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July/August 2025 Newsletter - RJ
openIMIS Newsletter July/August 2025
Welcome to our July/August 2025 newsletter! Many exciting things have happened that we want to call your attention to:
Latest Highlights
New article in the "Celebrating Women in Tech" series
New corporate design elements
Updates on "Learning Exchange on AI in Health…
Celebrating Women in Tech: Suravi Bhandary
This series of portraits celebrates women working with the openIMIS Initiative from across the world in diverse technical roles. Women make up less than a third of the global tech workforce, with even fewer women at senior levels. In line with BMZ’s Feminist Development Policy, openIMIS actively seeks to address this gender gap…
Burundi’s growing social protection system now runs on openIMIS
Merankabandi, Burundi’s national Cash for Jobs project, has started using a software solution powered by openIMIS to administer cash transfers and other social protection benefits to more than one million people. …
July Bhela: Configuration of Complex Health and Social Protection Products in openIMIS
The July 2025 Bhela meeting focused on configuring openIMIS for complex healthcare protocols and programs. George Atohmbom Yuh opened the session by explaining how openIMIS is adapted to specific country contexts - ensuring that the software accurately reflects national healthcare delivery processes and protocols. This…
Digital transformation: harnessing opportunities, mitigating risks
©Umong Shahi
In GIZ’s work on digital transformation, openIMIS plays an important role in making social protection systems more effective and accessible. As part of the Global Alliances for Social Protection program, openIMIS helps countries manage various social protection programs including health insurance - offering…
Celebrating Women in Tech: Simona Dobre
This series of portraits celebrates women working with the openIMIS Initiative from across the world in diverse technical roles. Women make up less than a third of the global tech workforce, with even fewer women at senior levels. In line with BMZ’s Feminist Development Policy, openIMIS actively seeks to address this gender gap…
openIMIS Newsletter May/June 2025
Welcome to our May/June 2025 newsletter! Many exciting things have happened that we want to call your attention to:
Upcoming Highlights
Upcoming Bhela Call on Women in Tech
Recent openIMIS Events
Recap: Community Connect
Recap: Stakeholder Committee Meeting
Recent Bhela Discussions on Communication and Dashboards…
Celebrando Mulheres na Tecnologia: Karolliny Nayra dos Santos Lima
Esta série de relatos celebra mulheres que atuam na Iniciativa openIMIS ao redor do mundo em funções técnicas diversas. As mulheres representam menos de um terço da força de trabalho global em tecnologia, com ainda menor presença em cargos mais altos. Em conformidade com a Política de Desenvolvimento Feminista do BMZ…
Community Connect 2025 - Summary
Day 1, Wednesday 14 May
The latest implementation updates
The openIMIS Community Connect meeting started with implementation updates from around the world. Andrea Martin of the World Bank and consultant Anthony Benoit presented on the implementation of CORE-MIS powered by openIMIS, which supports the operation of cash transfer…