Post by Nana Kwasi Asante

Dumsor is back, and the taps aren’t much better. So instead of complaining, we built something. It’s a crowdsourced outage tracker for Ghana, covering both power and water. Skip the wait for ECG or GWCL announcements that may never come and just check what your neighbours are reporting in real time. Open the app, log whether your lights are on and whether water is running, and you’re contributing to a live picture of the country. In under a day, we’ve already hit 1,500+ contributions across 80 zones in 5 regions. You also get average outage durations, zone-based ETAs for when things might come back, and official ECG and GWCL reports pulled in alongside the community data.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ None of this would exist without the crackers who built and stress-tested it from day one; Jerry Agbesi, Phillipa Bennett-Eghan, Brian Newton, Papa Yaw Agyeman-Gyekye, Ernest S., 𝐀𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐞𝐚, Kelvin Amoaba, Prince Kwabena Appiah Boadu, George Ohene-Adjei, Edem Akato. You know what you did. Give it a try and log your area’s status: https://odumsor.com/