The internet is very limited to almost non-existent in the majority of Congo. However, text or SMS messaging is possible.
FrontlineSMS is the backbone of the Ushadidi, a web based reporting tool. FrontlineSMS is the message component.
I am using FrontlineSMS while trying to explore its uses for general development, health care, medical, and education in Congo. FrontlineSMS will facilitate the SMS being used like the internet.
BBC NEWS Technology Web tool maps Congo conflict:
"A web-based reporting tool is allowing Africans caught up in political unrest to report incidents of killing, violence and displacement.
The website is called Ushahidi, which means ''testimony'' in Swahili and was first developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout.
Ushahidi is now being used in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to report on the war that has torn the country apart for the last 15 years.
Its goal is to create a simple way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.
The site is a free open-source mash-up which can be run by anybody, anywhere in the world to to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualise it on a map or timeline."
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