Imagine if those without smartphones could have all of the Apps4Africa apps in the palm of their hands plus all of the other apps that organizations and governments are developing! Masawa makes this possible. Masawa is a foldering system on java-enabled phones (2.5B in the world) that allows users all over the world to have a whole suite of applications at their disposal, like an app store for the poor. So instead of just having one health app in Malawi or one agriculture app in Niger, user can have them both plus much more.
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Virtual Assembly Point
Virtual Assembly Point is Crisis Management System that will help the Emergency Response Department to know and evaluate a tragedy before they reach the location of the tragedy.from the Virtual Assembly Point, the rescue team will be able to get manifesto, sort people according to their needs, set priorities according to the ground data, pull individual records for accountability purpose and plan for and manage the available resources properly.
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Virtual Assembly Point
Virtual Assembly Point is a Crisis Management System that will help the emergency responses departments to have ground information before they get to the actual crisis location.with the information that the Virtual Assembly Point will provide, the rescue crew will be able to get manifestos,sort people according to needs, set different priorities and plan for and manage their resources properly.
It is mobile base because most of the functions are done on the mobile phone and the web section is for the rescue team.
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VIEWING Ushahidi maps on mobile phone
From a participant at an event I attended recently:
- Make an app that lets phones view and navigate Ushahidi maps easily. The phones should support feature phones, not just smartphones (and something beyond location-based text alerts). Could be a java app, or a website that is more easily browsed from a feature phone.
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_easilyUssd
USSD is available on all cellphones yet one can't find as many apps as one can think should be. USSD gateways are hard(very) to acquire. The solution suggested is a shared, street-affordable gateway where -
-developer with idea for an app downloads the _easilyUssd SDK.
-App is designed and developed on the devkit
-App is submitted to _easilyUssd where its vetted for practicality
-If it passes it gets hosted and the app is assigned a '*000*1234#'-type address.
-The app's address can then be distributed via sms, wap, etc.
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