---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kambale Musavuli <kambale@friendsofthecongo.org> Date: Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 3:59 PM Subject: [liberationtech] COVID 19 app for D.R. Congo - Dev support needed To: lt@lists.liberationtech.org <lt@lists.liberationtech.org> Hello everyone. For years now, I’ve followed the list and have found it very informative especially around tools we can use in Africa. Today, I’m coming for support as the COVID-19 spread in my country may get out of control. I know all cases worldwide are important. I do hope that some of you may be able to help with the situation we have. We are a group of volunteer devs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo helping the ministry of telecommunications in having a platform to report cases in DRC faster than the John Hopkins API, mainly so that health workers can be updated on the live situation of the virus spread. Today we launched our website helping the ministry of telecommunications with contact tracing and sms notification. We are a group of about 5 techies trying to respond to a massive need of 80 million people. The specific help we need revolves around our code and other best practices for scenarios like ours (huge USSD users, WhatsApp and sms adoption all across the country, low internet penetration - below 10%) The site is live here: https://covid-19info.cd The code is here: Backend: https://github.com/devscast/covid19-backend Client: https://github.com/devscast/covid19-client SMS notifier: https://github.com/devscast/covid19-notifier 1. We hope that we can have any developer who has free time to join us in the expansion of the platform. This will be helpful for code review or also managing/creating issues on github. 2. We have used Ushaidi and smssync by them also before but we are not experts in setting it up properly for 80 million people. We are still waiting for telecoms support to give us a shortcode but for now we are using twilio with a US number since we are not able to use +243 on their platform. There are other issues to add but these are the main ones for now. If you are interested in helping us in this endeavor, feel free to contact me. Kambale -- "Nous ne sommes pas seuls. L’Afrique, l’Asie et les peuples libres et libérés de tous les coins du monde se trouveront toujours aux côtés de millions de Congolais" Watch Crisis in the Congo http://congojustice.org Kambale Musavuli <http://kambale.com/> National Spokesperson Friends of the Congo <http://friendsofthecongo.org/> 1629 K Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 Cell Phone: 646-571-8312 <(646)%20571-8312> Work Phone: 202-584-6512 <(202)%20584-6512> Linked In <http://www.linkedin.com/in/kambale> - Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/KambaleMusavuli> - Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/kambale> - Youtube <http://www.youtube.com/kambaletv> Break the Silence Speakers Tour

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