January 17, 2017

Will take some time to get the roadmaps public

Initial draft from Brian shared with the Product committee today

Gap analysis update

Zambia gap analysis review

Chris Wright

Gap analysis - fundamentally there were some generalities going on that the team heard when they were in country. Specific feedback that couldn't be generalized. The feeling from both Zambia and TZ was that the gap analysis as written wasn't reflective of the true picture of what is really going on in each country. Still some issues. Will require more work and analysis to see how far down into the details we want to go. Info from key informants on reporting, assumptions on how supply chain works in Zanzibar, some details still need to be fleshed out and worked on. All these comments listed in the doc. Knew it would be an iterative process.

Jake Watson (Deactivated) We are reviewing and will come back shortly with responses.

BAA contract status

Conversations with Jake on Friday. We don't need a contract initially. Thanks to Chris, Wendy, Alpha, team on the TZ side. PATH will be following up with them shortly to get work items on the functionality and the functional requirement kit. We will look to utilize Wendy and Chris as subject matter experts. We'll go through and put that documentation on the Product Committee.

Next steps: Following up with JSI. Chris Wright as primary POC.

Chris to follow up on MOH Master Facility List (MFL)

Jake Watson (Deactivated) We're really just looking for the structure of the facility list - we don't necessarily need all the data

Brian Taliesin OpenHIE. Have data from INSTEDD. They have the data structure and model. Using care services discovery.

Brian can also follow up and support.

Hoping to get the sub-agreement in place with JSI.

Chris Wright - was drafting a SOW, needs Ashraf's help on that. Want to wrap that up. Vidya and Rachel will be reaching out to Chris to talk about process and general timeline. Meeting with Kaleb last week, saw an email from him as well.

Lakshmi is changing her role, may not be supporting supply chain any more. Guarav will start attending while they look for a suitable replacement to attend. Lakshmi has done a lot of work to help flesh out the stock management stories.

Governance charter & voting structure

See Governance Committee Charter (Archive)

Who's going to represent the organizations? Voting structure?

Kaleb Brownlow (Deactivated) Good to have something on paper. Moving more toward a standardized process. Equal votes sounds good. See that there's a UN security council idea - any 'no' vote can stop an issue.

Discussion on major changes and cost implications - Product, Technical, would present recommendations to Governance - major change. Some will have a major cost element. Slightly different process? Money is coming principally from USAID & Gates who could theoretically be vetoed under the current voting structure.

Budget scoring? LOE? Good for donors to be able to see that in order to prioritize and evaluate different recommendations.

Overall - like where we're going. Build in some kind of self-evaluation in six months time, late this year. Including membership.

Question: How would the Governance committee relate to the Business Development sustainability work? Separate group, but is the Governance committee another point to advise, consult, inform? Or review proposals that come out of different options? How to link the Governance committee & the other workstreams.

Lindabeth Doby Lots of thoughts, will let us know.

Jake Watson (Deactivated) In terms of Governance or biz dev workstream, there needs to be reporting back to the Governance committee, if there's a market then OpenLMIS would form its own entity and replacing the Governance committee would be a board of directors - Gates and USAID representation. Charter is a good exercise because any kind of entity would have a much more formal charter. Represents the BOD more or less.

Mattias Wiklund (Unlicensed) A few times in the last months, haven't been able to be involved. The concept of the biz dev workstream is new to me, not sure how that would work into the structure of the community, or talk with folks who have been more involved. Representation, echo the sentiment to have something on paper to react to. We have a number of people involved from JSI - want to make sure that we're representing everyone's opinion. Discuss internally.

Chris Wright In general looks great. Kaleb brought attention to the voting structure - UN security council rules may be onerous. Don't necessarily have a better way. One person can object and can block and change everything.

Gaurav Bhattacharya (Unlicensed) Did this draw on experiences from other groups?

Kaleb Brownlow (Deactivated) Approval responsibilities. First three make sense. But for the fourth, how would the proposal approval actually work? Guinea for example. Make a pitch? USAID talks about the pitch? Need to flesh this out