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The initiative was formed as a joint effort by USP2030[1] members, governments, development partners, civil society and the private sector towards creating integrated and interoperable social protection information systems. It presents an open, transparent, and virtual community working to build a global consensus around standards and guidelines for social protection information systems. The initiative runs as part of a working group under USP2030 which is chaired by ILO and the World Bank.
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ILO: The use of openIMIS in Bangladesh and Pakistan started with the need to digitize and automate the existing employment injury and compensation schemes which were created after some major industrial accidents that injured several workers [2]. The system is now being expanded to cover workers within the "ready-made” garment industry. The goal is to provide a basis for the setting up of a universal employment injury scheme. Rodrigo Assumpcao refers to the example of Bangladesh’s LIMA software for labour inspection (run by the Ministry of Labour) to demonstrate the interoperability feature of openIMIS. openIMIS was connected to LIMA to get the data of registered enterprises (which are subjects to the inspections) instead of opting for the data that was provided by the ready-made garment association. This was in preparation for the expansion that was hoped for and the consolidation of data to one source for registered enterprises. Rodrigo Assumpcao concluded by saying “instead of building different databases to solve your immediate problems, try to contribute to the overall structure of the data environment or country of operation”.
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