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In his introduction to functionalities of the software and use cases, Saurav Bhattarai, described the initial challenge which scheme operators in low- and middle-income countries regularly face, when looking for an appropriate digital solution to support the implementation of a health financing or social protection scheme. Either they try to build their own system, but encounter technical limitations once complexities increase with further development of the scheme, or scheme operators attempt buying and customising commercial solutions, which grew inhibitive expensive with every subsequent update and maintenance needed.
This background was one of the motivations for SDC to turn to an open source approach for openIMIS, i.e. decide on a very open license (GNU AGPL v3 License as published by the Free Software Foundation, since 2018) which makes the software – for anyone - free to use, and modify.
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