[conspire] (forw) Interesting talk on open source being essential to the

[Rick Moen]

Greetings from south of Fanning Island, just north of the Equator.

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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 19:52:43 +1100
From: Andrew Worsley <amworsley at gmail.com>
To: Linux Users of Victoria <luv-main at luv.asn.au>
Subject: Interesting talk on open source being essential to the

Found this talk on open source use in Sierra Leone pretty interesting.
Sounds like it saved many lives.


Andrew


How Open Source Software, second hand laptops and hackers helped stop Ebola
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 "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. .."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ29t_6TS8w

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