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The challenge: Public health crises, such as disease outbreaks and famine most often occur where health systems and public health surveillance is weak. Emergencies, whether sudden or slow onset, increase people’s vulnerabilities to health risks – and infectious disease can quickly spread and cause life threatening outbreaks.
The solution: Community Based Surveillance (CBS) allows communities, volunteers and the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement to identify, alert and respond to emerging public health crisis before they spin out of control and cause excess death and illness.
For more information, take a look at this video.
| Projects | AppVeyor status (Windows) |
|---|---|
| Volunteer Reporting |  |
| Admin |  |
| User Management |  |
| Alert |  |
We are currently working on the MVP (minimum viable product) of CBS. At the moment there is a plague outbreak in Madagascar, with 57 deaths and more than 680 cases reported, and it keeps spreading. The sooner we can test CBS in the field, the more lives will be saved.
The MVP will enable:
- Data collectors in the field to report health events by SMS
- Data managers to view the incoming reports
Ideally, we wish to extend the MVP to also include the creation of "projects" and a way of defining and editing health events, but this will depend on how active our contributors are. Our main priority is getting the MVP tested in the field so that the Red Cross can identify and respond to outbreaks in an even more efficient manner.
We would love your help in taking CBS to the next level. Read more about how you can contribute and the different projects you can contribute to.
Our biggest shortage at the moment is designers and frond-end developers, but that does not mean we don't need your if you are a backend developer, project manager, tester, etc. Reach out to us if you're unsure about how your expertise can be of use to this project!
If you need help, please take a look at our documentation, or reach out to the core team with any questions.
- February 2nd, 2018. Digi.no: "Utviklere fra norsk IT-bransje jobber frivillig for Røde Kors for å lage løsning som kan redde liv"
- December 6th, 2017. Microsoft press release: "Recoding the Red Cross", "Koding hjelper Røde Kors redde liv"
- November 16th, 2017. NRK P2 Studio 2: "Helseapper"
- Telenor Norge: "Koder for en bedre klode"
- October 5th, 2017. Bistandsaktuelt: "Røde Kors-dugnad for å varsle epidemier – kan redde liv"
- September 12th, 2017. Digi.no: "Røde Kors i Norge med IT-prosjekt som kan redde liv: Nå inviterer de IT-bransjen til dugnad"