Question

▪ Research and describe how information and communication technologies are playing a vital role during COVID-19 pandemic in enabling many of us to carry out our regular duties from the comfort of our homes.

Answer 1

EXPLANATION:

The solution for the COVID-19 pandemic is everyone's duty, with billions confined to home, a worldwide economy in dire straitjacket, and countless precious lives in danger. In helping governments, businesses and people all over the world cope with the ongoing crisis and ultimately overcome this epidemic, the ICT community plays a vital role. ICT technologies and services have also facilitated the continuous access of communities worldwide to healthcare, education and critical products and services. The newspaper provides a wide variety of services.

ITU, as the UN's multinational and diverse professional information and communication body, has called upon ICT and others to take up the task and to show unity against the danger to mankind posed by the pandemic.ITU has launched its Global Network Resilience Initiative (REG4Covid), to enable policy makers, regulators, and players across the industry to make networks as resilient and as accessible as possible, with a view to resolving the pressure faced by telecommunications networks, which are vital to people's health and safety worldwide.

ITU and WHO, with funding from UNICEF, have initiated an initiative in order to collaborate with telecommunication companies in order to help them defend themselves against COVID 19 in text messages directly on their cell phones using critical health messages. These text messages can touch billions of people who can not connect to the Internet.In addition to the Global Education Alliance of UNESCO, ITU has reaffirmed ITU's commitments to connecting people at all stages of education to learning possibilities in these challenging times and developing long-term more sustainable education systems for over 1.5 billion students and youth around the world, affected by academic closures.