Key Information
- Date: November 29th (to coordinate with the second day of the Global Health Supply Chain Summit)
- Where: Zambia (Lusaka); Raddison Blue Hotel
- Who: OpenLMIS community members; featured presentations by OpenLMIS Trusted Partner Organizations and sharing of OpenLMIS deployment experiences by two MoH staff from Malawi
- Major Themes: Bring together global health supply chain experts who are interested in learning more about the capabilities and functionalities of the OpenLMIS software; share OpenLMIS deployment experiences with the global health supply chain community; high level networking and fostering implementation opportunities
- Objective: The purpose of the event is for the Community and its trusted partners to 'pitch' OpenLMIS to an audience of invited MoH staff, donors, and other influential stakeholders, with the end goal of creating more implementation opportunities. We are sponsoring two MoH staff from Malawi to attend to showcase the Malawi implementation experience, in addition to other presentations. Promote OpenLMIS as a best in class open-source electronic logistics management information system (LMIS) that can be customized to meet the needs of health commodity supply chains.
- Type of event: It is going to be a smaller, closed lunch event (approximately 30-40 people)
- Outreach: we want to strategically target our invitations at folks who: 1) Are already planning to attend GHSC, and will not require sponsorship and; 2) Who have expressed interest in OpenLMIS and have the power/influence to encourage new implementations.
- Participants: Hosts: Core OpenLMIS staff, Trusted Partner representatives; Invited Guests: representatives from Ministries of Health, donor organizations, and other influential stakeholders
Here is the planning document
Here is the Save the Date
Draft Agenda
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Presentations from OpenLMIS Trusted Partners: JSI, Ona, Softworks, SolDevelo
Presentation from Malawi Ministry of Health: Dr Vuso Tembo & Mr. Ben Chilima
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Archived Planning notes
Below are ideas for a potential OpenLMIS community meeting in 2018.
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