Zain collaborates with MOH to fight Coronavirus
Zain, a leading digital service provider
in Kuwait, announced its collaboration
with the Ministry of Health (MOH) to spread
medical awareness and contribute to the
ministry’s efforts in fighting Coronavirus
disease (COVID-19). This collaboration
comes as part of Zain’s commitment to
reflect the Kuwaiti private sector’s role
in shouldering the public sector for the
nation’s well-being.
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As part of this collaboration, Zain offers
its customers free calls to any of MOH’s
three hotlines; 24970967, 96049698 and
99048619. Customers can inquire about
any health or medical information related
to COVID-19 directly from the ministry’s
specialised team.
Zain also provided MOH with free bulk SMS
messages to send medical and awareness
content to the community during this period.
In addition, the company sent a number of
awareness messages in collaboration with
the ministry’s team through its official social
media channels. Zain also broadcast official
MOH awareness videos on Coronavirus
disease in seven languages: Tamil, Telugu,
Urdu, Farsi, Filipino, Bengali and Santhali.
Zain supplied all its kiosks and self-service
machines in all of Kuwait’s areas with
sanitisers and the company’s team
continuously and periodically sanitises all
machines to ensure the safety of customers.
Zain also notified all sales staff to wear
medical gloves, stop the use of biometric
devices and more.
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Nutanix partners with Udacity to offer hybrid
cloud nanodegree programme
Nutanix, a leader in enterprise
cloud computing, has
announced a partnership with
Udacity, the global online learning
platform, resulting in a new hybrid
cloud nanodegree programme.
This programme will enhance
learning opportunities in the
emerging cloud technologies market
that are essential for organisations
to uplevel their IT infrastructure. As
part of the collaboration, Nutanix
will also sponsor 5,000 scholarships
to help IT professionals advance
their knowledge with this initiative.
As more services move to the cloud, IT teams
require the knowledge and expertise it takes
to properly manage these infrastructures
that increasingly stretch across on-premises
and public cloud in a hybrid model. Although
hybrid cloud technology continues to grow
Wendy M Pfeiffer,
CIO at Nutanix
and evolve, educational opportunities in this
field remain at a standstill.
To fill this educational gap, Udacity
and Nutanix have collaborated closely
to develop a nanodegree programme
that will advance the
knowledge of seasoned
IT professionals. To
strengthen professional
development in this
space, the nanodegree
programme will cover
modern private cloud
infrastructure and
the design of hybrid
application deployment.
Udacity is opening
applications to the
Nutanix hybrid cloud
scholarship programme.
For the first phase of
the scholarship programme, Udacity will
select 5,000 applicants to participate in the
hybrid cloud fundamentals course. From
those 5,000 students, 500 high-performing
students will be awarded a full scholarship to
the hybrid cloud nanodegree programme.
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