It is the aim to develop a tool that allows long distance wireless synchronization of comprehensive digital surveillance databases in remote areas of low-bandwidth connectivity and enhance global access to sustainability of outbreak response.

Single work steps include:

• Developing a novel low-bandwidth database synchronization (LBDS) technology,

• Developing an automated prioritization algorithms for minimal data synchronization,

• Integrating of both concepts into the Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS),

• Contributing to North-South and South-South knowledge transfer through stimulation of multi-centre open source development networks,

• Preparing of field testing of the LBDS technology in remote outbreak settings with low bandwidth connectivity in Africa,

• Development of a comprehensive Application Program Interface (API) of SORMAS for the District Health Information System (DHIS2)

• Establishing an infrastructure for coordination and quality control of multi-centre open source programming activities.

This project is part of the EDCTP2 programme supported by the European Union.