More than 100 startups in Portugal are helping fight COVID-19 and it's a model other countries can follow
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Amazon, Slack, and MailChimp have provided the group – which has been approached by governments and entrepreneurs around the world for advice – their services for free.More than 100 Portuguese tech startups have joined forces in an unprecedented effort to combat the novel coronavirus, recruiting thousands of volunteers from across the country and helping to coordinate the government response.
Within days of putting the word out, the newly formed action group recruited 120 startups and an army of more than 3,000 volunteers from within the Porto and Lisbon ecosystems. Although the Portuguese government was initially reluctant to usher the group into an active role, one project changed their minds within just days.
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