17:15:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T21:15:52","slug":"google-fight-against-covid-19-includes-800m-commitment","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/businesspartners2convince.org\/resource\/google-fight-against-covid-19-includes-800m-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Fight Against COVID-19 Includes $800M Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quick Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Google\u2019s CEO,\u00a0Sundar Pichai<\/strong>\u00a0announced a new $800+ million commitment to support small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), health organizations and governments, and health workers on the frontline of this global pandemic. Google.org is also committing an additionally $50 million to the global COVID-19 response.<\/em><\/p>\n

Google\u2019s Trust and Safety team has been working around the clock and across the globe to safeguard users from phishing, conspiracy theories, malware and misinformation, and is constantly on the lookout for new threats.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Google\u2019s CEO,\u00a0Sundar Pichai<\/strong>\u00a0recently published a\u00a0blog post\u00a0<\/a>announcing a new $800+ million commitment to support small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), health organizations and governments, and health workers on the frontline of this global pandemic. Google.org is also committing an additionally $50 million to the global COVID-19 response. As part of that support, Google will be\u00a0matching<\/a>\u00a0up to $5 million in donations to the WHO\u2019s new COVID-19\u00a0Solidarity Response Fund<\/a>. Google also made a $500,000 grant to a team of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers working on\u00a0HealthMap<\/a>, a website that provides up-to-date trends of emerging public health threats and outbreaks. On 3\/20 Google\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0a $10M Distance Learning Fund to support organizations around the globe that help educators access the resources they need to provide high quality learning opportunities to children, particularly those from underserved communities. Grants from the fund to date: $1M grant to Khan Academy supporting resources to help teachers and students with remote learning, including localization in 15 languages.<\/p>\n

Google continues to develop new resources to connect users to helpful information and resources, such as a global expansion of COVID-19\u00a0SOS Alerts<\/a>\u00a0and YouTube Information Panels, as well as homepage promotions around the world. Google is launching home page promotions, including a global \u201cDo the Five<\/a>\u201d campaign to remind people to follow five simple practices to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Google also developed\u00a0a website<\/a>\u00a0with resources dedicated to COVID-19 education and prevention. This launched in English first, with plans for global expansion.<\/p>\n

Protecting users from misinformation and abuse<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Google is removing COVID-19 misinformation across its platforms. Google\u2019s Trust and Safety team has been working around the clock and across the globe to safeguard users from phishing, conspiracy theories, malware and misinformation, and is constantly on the lookout for new threats.<\/p>\n

Enabling productivity for remote workers and students<\/strong><\/h5>\n

<\/a>Google is seeing more people using the\u00a0premium features<\/a>\u00a0of Meet, a Google video conferencing app, which was made available to all G Suite customers at no cost until July 1, 2020. Google shared tips and\u00a0resources<\/a>\u00a0for remote workers of all kinds. For educators around the globe, Google created new distance learning resources, including\u00a0a collection of training materials<\/a>,\u00a0Teach From Home Hub<\/a>, a new\u00a0YouTube Learning Hub<\/a>, and a series of\u00a0blog posts<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0webinars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For a comprehensive review of all of Google\u2019s initiatives to combat COVID-19, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":718,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","resource_category":[9],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesspartners2convince.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesspartners2convince.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesspartners2convince.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resource"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesspartners2convince.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesspartners2convince.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"resource_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesspartners2convince.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_category?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}