This video was recorded at ElixirConf EU Virtual 2020 - https://www.elixirconf.eu/ More great virtual tech conferences - https://codesync.global --- Building an emergency software with Phoenix & Elixir by Linda Achieng Otieno and Sigu Magwa ABSTRACT Nailinda is a medical emergency software in Kenya that does not require the internet to send and receive messages and emergency requests. We use USSD to communicate, capture the request, process it and send the message to the receiver or give a response to the sender - it all depends on the content of the message. The receiver is also prompted to give a response, which we capture, process and send back to the initial sender. All this has been built with Phoenix and Elixir, we have used APIs to enable the capturing of the USSD responses. --- THE SPEAKER - Linda Achieng Otieno and Sigu Magwa Linda is a Ruby and Elixir software developer. She actively works with both languages, Ruby for her official job and Elixir for the project Nailinda. She has been actively writing code for 3yrs now. She is also a mum to a cheeky 2yrs old. Sigu is the Founder and CTO at Podii - a software company based in Kisumu Kenya. Previously worked remotely as a coach and software developer at the Swedish based company Craft Academy. He has been working with Ruby for a while but now deeply in love and recently got married to Elixir. A founding member of the elixir community in Kenya --- ElixirConf EU Website: https://www.elixirconf.eu/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElixirConfEU