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Ebola Response Anthropology Platform is anthropologists from all over the world to providing advice by email, calls and web-based dialogues by those working for NGOs, government and international agencies. The platform help to engage with socio-cultural and political dimensions of the Ebola outbreak and build locally-appropriate interventions. There are some resistances of local culture and external health system to control the Ebola outbreak. 

User can see six areas included Briefings and Guides, Background and Field Notes. When click into one of these sub-headings, you can see there are some case or news. Each title is obviously and the beginning of the papers, and user can see more information about it when click ‘Continue reading’. There are also tag under each case, and folders that the case sorted into. When click into the paper for more information, user also can download it as PDF. Besides, user can leave their information and comments under the reading.  In addition, there are also latest, opinion, news and tag could be read on the right side area. 

If there are too many users comments and write their opinion at the same time, then the system might be difficult the show all the information. Also there are a bit messy with too much tags. 

The platform is designed with several areas and different elements to offer audience a good visualized. It is within text, photos and symbols. Text are applied different fonts, colours, and size, which created a visualized information to audience. 

The website allow user to comments, opinion and notes, and these are show on the website as one kind of information. When user comment the paper and leave their information, then the system can collect the data and analyse as information.

The platform offer many functions to audiences. The platform offer different ways to help organisations to solve propblem, such as email, calling and website-based dialogues. They will give suggestions by following the actual case. This website platform offer a space for people to put more news and opnions for helping Ebola outbreak. There are lots of case and papers can be read on website, comments and opinion can be posted, and also ask a rapid response question. There are also six sub-heading are sorted as Identifying and Diagnosing Cases, Management of the Dead, Caring for Sick, Clinical Trials/Research, Preparedness and Communication and Engagement. There are also tag on each resources to help reading. On the left side, there are five symbols can easily link to Facebook, Twitter, Printing, email or share in other ways. In addition, there is a column on the right side showing the latest resource, opinion and news. 

Users enter to read cases, news, comments and ask questions. There are resources such as latest news, papers and photos offer users information. User could share the source and this website to Facebook, Twitter and other platforms.

The Ebola Response Anthropology Platform is funded by a grant which is from Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) Programme. It is overseeing, executed and managed by the Wellcome Trust and DFIF. As well as the platform is collaborate with other Ebola response anthropology initiatives, within Emergency Ebola Anthropology Network and francophone SHS Ebola Network. 

The website platform is collaborate with other Ebola response anthropology initiatives in US, Europe and West Africa. As well as, the Emergency Ebola Anthropology Network and the francophone SHS Ebola Network.  These networks support to uploading papers and resources onto the Platform. Besides, the Royal Anthropological Institute is their non-academic partner. 

Individual who care about the Ebola, organisations, and government might use the website platform. It could be doctors, academic, emergency staff, governmental agents and so on.