This page is for debriefing on the key discussions and outputs of the OpenLMIS Community Meeting
Meeting details: November 18, 19, & 20th Protea Hotel by Marriott, Balalaika Standton Johannesburg, South Africa
OpenLMIS Sponsorship: OpenLMIS Core funding was available to sponsor OpenLMIS partners and implementers to be represented at this meeting; this information was circulated to OpenLMIS stakeholders transparently via community channels. Details are below regarding which meeting participants were sponsored with community funds.
Meeting objectives
- Empower the OpenLMIS community to guide the decision-making process for the OpenLMIS Future State
- Solicit community input regarding next steps to shape the 'future state' of OpenLMIS; explore the options discuss fears, weigh pros/cons, gauge desired partner engagement
- Collaboratively map out goals and priorities for the coming year
- Determine critical elements of OpenLMIS to be maintained in the Future State
- What functions do we see as essential? What processes could be changed or improved in the future state?
- Learn about how OpenLMIS is being implemented currently
- Presentations and sharing of lessons learned from current implementers
- Discuss how current implementations could be affected by our transition to the future state
Community Meeting Attendees:
(In order Left to Right, starting with the back row. Josh Zamor, Guarav Bhattacharya, Satish Choudry, Matthew Kumboyo, Sierra Petrosky, Christine Lenihan, Ashraf Islam, Sebastian Brudzinski, Wes Brown, Momad
Megji, Akinsola Fadeyi, Carl Fourie, Brandon Bowersox Johnson, Kelly Hamblin, Rebecca Alban, Dercio Duvane. Not pictured: Emily Bancroft, Edward Wilson, Lindabeth Doby)
Overview of sustainability sessions and outputs
A copy of the full detailed agenda and participant list is available here
Title & presenter/s | Session Objective/s | Session Materials | Key outputs and or/decisions made by the community | |
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Day 1 | OpenLMIS Sustainability Project Overview Facilitator: Kim Couri (Resonance) | -Review where we are today re: sustainability research -Review results of OpenLMIS Partner Engagement Survey -overview of Future State options for consideration; including review prototype for private health -Reactions/Q&A | Reviewed research to date and 3 options on the table: Results of OpenLMIS Partner Engagement Survey show most positive reactions for Option 2: Partnership to Handover | |
Day 1 | Presentations by IQVIA Steven Harsono, head of public health for IQVIA | Introduce concept of OpenLMIS/IQVIA partnership-how would each party benefit? what are some considerations for how we would shape the partnership? Reactions/Q&A | IQVIA-OpenLMIS Concept 6 Nov 2019.pdf | Summary of Feedback from Meeting Participants: -How would a commercial and core version of OpenLMIS relate to eachother? Would one feed the other? Commercial version fund core? -Strong desire to continue supporting implementations -It is up to us to guide the approach and determine what is important to us -Need to find a way to manage data concerns re: privacy & data ownership - |
Day 2 | Presentation by Mezzanine, Dale Sandberg | Introduce Mezzanine as a company, their model of work, and how OpenLMIS & Mezzanine could potentially work together Reactions/Q&A | Summary of Feedback from Meeting Participants: (to insert) | |
Day 2 | Identification of Community Priorities Facilitator: Rebecca | No matter what future path is chosen, we recognize that there will be a need to change from the status quo. This small group exercise was designed to create consensus around what the community thinks is most important to retain, versus aspects that are negotiable. Clarification on these points this will be important when we engage in negotiations with any future partner | Process for this session: 4 small groups listed priority topics that they felt were important to retain. Then the large group went around to the different flipcharts and placed colored votes to indicate which points they agree or disagree with. Green votes indicate agree, yellow is tentative, and red indicated disagree | Feedback from this session is divided into 4 topical groups. The main takeaway points with community consensus (indicated by number of green votes) are listed below:
2. Partner & Community:
3. Current & Future Implementations:
4. Explanatory phase for future state:
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Day 3 | Definition of priorities for 2020 'Exploratory Phase' Facilitator: Brandon Bowersox Johnson |
Overview of Learning Sessions and materials
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Day 2 | Lessons Learned from the OpenLMIS Implementation in Angola (SIGLOFA) Presenter: Dercio Duvane | Share implementation milestones from Angola; as well as highlight challenges and insights from the ground |
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Day 3 | Key Considerations for supporting an OpenLMIS Implementation Presenter: Matthew Kumboyo | Share perspective from Malawi implementation v3 and overview of post-deployment tech support |
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Day 3 | Product Catalog Management Tool (PCMT) Presenters: Brandon Bowersox Johnson & Josh Zamor | Provide an overview of a new open source tool (PCMT); and highlight how it |
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