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RapidFTR - Background & Introduction

RapidFTR is a mobile (Android) application and database system that lets aid workers collect and share information about children in emergency situations, so they can be reunited with their families. This process, called Family Tracing and Reunification (FTR), has so far been done using paper forms. The RapidFTR project initially came out of an "ITP":http://itp.nyu.edu class called Design for UNICEF, taught by Clay Shirky. It is now in active development with help from volunteers from "ThoughtWorks":http://thoughtworks.com and the open source community.

RapidFTR as an application has both a mobile and a web interface. A mobile phone will be used by field workers to register preliminary information about the children. Additional actions can also be done through the mobile when new information is collected on the field. The web application will be used to enter additional information through further conversations with the children and share information across multiple centers.

The web application is on Ruby on Rails stack and the current mobile application is on Android platform.

Learn More about RapidFTR

Visit the project website: "http://rapidftr.com":http://rapidftr.com
Follow "@rapidftr":http://twitter.com/rapidftr on Twitter
Subscribe to "RapidFTR on Youtube (Channel name: Admin RapidFTR)":http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg7YJsutKeFElI-8yBgXzLw
Read RapidFTR Blogs

"Humanitarian Innovation Blog":http://www.humanitarianinnovation.org/blog/1431
"RapidFTR Blog":http://rapidftr.com/blog

How can you Contribute ?

You can contribute towards RapidFTR through a variety of roles - Developers, Quality Analysts, Business Analysts, UI/UX / Web Designers, Documentation Specialists and more.

Click "here to learn more":https://github.com/rapidftr/RapidFTR/wiki/How-can-you-help-RapidFTR-%3F

How to get started

Look up Work Items in Mingle - RapidFTR's Requirements repository "Learn how to use":https://github.com/rapidftr/RapidFTR/wiki/Mingle-for-RapidFTR Mingle for RapidFTR (includes How to create a mingle account + sign-up for a work-item/story)
Join Mailing List - Prospective and active contributors should join the "RapidFTR Google Group":http://groups.google.com/group/rapidftr
Discuss & Collaborate - Join us in "IRC":https://github.com/rapidftr/RapidFTR/wiki/RapidFTR-IRC
Look up Tools being used
"Set up your workstation for development":https://github.com/rapidftr/RapidFTR/wiki#setting-up-your-workstation-for-development (For Technical Contributions)
Check out source code : There are 2 seperate code repositories for web & mobile app "Web App Github Repository":https://github.com/rapidftr/RapidFTR and "Mobile App Github Repository":https://github.com/rapidftr/RapidFTR---Android
Use Guidelines for Contributing to RapidFTR - (For Technical Contributions)