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#I stay at home. Whether we like it or not, in these weeks it is necessary to reinvent yours routine and with it also the spaces and activities to be carried out at home. Here are some ideas on the opportunities offered by numerous websites and databases that have expressed digital solidarity. In Italy, as in other areas of the planet.
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Digital solidarity
Following the declaration of pandemic from Covid-19, the Ministry for Technological Innovation and Digitization - with the support of the Agency for Digital Italy (AGID) - has launched an initiative to support businesses, workers and citizens.
The platform Digital Solidarity gathers a wide range of services that can be consulted and used free of charge, offered by numerous companies and public bodies. From the facilities for recording working hours in smart working to telephone company offers and licenses cloud for some bureaucratic requirements.
Education and culture they find support in the digital platforms made available for remote school lessons. Beyond the Channel, among other things, from 29.4.29, BBC offers educational programs in style. Free language courses, magazines and ebook in open-source, virtual visits to the most famous museums on the planet and much more.
University courses online
Coursera, one of the most important platforms of e-learning globally (MOOC Massive Open Online Courses), offers 3.800 university courses and 400 specializations of the most prestigious universities and companies, freely accessible and free (or for a fee, if you intend to obtain certification of attendance).
The universities who are now in the more than 200 countries affected by the new coronavirus can in turn register for free on the Coursera website to facilitate the management of lessons Online to the students.
Technical regulations on anti-Covid devices
UNI - the Italian National Unification Body, which represents Italy in the voluntary standardization activity conducted by ISO (International Standard Organization) and CEN (European Committee for Standardization) - participates in turn in the global network of solidarity.
The national standards, i.e. the reference standards for the certification of devices essential to the prevention of COVID-19 contagion (masks and respirators, gloves and protective goggles, surgical clothing and drapes) are now accessible to all, on the website of the Body.
Public and private operators, as well as individual citizens, will thus be able to verify in detail the safety and quality requirements, as well as the test methods to which the devices subject to certification are subjected. Valuable information for purchasing the necessary PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) a guarantee safety at work.
Environment and Third Sector
Legambiente participates in the #iorestoacasa campaign and is included in the Digital Solidarity platform. The association promotes on the site iorestoacasa.legambiente.it a series of insights, videos, eco-film club, ideas and games for children, museum tours, ecology and philosophy courses.
We activate positive energies is a free training and webinar series launched by Productions from below (in collaboration with Banca Etica, Assimoco Group and Etica SGR) with a focus on the Third Sector. The non-profit that expresses itself with profusion between volunteering, ., cultural associations, cognitive work, art and training, event organization, social enterprises and cooperatives.
Amnesty International it also offers a series of courses, available in different languages, on issues related to the defense of human rights.
Audiobooks at will
Distract your eyes from reading without giving up his pleasure is possible thanks to audiobooks, which are available on several websites. Numerous texts can be found on the websites of:
- Rai Play Radio, Rai Radio 3 - Out loud, for contents in Italian,
- Vox. A rich online catalog of classic audio books in English, within the site Internet Archive (where you can find numerous other multimedia contents, mainly USA),
- Lit2Go, audio books in English, mostly the great classics, often accompanied by the written text, with the possibility of choosing also based on their readability.
A dip in history and art
The World Digital Library - a project by the US Library of Congress with the support of UNESCO - provides 19.147 articles on 193 countries around the world, from 8000 BC onwards. Manuscripts, maps, newspapers, books, newspapers, films, photographs, sound archives.
Numerous museums they have worked to offer the opportunity for virtual visits, including accompanied ones, and consultation of the catalogs of the works. Among others, the following should be noted:
- Brera Art Gallery, Milan
- Uffizi Gallery, Florence
- Vatican Museums, Rome
- Musée du Louvre, Paris
- The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
- National Archaeological Museum, Athens
- Prado Museum, Madrid
- The British Museum, London
- Guggenheim Museums (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, on the cover)
- The Metropolitan Museum, New York.
The wonders of the ancient world and nature are also visible in pixel thanks to new features of Google Maps. From Petra in Jordan, to the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, coral reefs and canyons, the cheapest trips are just a click away.
Art and cinema
The Venice Biennale joins the #iorestoacasa campaign with a variety of artistic content you add to your site and social channels. With a virtual project Educational aimed at students and teachers, through Espaitec's.
Rai Play and ARTE, the European cultural channel in six languages, in turn offer a lot of content, including through documentaries.
The Cineteca di Milano then it makes available to lovers of cinematographic history over 500 titles of rare film materials.
Marina De Nobili and Dario Dongo
Graduated in law in Trento, she follows a master's degree in food law at Roma Tre. She is passionate about food and wine, she is between culture and tradition.
Dario Dongo, lawyer and journalist, PhD in international food law, founder of WIISE (FARE - GIFT - Food Times) and Égalité.
