Today in Global Small Business: Stimulus Measures Offered By Country Due to Coronavirus

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding its Think Big for Small Business (TBSB) program globally, to help small and minority-owned AWS Partners gain access to business, technical and marketing enablement support that can help scale their business, according to a statement from the company.
• Here is a list of what each country or region is doing relative to stimulus measures caused by the coronavirus to provide relief to those suffering from the pandemic.
• Quote of the week:  "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." – Socrates
• A roundup at how global small businesses are making a huge difference by supporting education.
• The problems plaguing small business owners seeking loans from the government’s revived small-business relief program have ranged from simple to shocking.
• Shadow I.T. includes the procurement and use of I.T. assets by a business unit or individual (e.g., user-developed applications) without the I.T. organization's knowledge or control.  Is it a technical problem?