On March 18 th, a meeting of the Guild of Digital Economy and Blockchain Technologies at the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry was held, where participants discussed options for the use of digital business solutions during the "coronavirus quarantine". They gave the first example of working in "extraordinary" conditions - the event was held remotely, online.
This applies to all the capital's enterprises and organizations - from tour operators, cafes and restaurants that are losing customers to numerous representatives of different industries that are transferring their employees to a remote mode of conducting business.
One of the few businesses, whose demand for services will grow in the current situation, are the IT-companies that help their customers to overcome this difficult transition.
The participants of the meeting showed solidarity and urged their colleagues "not to earn money at a feast during the plague", but to develop their companies’ offers for members of other Guilds of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the most painless reorganization of their businesses and adopting the transition to a new online mode of operation. They expressed their readiness to extend the test licenses and support their colleagues during the transition period, i.e. - to provide free versions for connections, while creating a unified and secure information space.
The Guild unequivocally enjoins its colleagues and other IT-companies to support this initiative, - said Mr. Artyom Dalevich, the MCCI’s Vice-President for Digital Development. Our member companies work in the market of digital products and technologies. Taking into account that the main clients of the companies included in the ITPG Digital Economy Guild are small businesses, the members of the ITPG community not only do not raise prices for vital digital products, but quite to the contrary, they do reduce them and give them free (or extend to those, who already have them) free trial periods of operation of online work technologies".
Today, the remote mode of operation does not necessarily mean the isolation of employees and entire companies - modern IT solutions allow to form a supporting environment for large-scale online events - conferences with full communication of participants, educational courses, exhibitions with virtual visits to the stands and "tours of production”.
A comfort for the majority of "reconstructing" companies can be the fact that a well-established remote work mode of employees can significantly reduce the cost of maintaining office space. In this regard, it is quite possible that current measures for the transition of businesses to the online mode will be an interesting experience that will "take root" in companies and will be successfully applied to the mitigation of the "corona virus" quarantine.