An important part of our new private sector partnership with Vitalliance is making sure our intellectual property (IP) parameters would work smoothly with our growing community and with the new partner’s proprietary software. We understood that choosing how to manage IP protects software investments, ensures contributors receive appropriate attribution and creates a clear basis for […]
Read more(COVID vaccination session in Malawi, photo by: Home Line Media) Now more than ever it is important for national health systems who are planning and deploying vaccination campaigns to be able to keep track of their COVID-19 vaccines. COVID-19 vaccines are currently among the most sought after health commodities in the world, and with extremely […]
Read moreby 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 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 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 moreThe OpenLMIS initiative is proud to announce the latest release of our software, OpenLMIS version 3.6. This release incorporates valuable feedback from OpenLMIS users, implementers, and global supply chain management experts. Our newest features aim to improve user experience, and specifically simplify processes related to ordering commodities and collating data for decision-making. 3.6 is a […]
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