Your crisis news, still readable on a bad connection.
During a disaster there is often still some mobile internet, but it is slow and unreliable. Think 2G, not 5G, and the masts that still work are overloaded. People can get online, just barely. Official websites are rarely built for that. They load large images, videos, fonts and scripts, so the page with the one thing people need, where to get water or which roads are closed, never finishes loading.
Infolite keeps a fast, text-only copy of your news and announcements at a fixed address. It updates itself from your website, it loads in seconds on the weakest connection, and it stays online even if your own website goes down.
What residents see
The same news, twice, on a phone with a poor connection. On the left the usual website, still loading. On the right the Infolite copy: the messages, the time of each one, and when the page was last updated.
The usual website
14:322G
www.example-region.nl
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The Infolite copy
14:322G
info.example-region.nl
Example Safety Region
Last updated: today, 14:32
Westdorp: boil tap water before drinking it
Shelter open at the sports hall in Oosthaven
Dyke road closed between Westdorp and Zuidwijk
Power cut in the north, repairs under way
Weak connection? This page is under 10 kB.
An example. The organisation, the address and the messages are fictional.
Text only: no images, video, fonts, scripts or trackers
Every message with its time, newest first
A "last updated" line, so people know it is current
Large, plain type that reads well on any phone
Small enough to load on 2G
Also readable on old phones and basic browsers
How it works for your organisation
We point Infolite at your website. You tell us which pages matter, such as news, announcements and crisis updates. Nothing needs to be installed, and your website stays exactly as it is.
It reads your website like a visitor does. At a fixed interval, for example every quarter of an hour, it fetches those pages and keeps only the text, the headings, the times and the links.
It publishes a light copy. The result is a plain page at a fixed address. You publish on your own website as usual, and the copy follows by itself.
You announce the address in advance. Because the address never changes, it can go in your crisis plans, on your website, in leaflets and in messages to residents long before anything happens.
It stays up when your website does not. The copy is served from several locations, separate from your own hosting and network. If your website goes down, the most recent version of the news stays readable.
Who it is for
Any organisation that has to keep the public informed when things go wrong.
Safety Regions
Crisis communication
Updates during a flood, a large fire or a long power cut, readable in the area that is hit hardest.
Municipalities
Local news and help
Where the shelters are, where to get water and food, which roads are closed, and who to call.
Utilities
Water, power, gas
Outage notices and advice, such as boiling tap water, that people need to read right away.
Setting it up and running it
Quick to set up. We have built Infolite several times and know how it works. Every website is a little different, so we test the copy against yours and tune it until it reads well.
No work on your side. No software to install and no new way of publishing. Your team keeps working the way it already does.
Cheap to run. Plain text takes very little storage, bandwidth or server power, so the running costs stay low, even when many people look at the same moment.
Independent and European. Infolite runs on European servers, outside your own systems, and is run by a nonprofit. It adds no trackers.
Want to see what your own website looks like as an Infolite copy? Send us its address and we will show you.
About
Infolite is one of our own services. We are Stichting Elemental (the Elemental Foundation), a Dutch nonprofit that builds software and digital infrastructure that keeps working when things go wrong. See also ZeroComms, which keeps crisis information available on site when the internet drops out altogether.