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In 2014, when Sierra Leone was hit by the Ebola outbreak, three local software developers kept the country's infrastructure working by rewriting it to #FLOSS. They saved hundreds of thousands lives when companies like Google and IBM backed off, calling the project too risky.

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7561-how_open_source_software_second_hand_laptops_and_hackers_helped_stop_ebola_and_stopped_an_apocalypse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/30/software-developers-helped-end-ebola-epidemic-sierra-leone

And their own recollection of the events with some technical descriptions:

https://medium.com/idtlabs/how-open-source-software-helped-in-the-fight-against-ebola-788bb3ca2bf0