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Digital Square Notice C

https://proposals.digitalsquare.io/notice-c/details

Announcement C0: Global Good Software Development and Support

Digital Square is accepting proposals for investments in existing digital health software tools to support progress against the Global Goods Maturity Model.  Investments funded through this call for proposals will support existing global goods to ensure they are properly resourced.  

To be eligible for funding through Notice C, your global good must meet the following criteria:

  • Existing software that has been deployed in three or more low or middle income countries.
  • Be a global public good.  Software tools will be considered a global public good if either:
  • The source code is made available under Open Source Initiative approved software license; or
  • The software is freely accessible and adheres to the Open Definition for access to data.
  • Software has been applied to a health domain.

Examples of investments that will be made available through this call for proposals include (but are not limited to):

  • Supporting the development of significant new functionality of a digital health software tool according to an identified and well-articulated need.
  • Providing ongoing support for software maintenance of a digital health software tool;
  • Supporting the community and ecosystem of resources (improved documentation, tutorials, etc.) needed to facilitate the adoption and use of a digital health software tool;
  • Supporting ongoing development of features of a digital health software tool which are identified as priorities through existing robust community lead processes;
  • Supporting the establishment of an organizational home for a digital health software tool; and
  • Adding new features to enable different business models which broaden the revenue base of a digital health software tool.

Currently, $800,000 of funding has been identified from which several awards are expected to be made.   

Timeline

 Concept notes due

 Proposals due

 Awards announced

DIAL Strategic Grants

Main informational page: http://www.osc.dial.community/grants.html

Funding

  • For as many as 5 grant awards, DIAL anticipates providing up to $900,000 USD total and up to 480 hours total of complementary in-kind technical assistance through participation in the Open Source Center program.
  • This award is expected to span six months of project activity, with an option to extend.
  • Examples of the types of technical assistance services available through the Open Source Center can be found here: http://www.osc.dial.community/services-details.html.
  • The duration of any grant award under this solicitation is expected to be no longer than 12 months.
  • The estimated start date of grants awarded under this solicitation is August 3, 2018. 

Timeline

  • Issuance Date:  
  • Applications Due:   at 5:00pm EST
  • Awards Announced: First week of August (Subject to Change)


Islamic Development Bank 

Science, Technology, and Innovation Transform Fund (IsDB-STIF)

Guidelines: https://s3.amazonaws.com/skipsolabs_ladec/frontend/challenge/Guidelines%20for%20the%20Application_English_114d.pdf

Application link: https://www.isdb-engage.org/en/challenge/call-for-innovation-via-transform-fund

Applications due by  

Potential ideas based on the project categories:

  1. Proof of concept ($50K-$100k)
    • Senegal or Cameroon if they wanted to pilot any features of OpenLMIS or support a POC of integrating with OpenSRP or LoMIS
  1. Scale up of successfully piloted project interventions in a MC of the Bank or assisted Muslim communities in a non-member country, which involve innovative technologies/solutions and in need for additional funding to replicate and/or scale up the projects in other MCs, especially in LDMCs. Such candidates are eligible for up to US$ 300,000 “equity participation by the bank”  
    • Benin upgrade of OpenLMIS and integration with LoMIS
    • Mozambique scale up of OpenLMIS (but would need it to be complementary to the current approach/funding)
    • Guinea upgrade to OpenLMIS version 3 
  1. Commercialization of technology up to $1M “equity participation by the bank”
    • OpenLMIS core to build out SaaS or PaaS offering (following the sustainability work)
RHSC Innovation Fund New round of Innovation Fund funding

To be released in June

 informational webinar

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8720713094238940931?utm_source=General+Mailing+list&utm_campaign=8cee7802e7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_369e195f25-8cee7802e7-

Tech Forward Innovation Awards

$10,000k awards

https://techforwardconference.org/technology-innovation-awards-2018/?utm_campaign=Tech%20Forward%202018&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=63653024&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8uEuu10bzZS9JJvljJfV1EE1ULQZjkACW2l3C0La1JFRTA8v_08wBo5TYm6FGW5yPlshcIpI0brsuP1M_bzaEVgTCUNieFjqVrA_jOh8SgArQ6TUw&_hsmi=63652736

DIAL Open Source Center small grants

Submitted on  

Next round to be announced  

Money would be awarded in end of June early August.

