Chapter Fifteen Case: Coronavirus Collaboration In late 2019, the world experienced a new type of infectious...

   

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Chapter Fifteen Case: Coronavirus Collaboration In late 2019, the world experienced a new type of infectious disease, the novel coronavirus COVID-19. COVID-19 causes respiratory problems with symptoms ranging from a dry cough and fever to diffi- culty breathing requiring hospitalization. As COVID-19 spread across the world, many nations were forced to shut down their economies and order citizens to stay at home and shelter in place. Suddenly and without notice, customers stopped eating out, riding public transportation, and traveling for work or leisure, and simply disappeared. The economic impact of this nasty virus will be felt for many years as small and large businesses struggle to operate in a world where customers are scarce. One innovative young man refused to allow COVID-19 to keep him from collaborating with the world. Avi Schiffmann, a 17-year-old from Washington State, launched his own website (ncov2019. live) using data from the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to report the movement of COVID-19. Since launching his website, Avi has received over 100 million visitors, quickly catapulting the young genius to technical stardom. On his website, Avi scraped the data from several different sources and then displayed the numbers of current cases, new cases, and deaths in simple, easy-to-understand tables divided by continent, nation, and states. The website updates every minute and has quickly become a reputable phenomenon for people around the globe. Avi was not the only one looking to help disseminate information during the crisis. Businesses, schools, and governments were all looking for a way to collaborate online. Thankfully, the demand for video and chat software was not new as online schools and work-from-home policies were already being implemented and supported worldwide. Individuals who had never worked from home sud- denly found themselves needing to chat from anywhere, host meetings with participants around the globe, port classes from physical environments to online, and share files. Several technological com- panies helped solve the problem by offering their online collaboration tools for free, including Micro- soft's Teams, Google GSuite, Zoom, and Slack. how would you 1. Why would a company offer its application for free during a crisis such as COVID-19? 2. Explain the four characteristics of Business 2.0? Chapter Fifteen Case: Coronavirus Collaboration In late 2019, the world experienced a new type of infectious disease, the novel coronavirus COVID-19. COVID-19 causes respiratory problems with symptoms ranging from a dry cough and fever to diffi- culty breathing requiring hospitalization. As COVID-19 spread across the world, many nations were forced to shut down their economies and order citizens to stay at home and shelter in place. Suddenly and without notice, customers stopped eating out, riding public transportation, and traveling for work or leisure, and simply disappeared. The economic impact of this nasty virus will be felt for many years as small and large businesses struggle to operate in a world where customers are scarce. One innovative young man refused to allow COVID-19 to keep him from collaborating with the world. Avi Schiffmann, a 17-year-old from Washington State, launched his own website (ncov2019. live) using data from the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to report the movement of COVID-19. Since launching his website, Avi has received over 100 million visitors, quickly catapulting the young genius to technical stardom. On his website, Avi scraped the data from several different sources and then displayed the numbers of current cases, new cases, and deaths in simple, easy-to-understand tables divided by continent, nation, and states. The website updates every minute and has quickly become a reputable phenomenon for people around the globe. Avi was not the only one looking to help disseminate information during the crisis. Businesses, schools, and governments were all looking for a way to collaborate online. Thankfully, the demand for video and chat software was not new as online schools and work-from-home policies were already being implemented and supported worldwide. Individuals who had never worked from home sud- denly found themselves needing to chat from anywhere, host meetings with participants around the globe, port classes from physical environments to online, and share files. Several technological com- panies helped solve the problem by offering their online collaboration tools for free, including Micro- soft's Teams, Google GSuite, Zoom, and Slack. how would you 1. Why would a company offer its application for free during a crisis such as COVID-19? 2. Explain the four characteristics of Business 2.0?