April 16, 2019

Monthly OpenLMIS Governance Committee Call. This meeting includes members of the governance committee, as well as anyone else interested in participating.

Time

7:00 - 8:00 AM PST - Seattle
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST - New York, DC
3:00 PM CET - Geneva, Copenhagen (4PM during daylight saving time of the year)
5:00 PM EAT - Dar (6PM during daylight saving time of the year)

Call Details

**Updated link for April 16th meeting: https://zoom.us/j/649472878

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Meeting ID: 649 472 878

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Action items for next call 14 May 2019

Action Items from March Governance

Rebecca and others to finalize Trusted Partner Declaration of community principles
Conduct a vote regarding Empower joining the OpenLMIS Community as a Trusted Partner
Schedule a separate meeting on May 7th for the Gov committee to work with Resonance
Rebecca to share her 'Getting Started' Guide in discourse and solicit feedback

Notes

Topic	Who	Notes
Introductions and Call opening Notes from March Governance call March Notes	Carl Leitner
Trusted Partner Update	Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)	Welcome to Empower School of Health to the OpenLMIS Community! Their primary points of contact for their involvement with OpenLMIS are: Professor Paul Lalvani, Director Empower School of Health (Governance committee representative) Sachin Jagtap (Governance/Product committee) Siddharth Srivastava (Produce Committee)
OpenLMIS Representation in the Digital Health Atlas	Carl Leitner and Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)	https://digitalhealthatlas.org/en/-/ There is a map that stakeholders can scan to see what digital health technologies are being used in each country. The current projects in OpenLMIS are here. Linkages to the Global Good Guide Book (Carl Leitner to describe) Consensus needed on who the contact/focal person for each implementation should be. How is it being used? Donors want to know a foot print of a solution (how scaled is it). Additionally if anyone wants to learn more about the solution, they will want a contact which can provide that information. Option 1) Each implementing organization is listed as the contact. If we have each implementing organization serve as the point person, we want a way to say they are all OpenLMIS. Option 2) We list info@openlmis.org as the contact, so inquiries come to the Community Manager. If we have info@openlmis.org be the point for each implementation, we will need a way to keep it updated (right now we don’t know all the information about the scale of the solution in each country. VOTE
Trello Board- Country Opportunity Review	Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)	Reflections or additional information re: Zimbabwe RFP: SolDevelp, VR, and CHAI were not selected. What can we learn from this? Who was selected? What can we do as a community to make these RFP submissions easier, especially given the quick turnaround time? Tools? Ex: sample implementation plan, budget templates. * This potentially would be only for Trusted Partners to use*
Different model of supporting implementations? This idea was raised at the previous meeting, for continued discussion. Some ideas included: Idea (Brandon): Should we develop a 1 week 'bootcamp' training to support geographies where we have no trusted partners on the ground? Idea (Brian T): How can we ensure there are better RFPs? Should we create a donor resource and publish a document outlining what we would want to see in an RFP, like an RFP Checklist? This can be shared with donors and might help ensure future RFPs are better aligned. Who else can we involve in this process? This aligns with the Donor Investment Principles (5- strengthen donor tech skills). Lets think about what the right platform is Reflection (Kaleb) What are our overarching goals? Market-share? Market presence? less countries/more people? this will help us to define our strategy to define our 'package of services'. We want to make sure to maintain our reputation and undermine brand perception of quality of OpenLMIS	All
Concept Note for OpenLMIS Study Tour Funding	Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)	presentation of revised draft concept note for OpenLMIS Study Tours to governance for feedback Document is open to governance committee members to leave comments until April 26th, after which point I will incorporate comments and finalize process Process Overview: Review Criteria Summary: Trusted Partner Hosts Current level of engagement and contributions to OpenLMIS community Demonstrated technical knowledge of OpenLMIS system Demonstrated understanding of the OpenLMIS implementation process, challenges, and recommended best practices Existing relationship with relevant digital health decision makers/stakeholders in country Ability to support an implementation for the Interested Party The extent to which the pair of two Trusted Partners complement each other’s knowledge (Why will they work well together? Will one learn from the other? What is the value added for having both?) Other? ‘Interested Party’ in Applying Country Demonstration of interest in OpenLMIS as a national solution, or upgrading an existing OpenLMIS implementation to an expanded feature set. They should be able to describe that there is buy-in for this idea Articulation of the funding source(s) for a potential OpenLMIS implementation, and if possible, rough estimate of funds available Understanding of OpenLMIS v3 features Willingness to use some of own funds for the visit Clear articulation of Study Tour objectives and intended outcomes Other? Next steps:
Placeholder: Resonance	Resonance Team	Update from Resonance Team May 7th meeting- to be rescheduled Discuss options for deeper engagement with governance committee Slides presented by Resonance:
Post 3.6 software (tentative)	Wesley Brown	What do folks want to see/prioritize? Idea suggested in Product Committee: to review previous RFPs to pull out what is being requested by funders- should that guide us?
Interoperability	Carl Leitner	What is our strategy for interoperability?- DC&A, Product Registry strategy for fostering connections with other orgs: for example: TransIT link to documentation in 3.5 about interoperability what will be impactful for the countries we work in? high level strategic discussion
Conferences and Meetings Conferences provide the community the opportunity for OpenLMIS members to speak or represent the OpenLMIS software and community in public forum.	All	Conferences DHIS2 Symposium April 10-11, Washington DC Carl Leitner and possibly other community members to represent OpenLMIS ICT4D April 30 – May 3 2019 in Kampala, Uganda Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) and Wesley Brown to attend- will have an exhibitors booth Maguette Thioro Ndong from Digital Square is presenting: Adapting Global Standards to improve Supply Chain in Health domain Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference July 10-11, 2019 in Kigali, Rwanda
Opportunities Roundtable Definitions to use shared terminology: Implementation opportunity: an opportunity for an implementation or deployment of the OpenLMIS software. Usually this is done at a national or sub-national level within a ministry of health. This can also include feature work which would be done within the implementation and contributed back to the global codebase. Community opportunity: a funding opportunity to support an organization or individual to work directly on the global codebase and/or administrate the community processes. This may include funding specific features on the community roadmap.	Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)	Country implementation opportunities: This Trello table is being updated on an ongoing basis; to help the core team to track and manage implementation opportunities, but also provides a detailed snapshot of the scope and status of current implementation opportunities for stakeholders. Community Opportunities: Machine Learning assets with Google- utility of AI for predicting facility consumption. Licensing questions being investigated with help of DIAL Data Collection and Analysis https://wiki.digitalsquare.io/index.php/Data_Collection_and_Analysis Discussions with Pharmaccess re: contributing to digital marketplace for pharmaceuticals -/wiki/spaces/OP/pages/493715868 Possible collaboration with Manta Ray Media on Gates proposal for NTDs- /wiki/spaces/OP/pages/509052192
Active Trusted Partner outreach		Want to leverage our donor perspective to strategically be courting and selecting new partners
AOB
Community and Product Updates
Product Updates
Community Updates

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