· The collaboration aims to provide easy access to impactful
mobile technology solution
· Will offer data driven analytics to ensure community safety,
enhance relief efforts and business continuity in event of future pandemics
· Under #Tech4good initiative, will launch a ‘Human Care app’ to
reduce the pressure on frontline healthcare workers
HERE Technologies, a global leader in mapping and
location platform services, has today announced, its collaboration with UNL, a
global smart addressing platform to fuel the ongoing fight against COVID-19 and
future pandemics through location-based technology and services as part of their initiative under
the Human Unlimited #tech4good foundation.
The joint initiative is part of a shared vision to amplify the
use of technology to bring tangible and lasting benefits on a greater number of
people. Under the Human Unlimited foundation program, tech partners HERE and
UNL will provide the ‘Human Care app and platform’, an end-to-end solution for,
during and post COVID-19 as well as future pandemics.
Human Care
provides an infrastructure for a tech-driven shift to a new normal by
accelerating the information flow and collaboration between people,
governments, NGOs, and businesses to co-create safer public environments
powered by location and data.
Commenting on the announcement, Xander van der Heijden, CEO of
UNL, said: "We are building a global digital infrastructure to power the
future of human care and the transition towards the new
normal while
keeping the virus spread under control. With Human Care we leverage tech to
enable humans to be prepared for current and future pandemics or disasters. We
seek to connect, include, and support the ones in need. We start by giving
unique and verified addresses to 4 billion people without an address. Enabling
them to get access to essential services like emergency response or direct
relief. Leaving no one behind.”
With the Human Care App developed by UNL, users will be able to
self-monitor, communicate their symptoms with local governments and businesses
to bring transparency to new and developing cases based on geolocation. The
solution will, in future releases, provide a universal address to places,
enabling access for users via the app, to navigate and find important hubs like
hospitals, pop-up clinics and relief centers to receive help within proximity
of their location.
With lockdown easing up in many countries, government and
businesses alike need to find sustainable, seamless, and human-led approach to
resuming life and work outside the home, while tackling coronavirus risks. In
addition to the Human Care App, the solution provides an analytics dashboard
developed by HERE for governments, policy makers and businesses. The dashboard
can identify high risk areas and layer supplementary special datasets to
facilitate decision-making.
“To coordinate any wide
scale successful technology-led effort during a disaster event or a global
pandemic such as COVID-19, the insight from location can make all the
difference in access to critical care, the quality of service delivered and the
possibility of achieving a constructive outcome. Our collaboration with UNL is
in alignment with this philosophy and we are determined to leverage location
intelligence in the fight against this pandemic and other future outbreaks or
disasters. Together with UNL we hope to enable societies to make data-backed
technology interventions.” said Stanimira Koleva, Senior Vice President and
General Manager and SVP for Asia Pacific, HERE Technologies.
25 June 2020, India