Digital Team Austria to support SMEs

This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of UN Member States against the COVID-19 pandemic along with other digital government initiatives and provide a preliminary analysis of their main features. These cases are shared for exchange of information so that Member States can learn from each other and possibly create new partnerships.

The Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs launched the initiative “Digital Team Austria” in order to support SMEs in meeting the requirements for digital and mobile working in times of the Corona crisis. The Digital Team Austria is a cooperation of companies from the digitization sector offering digital services to SME free of charge for at least three months. The package includes the provision of video conferencing tools, Office licenses and security solutions for home office as well as businesses.

Country

Austria

Institution

Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW) in co-operation with partners from the digital economy