WeAreDevelopers Logo WeAreDevelopers
Sign in
For You LIVE
World Congress 2023 • Aug 11, 2023

Bringing digital education to refugee and host communities in remote regions of Africa

Phil Helliwell

How do you build a fault-tolerant, multilingual educational platform for remote refugee camps without reliable internet? Discover the offline-first architecture powered by Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, and CSS logical properties.

Starting at 9:38 · Watch from the beginning

Bringing digital education to refugee and host communities in remote regions of Africa thumbnail

Checking access…

Playback and chapters load privately for Free videos.

Matching moments

5:47 min

Deploying a progressive web app during crisis response

Nico Martin · LIVE

4:41 min

Overcoming adversity through technical education and community

Zaid Zaim Zaid Zaim · World Congress 2022

2:12 min

Expanding team diversity through refugee coding programs

Stefan Lingler Stefan Lingler +1 · Coffee With Developers

2:27 min

Fostering inclusive global developer communities through outreach

Jen Looper Jen Looper · Europe 2026 Virtual

3:02 min

Developer questions on offline editors and application scaling

Eli Holderness · World Congress 2022

3:08 min

Discovering offline-first as a distributed systems problem

Aaditya Binod Yadav Aaditya Binod Yadav · Europe 2026 Virtual

More from World Congress 2023

The year 3000, a brief history of Web Development thumbnail
25:30

The year 3000, a brief history of Web Development

Lorenzo Pieri

Demografie nutzen um jedem Bewerber das passende Angebot zu machen! thumbnail
8:52

Demografie nutzen um jedem Bewerber das passende Angebot zu machen!

Nathalie Gierth

Passwordless future: WebAuthn and Passkeys in practice thumbnail
32:32

Passwordless future: WebAuthn and Passkeys in practice

Clemens Hübner · inovex

External Secrets Operator: the secrets management toolbox for self-sufficient teams thumbnail
30:07

External Secrets Operator: the secrets management toolbox for self-sufficient teams

Moritz Johner

Building Reliable Serverless Applications with AWS CDK and Testing thumbnail
25:18

Building Reliable Serverless Applications with AWS CDK and Testing

Raphael Manke

Fifty Shades of Kubernetes Autoscaling thumbnail
30:26

Fifty Shades of Kubernetes Autoscaling

Mario-Leander Reimer

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Open session

ULTRON: Your Agent Has No Hands - Real-Time Voice, MCP, and Ten Phones on Stage

  • Sagar Tamang

    Two Spoon Technologies

    AI Engineer

Open session

Bypassing the GPU Tax: Smart Layer-7 Routing with Small Language Models (SLMs)

  • Sagar Utekar

    CrowdStrike

    SRE

Open session

Designing for Every Direction: Logical CSS for Global, Adaptive, and Effortlessly Reversible UIs

  • Vidhya Krishnamoorthy

    Morgan Stanley

    VP, Software Engineering Manager

Open session

From Monolith to Phases: Restructuring Terraform Deployments That Work in Any Cloud

  • Naveen Kumar Kalapala

    Infosys Ltd

    Lead Cloud Engineer

Open session

Build a Zero-Cost AI Agent in Your Browser

  • Aishwarya Mathuria

    Adobe

    Computer Scientist

  • Nishant Thakur

    Adobe

    Senior Computer Scientist

Open session

We Deleted Our Observability Stack and Rebuilt It with OTEL: 12 Engineers to 4 at 20K+ clusters

  • Yash Sharma

    DigitalOcean

    Developer Advocate

  • Sreeram Venkitesh

    DigitalOcean

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Kapil Gautam

    Digitalocean

    Software Engineer II

Related videos

Transforming Education: A Journey from interactive Markdown to Remote-Labs thumbnail
30:03

Transforming Education: A Journey from interactive Markdown to Remote-Labs

André Dietrich · TU Bergakademie Freiberg

World Congress · 2024

Unlocking the potential of Digital & IT at Vodafone thumbnail
30:56

Unlocking the potential of Digital & IT at Vodafone

Ulrich Irnich · Vodafone

World Congress · 2023

Offline-First Engineering for Disaster-Ready Applications thumbnail
46:02

Offline-First Engineering for Disaster-Ready Applications

Aaditya Binod Yadav · Nep Brain Lab

Europe Virtual · 2026

Hacking AI at the Edge of the Indian Ocean thumbnail
29:03

Hacking AI at the Edge of the Indian Ocean

Anastasiia Stefanska +1

World Congress Europe · 2026

Reducing Cognitive Overload Through Platform Engineering thumbnail
31:04

Reducing Cognitive Overload Through Platform Engineering

Llywelyn Griffith-Swain

World Congress · 2023

Local Candidates vs International Talent - Building the Very Best Dev Team thumbnail
20:01

Local Candidates vs International Talent - Building the Very Best Dev Team

Mark Schaub · Tunga

World Congress · 2024

Related articles

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.