Opportunities

VillageReach submitted a proposal in response to RFP #PSM-MOZ-RFP-007 Mozambique SIGLUS Technical Assessment for OpenLMIS v3 Upgrade on April 25, 2018 and submitted a 'best and final' proposal on May 30, 2018. As of June 18, 2018, VillageReach is optimistic that Chemonics is preparing contract documents to move ahead with this engagement.

VillageReach's proposal includes some mobile software development support from both Ona and ThoughtWorks. The scope of the proposal is an assessment, not including any software development activities, but we sought out technical support because the scope does include creating detailed specifications and recommending work plans for software development activities.

Note: The opportunity to upgrade SIGLUS in Mozambique may also dovetail with the opportunity to upgrade SELV (the Vaccine/EPI instance of OpenLMIS in Mozambique) by trying to align with other funders and projects including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

VillageReach and JSI are continuing a dialogue with Chemonics about a possible scope of work for a first preparatory phase of an implementation of OpenLMIS v3. VillageReach previously contributed to a Readiness Assessment, and there are a number of areas to address to lay the groundwork for a successful implementation.

Update 18/June/2018: VillageReach is partnering with JSI to help support this SOW. We have come to agreement with Chemonics on a final SOW and specific deliverables, and now are working on finalizing budgets and trip planning to move towards contract signing.

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 31 Jul 2018 

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)

To be released in June

15 May 2018 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-

$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

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

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. 

(see Angola in RFI table above)

VillageReach

JSI

GHSC-PSM

There are aspects to the conversations VillageReach has been part of in DRC:

• Trip from DRC to Malawi
  • VillageReach with support from Olivier Defawe has interest from DRC stakeholders to visit the working OpenLMIS v3 implementation in Malawi. The core OpenLMIS team is working to coordinate this trip, working with Olivier and the VillageReach DRC office. 
    
    
• Potential Pilot implementation of OpenLMIS for EPI in DRC
  • Following conversations with DRC stakeholders, there is potentially interest and possible funding for a pilot of OpenLMIS for EPI in DRC. This may be a pilot in ~3-4 facilities, all in or near Kinshasa, using the system for 6-12 months. This would be a way to put the Vaccines v3 features to the test while also showing the product to non-EPI programs, encouraging a culture of data use, etc. The features used could include more transactional data, vaccine stock-based requisitions, and they could use the data in OpenLMIS for distribution planning (vaccines are a push/allocation-based process). All this would be explored at the start of the engagement. 
  • For the Pilot opportunity, VillageReach is open to collaboration with other OpenLMIS community members who have French-speaking staff in DRC to be part of this project.

VillageReach

Tenly Snow (Deactivated) to update

The Cote d'Ivoire MOH through the IHSC-TA project is exploring options for a stock management tool. The OpenLMIS community has been invited to present and demo the OpenLMIS stock management functionality for the MOH at the end of June. 

IBM

IHSC-TA

VillageReach

Ona

GHSC-PSM