  • Tentative in-scope topics include more "dirty jobs" (like last time), plus GDPR-style privacy/data protection work, and UI/UX improvements
  • Approx. $25k
  • http://www.osc.dial.community/grants.html
  • Can only select 1 category (out of 3): Dirty Jobs, User Privacy and Responsible Data, Improving User Experience 

Discussed potential ideas

  • Idea 1: User Guide (maybe CHAI would be interested)
  • Idea 2: Independent data Security Analysis
  • Idea 3: Technology backlog
    • improving test coverage
    • improving performance
  • Idea 4: Upload tool for configuration (maybe JSI would be interested)

Questions for Michael: 

What is the timeline for spending the money? 

Todo: need to come up with a way for the open-source community to vote or weigh in on what proposal we put forth. See below for notes.

Notes: Other open source communities have a process for overall community voting. Within that, some organization or person will write the proposal and receive the funding on behalf of the Community. At the end of that there should be Community feedback - we achieved what we set out to do. 

Tentative process for community involvement in ideas and voting

(which needs to be written up)

  • Use Jira for process / use voting mechanism
    • By X date, submit proposals 
  • Share 3 brainstormed ideas that the Core team has developed
  • Ask if Product or Technical members would like to respond with a project 
  • Keep period open for a certain amount of time (1 week) 
  • Core team can do some individual outreach to organizations (ie. JSI, CHAI) to suggest/request proposals 
  • If no responses, or in conjunction with another org, core team moves forward with submitting a proposal 

Next steps:

  •  Josh Zamor Generic 1 page on mechanism, how we communicate it out, guidelines for proposing something new - post on wiki and let Tenly Snow (Deactivated) know where they are
  •  Josh Zamor Write Tech Backlog ticket and create DIAL label in Jira Populate 3 ideas in Jira - use tickets and a label (DIAL) 
  •  Tenly Snow (Deactivated) Forum post - Date by which a proposal needs to be posted, voted on, who submits will be on a case by case basis (working with Tenly as community manager) 
  •  Tenly Snow (Deactivated) to contact Michael about timeline for spending
  •  Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) can talk to Satish about proposing a user guide and to Elias/Ashraf about potentially proposing an upload tool for configuration
Digital Square

Notice B Announcement - https://open-proposals.ucsf.edu/digital-square/notice-b

OpenLMIS proposal for Community engagement: https://open-proposals.ucsf.edu/digital-square/notice-b/proposal/14296

Status: Awarded on 3/31/18

Contact Tenly Snow (Deactivated) with questions. 

Conferences


Event, DateInfoAttending

OpenHIE Community Meeting 

Arusha, Tanzania

July 31-Aug 4

https://wiki.ohie.org/display/resources/2018+OpenHIE+Community+Meeting

Brandon Bowersox-Johnson may attend 


Health and Humanitarian Logistics (HHL)

Dubai

July 25-2717 & 18 


Tenly Snow (Deactivated) attending - presenting a poster, oral presentation, panel, and workshop

Chris Opit (Unlicensed) also attending

Global Health Supply Chain Summit (GHSCS) (date not yet announced)



Global Digital Health Forum (December)

TechNet-21 (date not yet announced)



ICT4D Conference

Lusaka

May 8-10


Ona

Matt Berg (Unlicensed)

Clay Crosby (Unlicensed)

GS1 Regional Healthcare Conference

https://www.gs1.org/healthcare/articles/2376/regional-gs1-healthcare-conference-addis-ababa-ethiopia-8-10-may-2018




May 8-10

Josh Zamor

Trip report forthcoming

Transform Africa Summit 2018

http://www.transformafricasummit.org/

May 7-10


Community attendees? 

RHSC Annual Meeting

Brussels

March 20-22









DHIS2 Symposium

Washington, D.C.

March 22-23

OpenLMIS presentation for the Symposium will repurpose the Lab session abstract that was presented at the 2017 GDHF. The session will be presented with Nicola and Steffen from BAO Systems. 

Tenly Snow (Deactivated)

Trip report: 2018 DHIS2 Symposium

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