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Summary

Problem solved

The openIMIS platform, with its comprehensive but vast documentation, presents a challenge for users trying to find specific information. An AI chatbot will address this by serving as an interactive and intelligent layer on top of the existing knowledge base. This initiative is a collaborative effort between the developers' committee and the broader openIMIS community to create a more accessible and user-friendly platform.

Advantages

• Improved Information Access and Efficiency: An AI chatbot streamlines the process of finding information. Users can ask questions in natural language and receive immediate, relevant answers, eliminating the need to manually search through extensive documentation. This increased efficiency allows community members and developers to focus on more strategic tasks.

• Enhanced User Experience: The chatbot will provide a conversational and personalized way to interact with the openIMIS knowledge base. It can guide users through processes, answer frequently asked questions, and even help troubleshoot common issues, leading to higher user satisfaction.

• 24/7 Availability and Support: Unlike human support, an AI chatbot is available around the clock to assist users from different time zones. This ensures that help is always accessible, which is crucial for a global community like openIMIS.

• Scalability and Cost-Effectiveness: AI chatbots can handle multiple queries simultaneously, providing consistent support even as the user base grows. By automating responses to routine questions, the chatbot can reduce the workload on support teams.

• Continuous Learning and Improvement: The AI chatbot can be designed to learn from user interactions, continuously improving the accuracy and relevance of its responses over time. By analyzing the questions asked, it can also help identify gaps in the existing documentation.

• Fostering a Collaborative Knowledge Hub: This tool has the potential to transform how the community interacts with its collective knowledge. It can become a central point for not only retrieving information but also for contributing to and refining the knowledge base.

Additional Reading

This idea can involve leveraging technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to ensure the chatbot provides responses that are not only generated by AI but are grounded in the verified openIMIS documentation.

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Piloting steps:

Objective

To develop a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) based chatbot powered by open-source tools to help users resolve queries related to openIMIS documentation, processes, and troubleshooting , available via web-based frontend and API.

Key Features

• Load .pdf, .md, .txt documentation

• Chunk and embed using MiniLM + FAISS vector storage

• Natural language question-answering with FLAN-T5

• API for integration with external systems

• Web chatbot frontend for users (Gradio/Bot UI)

System Architecture

Open

chatbot architecture for knowledge management in openIMIS

Software Requirements (Pilot)