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In June 2021, Bluesquare started a project to implement openIMIS in Niger with funding from the Belgian Development Agency Enabel. The project aims to set up openIMIS for a health insurance scheme in two districts, Gaya and Gothèye. A first version of openIMIS was deployed under the legacy architecture and most of the…

The French-speaking community of openIMIS is now called Toumaï Community. The community lends its name from the seven million-year-old ‘Toumaï’ cranium, found in northern Chad in 2001. ‘Toumaï’ in Goran language means “hope of life.  As every community needs a good logo, we created one. Tell us what you think about the new…

In March 2021 the openIMIS initiative launched the French-speaking community of openIMIS. This community allows a share of experience and knowledge on openIMIS in French, with workshops on health insurance and social protection technologies organised every two weeks.  The first session on 25 May followed an agenda…

At the end of April, the Steering Group Meeting, organised by the openIMIS coordination desk, brought together 46 experts to learn about and engage with the openIMIS initiative.  Under the overall theme of "openIMIS - a global good in health financing and social protection" openIMIS partners, users and invited…

For five years, openIMIS has been connecting innovative people, information systems and digital technologies to bring universal health coverage and social protection closer to people around the world. What began as a management information system for a community health insurance scheme has evolved into an internationally…

During the month of March the community took place over three days spread across three consecutive weeks. The aim of this virtual community meeting was to bring together implementers, developers, user organisations, and partners of the openIMIS Initiative under three thematic blocks – community, product development, and…

openIMIS is turning five, let`s celebrate! Starting from April 2021 we are planning a variety of events and as part of the anniversary campaign, we would like to look back on what we have achieved throughout the years. Rather than just capturing technical advances and numbers related to the software, lets also focus on those…

The openIMIS coordination desk wishes the openIMIS community and all our newsletter recipients a happy and fruitful 2021! We are looking forward to the coming year and the exciting new opportunities that it brings to expand and improve the use of openIMIS. To start the year off on a good note…

Thanks to our community members and all partners of the openIMIS Initiative for another year of inspiring collaboration and bold achievements. Working together as a community, we established new implementations of openIMIS with the Social Security Fund in Nepal, PharmAccess in Zanzibar, and 2M Corp in…