by Rebecca Alban, OpenLMIS Community Manager; originally posted on ICTWorks OpenLMIS is looking toward the future. After launching in 2012 in two countries, OpenLMIS has grown to serve over 11,000 health facilities across 9 African countries. Now our vision is only getting bigger; as we embark on a new partnership with Vitalliance. OpenLMIS was founded on […]
Read moreRebecca Alban, OpenLMIS Community Manager For almost a decade the OpenLMIS software has been supporting governments in low-to middle income countries to manage their health supply chains and reduce stockouts of medicines at health facilities. As the leading digital supply chain solution in low- and middle-income countries, OpenLMIS owes much of its enduring success to […]
Read morePosted by: Rebecca Alban, OpenLMIS Community Manager The sustainability of public goods has long been an issue — it shows up everywhere from reversing the impacts of climate change, to agricultural subsidies and even the U.S. postal service. In the global development space, there are dozens of examples of technologies that were created – and […]
Read moreData Visibility in the time of COVID-19 During this unprecedented time of COVID-19 the OpenLMIS core team is heavily focused on supporting countries to optimize OpenLMIS to support national and international COVID response efforts. Over the next 6-12 months visibility and accuracy of supply chain data will be more important than ever- specifically reporting consumption […]
Read more(content source: Global Fund website) We have exciting news to share! The Global Fund and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance have published new guidance to support countries with the planning the selection, acquisition and deployment of new logistics management information system (LMIS) software. We are delighted to report that this guidance identifies OpenLMIS as an off-the-shelf […]
Read moreAs OpenLMIS continues to grow into new geographies, the community continues to collect tools, lessons learned, and guidance from our global community of implementers. We have recently collected a new batch of materials and updated them to be included in our ever-growing OpenLMIS Implementers Toolkit. Check out our updated toolkit for some exciting new guidance […]
Read moreThe OpenLMIS Community is excited to announce the 3.7.0 release of OpenLMIS! It is another major milestone in the version 3 re-architecture that allows more functionality to be shared among the community of OpenLMIS implementers. A collaborative process to solicit input from our OpenLMIS Community partners was used to ultimately decide which new features would […]
Read moreRebecca Alban, OpenLMIS Community Manager Every year the OpenLMIS Community takes the opportunity to bring together OpenLMIS donors, implementers, technology partners, and other thought partners to reflect on the successes and challenges of the past 12 months, and strategize for the coming year. It is an important time for reflection. We aim to learn from […]
Read moreAuthor: Rebecca Alban (OpenLMIS Community Manager) OpenLMIS believes in an open source software development philosophy of ‘shared investment, and shared benefit’ whereby our community of global users are linked through a core code base, and enhancements made by one country can be accessed and used by anyone in the community. To achieve this vision, the […]
Read moreOpenLMIS is excited to announce it’s inclusion in the recently released Global Goods Guidebook, compiled by Digital Square. The Global Goods Guidebook showcases emergent and established global goods that are approved for investment through Digital Square. By better coordinating the development of digital health global goods, such as those presented in the guidebook, stakeholders involved […]
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