I.  What does Cell Alert/FrontlineSMS offer?

Cell Alert/FrontlineSMS empowers people in poor areas by providing alerts on anything they want to track. Whenever our online searches find useful information, we forward alerts alerts through cell phone or email that lets users act in response to humanitarian crises, genocide, economic aid, medical supplies, loans, and agricultural market trends.

II.  Our origins and development

Cell Alertâ„¢ was launched as a non-profit service as a response to difficulties encountered by refugees coming to the Washington D.C. area from many different African countries.

Kenya is experiencing a food shortage after politicians sold all the maize in the strategic grain reserves to neighbouring Sudan. The president, Mwai Kibaki has put an international appeal to the international community to donate food to the starving citizens.  

We have submited Agri Mashup for the DonateNow Mashup Challenge.

We are looking for AJAX programmers, they will help us implement mashup technologies for rural agri-enterprises .

Technical specifications:

Programming: Dojo AJAX

Databases supported: MySQL, PostgreSQL 

Spatial Databases supported: PostGIS, MySQL Spatial, ArcSDE

APIs supported: Google, Yahoo, Arc Web, Geonames, Open Streets, Network for Good (to be implemented)

Collaboration Tools: Drupal, Plone

Hosting Tools: ccHost

Mobile: SMS