How Open Source Software, second hand laptops and hackers helped stop Ebola (and stopped an apocalyp

In the dark days of October 2014 an unprecedented Ebola epidemic wrecked havoc across Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. In Sierra Leone, the health system was only weeks away from total collapse due to an inability to manage or pay health workers across the country and the world braced for the unchecked spread of the disease throughout west Africa. In the face of apocalyptic scenario, a company made up of local hackers took on the unprecedented challenge of building, implementing and running a huge Management Information System and Mobile payments system to keep the health system from collapsing. This talk will show how this was achieved with Open Source Software, second hand laptops, hacked voter registration machines, second hand smartphones and some very smart and determined young people used to achieving great things with none of the resources we take for granted. We salute them.

Salton Arthur Massally, Harold Valentine Mac-Saidu, Francis Banguara, Emerson

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Salton Arthur Massally, Harold Valentine Mac-Saidu, Francis Banguara, Emerson
How Open Source Software, second hand laptops and hackers helped stop Ebola (and stopped an apocalypse).

But non the less we have mister Emerson who will be joining us and telling us today; about this...

Emerson: Hi everyone!

applaus

announcer: Ja, so please proceed

Emerson: Ok, god afternoon, wau, i hope your congress has been good so far

are you not to {??} or to tired;

ah, so today i'm talking along with my college in {?name of place?} if skype works, if the skype

from speekers: hello

Emerson: Hey, YES!!

Hey guys, make some noise, {??} are here allright awesome, so, right so,

today our talk is about whats-. why most standards we considered a miracle

ah, because ....

well here is the structure of the talk

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introduction: my name is Emerson {?tam?}, for six month between october 2014 and april 2015

i was the country coordinator for a {??} team of NGOs called NetHope

NetHope is a consortium of 32 of the largest NGOs which specializes on the consortium