Notice C

Promoting the collaborative development of proposals for investments in digital health global goods

Upgrade the core technology of Connect for LifeTM to enable large-scale implementations in multiple disease areas and many geographies under an open source model

Notice C Opportunity: 
Announcement C0: Global Good Software Development and Support
Application Status: 
Approved - partially funded

Comments

Thank you for your concept note and we look forward to your full proposal.  Please be sure to list the documentation outputs you see coming out of this project, in order to improve packaging for Connect 4 Life to be more readily used by other partners.  To remain in scope for this funding, make this generalizable and use existing partnerships to test the usabiliyt of your tools.  Please also detail the outputs for Phase IV and how these will help future implementations.  Link your work to sustainability models for Connect 4 Life and include measures for success for the phases of your project.  As you state you are looking for partners, I suggest you reach out to Grameen Foundation to partner and see what of their tools you can adapt for this instance of MOTECH.  

Thank you for the comments. We will ensure to include your suggestions in our proposal.  

In addition to that, open-sourcing of the current code (1B) should be a priority before making the existing connections/transfering to other software (1A). In Phase 1B, it is unclear if you are only making the source code available only to the existing partners, or would it be generally open-sourced. Phase 4 is likely out of scope for a Digital Square proposal.

Additionally, What are the other potential partners besided BeeHyv? The proposal discusses how the tool can be reconfigured for different use cases outside of HIV - is this something that needs to be done by a software developer? As the backbone is MOTECH, can you discuss the currently supported interoperability standards from MOTECH that have been implemented in CfL? Are there others? As MOTECH is now being supported by Dimagi, we would suggest discussing potential collaborations with them.

It is our intention to make the source code of Connect for Life publicly accessible under an Open Source license. We aim to mature the platform to a truly global good that can be used by any organization to support patients, health care providers and other stakeholders. 

We are describing the process for customization and the interoperability in more detail in the full proposal.