Thank you Amanda. As we are developing the proposal and going through the various elements we have a few key questions related to whether we are in scope and should proceed. 

First, the Global Good Maturity model seems to reflect health system informatics and excludes digital health aimed at improving patient care. WelTel is a digital health service that is aimed primarily at patient care, so is countries would use it as part of their patient care, not 'as part of their health information system'. We believe that improved patient care should come first, and that 'informatics/monitoring' follows. Cleary some of the work we intend for this is to link the patient care data into health systems data (EMRs/DHIS2), but the WelTel software itself is designed (and proved) to improve patient care and outcomes. Please clarify if we are in scope on this.

Second: despite the  PATH Digital Square definition: Use Open Standards, Open Data, Open Source, and Open Innovation

From: Digital principles: https://digitalprinciples.org/principle/use-open-standards-open-data-ope...

..What being “open” means for your initiative will depend on practical and technical constraints, security and privacy concerns, and the dynamics of the people and networks in your space. For example, to what extent your initiative uses open source software will depend on the needs identified for your context and an assessment of which of the available options best meets those needs, factoring in their total cost of ownership.

The Global Good Maturity model does not reflect this.

This primarily seems to examine the level of open source code access, rather than either global good or level of software maturity. WelTel did open source a prior version of code via Mozilla 2.0, but found that this was not necessarily conducive to effective quality maintenance, scalability, and sustainability. In the poor remote areas we work, 'communities of developers' do not exist, and to meet SDGs and help close the digital divide we need well packaged and supported software solutions that are well supported and with quality assurance that cannot be affordably acquired by open source code - nor can a sustainable business model. We are working through best 'good licensing practices', which may include some degree of open source (not likely WelTel SaaS code, but certainly other know-how and most data). The Global Good maturity model does not fit with what we know about scalability and sustainability, nor with Square's own (more flexible and appropriate) definition of "open" above. Please indicate if we are in scope on this.

Thank you!

Richard