Information saves lives

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Claim: community-based SMS reporting detects outbreaks earlier and enables earlier response, demonstrated by an open-source MVP deployed in Somalia and used by Somali Red Crescent volunteers. Built with event‑sourced CQRS architecture (.NET Core, Angular, MongoDB) running on Azure AKS with Kafka and plans for gRPC/sto, plus field SMS gateways (Raspberry Pi / Cisco) for unreliable networks. Results: pilots after two codeathons (40 and 56 participants), ~55 contributors, 60 forks, 2,000+ commits; prior outbreaks cited: Sierra Leone 22,000+ cases, Somalia 80,000 cases 1,100 deaths.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 11:00Doing good things
3. 12:01The big bets
4. 24:45Code-evenings
5. 28:11Core Team
6. 29:30Contributions
7. 44:17Discoveries
8. 49:04Room for improvements
9. 53:01Code evenings
10. 53:51Codeathon 3.0
11. 55:17Get in touch

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