A team of open source software developers solved the problem that most urgently needed solving: distributing wages to healthcare workersLittle known to the rest of the world,a team of open source software developers played a small but integral part in helping to conclude the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone, solving a payroll crisis that was hindering the fight against the disease.
Emerson Tan from NetHope, and a consortium of NGOs working in IT and development,told the tale at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany.
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Source: theguardian.com