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Getting Started as an Academic

Getting Started as an Academic

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Quick Start

  • Explore openIMIS: Familiarize yourself with the platform, its goals, and how it supports health financing.

  • Check incubator ideas: Review suggested research and development topics that can be taken up as academic projects.

  • Look at past projects: Learn from examples of how other academics have contributed to openIMIS.

  • Browse the literature: Access existing academic publications to understand the current evidence base.

  • Identify opportunities: Watch for funding calls, collaborations, or academic programs linked to openIMIS.

  • Get in touch: Use the Service Desk or community channels to propose ideas, ask questions, or start collaborating.

Summary

This page is a starting point for academics who want to engage with the openIMIS ecosystem. It outlines the different ways researchers, students, and faculty can get involved, from contributing to development and testing to exploring research collaborations. The page brings together:

  • Quick start guidance on how academics can participate.

  • Incubator ideas that suggest concrete project topics and research directions.

  • Opportunities for academics, including funding calls and collaboration prospects.

  • Examples of academic projects, both ongoing and past, to illustrate existing contributions.

  • A literature repository that collects academic publications related to openIMIS.

Overall, the page serves as a hub for academic engagement, providing inspiration, practical entry points, and references to deepen collaboration with the openIMIS community.

The openIMIS Value Chain for Academics

Development activities in the openIMIS community follow the openIMIS value chain: from the idea to the final product everything is documented in the wiki to allow a transparent workbench that allows community participation at all stages.

Incubator Ideas for Academia

  • Page:
    Idea: AI Chatbot for knowledge management — The core of this idea is to create and integrate an AI chatbot into the openIMIS ecosystem. This chatbot will act as a smart virtual assistant, capable of understanding and responding to user questions in natural language. It will be trained on the entirety of the openIMIS documentation, including guides, manuals, and community forum discussions. The primary goal is to empower users by providing them with a powerful tool to quickly find the information they need, thereby reducing dependency on support staff and fostering a more self-sufficient community.
  • Page:
    Idea: Frontend migration to Vite — Current frontend solution is using ReactJS that is not maintained. We should upgrade the frontend framework to Vite.
  • Page:
    Idea: OpenIMIS - current technology review and upgrade ideas — Recently, we’ve conducted a spike and review of current technology used in OpenIMIS in order to upgrade the most important things which are impactful for both system performance and teams effectiveness
  • Page:
    Idea: super admin user — Currently, it is not possible to have a user that has access to all functionalities and all data without configuring it. It is required to allow a specific user type as Super Admin with access to all openIMIS instance.
  • Page:
    Idea: FHIR: Search for patients — Currently it is not possible to search patients by name, age, gender or other criteria through the fhri api. Doing so would allow better search results for the openIMIS smartphone application when operating as enrollment officer.

This list was automatically created from existing pages with incubator ideas. If you are missing an idea in this list, make sure it is labelled as incubator-student. Explore more ideas in the incubator.

Opportunities for Academics

This list was automatically created from existing pages with oppertunities. If you are missing an idea in this list, make sure that it exists in the general list of opportunities and that it is labelled as opportunities-academic.

Academic Projects

 

This list was automatically created from existing project pages from the project portfolio. If you are missing an idea in this list, make sure it is labelled as project-student.

Literature about openIMIS

This list was automatically created from existing pages from the literature repository. If you are missing an article in this list, make sure it is labelled as literature-openimis.

For more articles about openIMIS, browse our press clippings.

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