How software developers helped end the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone
by Bethany Horne from on (#Z656)
A team of open source software developers solved the problem that most urgently needed solving: distributing wages to healthcare workers
Little known to the rest of the world, a team of open source software developers played a small but integral part in helping to stop the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone, solving a payroll crisis that was hindering the fight against the disease.
Emerson Tan from NetHope, a consortium of NGOs working in IT and development, told the tale at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany.