[liberationtech] COVID 19 app for D.R. Congo - Dev support needed

[Kambale Musavuli]

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
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