The Coronavirus pandemic is not only spreading rapidly, but also quickly revolutionizing the way we work around the world. The most impacted dimension is definitely technological. In the space of a couple of weeks, the need to activate effective, fast and secure responses has arisen to enable thousands of workers to remote working, with personal devices or from home, with private connections, with different bandwidth capabilities and uneven architectural solutions.

Always more frail elderly people are followed by the e-Care service: since March 10th, upon recommendation by the Local Health Authority, the Municipality and the Metropolitan Territorial Socio-Health Conference, the e-Care service has been strengthened to cope with the COVID-19 emergency.

"Good morning, how are you? Compared to usual, how are you feeling? Do you have someone who can help you in case of need?" These are just some of the questions that every day the volunteers of the Italian Red Cross and Croce Italia ask, by telephone, to frail elderly people of Bologna, women and men living alone, particularly isolated in these days of Coronavirus. 

Bologna - More e-learning in schools in Emilia-Romagna. In these weeks of forced suspension of lessons due to the Coronavirus emergency, the e-learning mode represents an opportunity to maintain an educational relationship with the school. A "virtual classroom" in which everyone will be connected from home.

Over the last few years there has been a growing attention to innovative welfare policies and services, in order to try to provide effective answers to the emergence of new forms of economic, cultural and social inequality on the one hand, and to a demographic scenario in great transformation on the other, as the recent ISTAT survey on 2019 demographic indicators clearly shows.

The procedure for the definition of an Unlimited Licensing Agreement between Lepida and Oracle has been successfully concluded. The agreement provides, for Lepida and all its Partner Bodies, with the exception of the Universities, a deployment model for the Oracle Enterprise software, in all its components, with unlimited licensing.

On February 5th, the H2020 project COSIE organized a seminar in Utrecht, at the University of Applied Sciences, to deepen the experiences of co-creation in public services.

Since December 19^th, 2019, the certifications obtained by Lepida - ISO 9001 (quality management system) and ISO/IEC 27001 (information security management system) - include all personnel, locations, processes and services of the organisation.

The LepidaID mobile application by Lepida, already available on Google Play Store by early October 2019, is now also available on the Apple APP Store from the end of December 2019. It is a simple and essential APP for the generation of the temporary security code (the so-called OTP: One-Time Password) which is required to any SPID LepidaID digital identity, in order to access services that are bound by a two-factor identification.