Getting Your Water Bill through SMS and Much More

October 23, 2011 - 10:27 -- jsnider3
Summary: 

The main solution we have allows you to receive your water bill through a text message. We also have some other solutions to deal with other problems a water utility might face.

Why we are working on this problem: 

So that customers can receive their water bill without clogging up the customer support lines of the water company.

What we accomplished during the event: 

We created multiple solutions during the event:

*The most important was a SMS service that allows you to get your water bill through text messages and was designed to work with the customer database of the Botswana Water Utility Corporation

*The second was a wiki where customers could post problems or breaks with the water supply that could then be resolved with

*The third was a series of quizzes that allow the user to test their knowledge about Water in Africa and Global Warming.

*The last is just a barebones website to hold the above together.

Next steps: 

The current wiki we have should be replaced with the free and opensource mediawiki which lets you run wikis on your own servers as opposed to hosting it on the editthis.info website.

Community help: 

It would be great to get our SMS program into the hands of the Botswana Water Utility Corporation, whose database it was designed to work with.

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The code can also be gotten from code.google.com/p/smsbotswana/

jsnider3 Oct 23, 2011

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