Dear CHT Community,
We are grateful to those who participated in the 2025 survey. Your thoughtful feedback is deeply appreciated and it provides direction as we look ahead of 2026.
Survey participation
We received 22 responses representing community members across a range of roles including: Ministry of Health Officials, Developers, Implementers, Academic Researchers and Community Health Workers.
This diversity of perspectives strengthens the quality of insights gathered.
Key quantitative highlights
The survey findings showed strong alignment with our community first vision and a high level of engagement.
- 86.4% are excited about being part of and contributing to the CHT (rating ≥4 out of 5).
- 80% indicated that they are likely to participate in community initiatives (rating ≥4 out of 5), this is a 5% decrease compared to the 2025 Q2 survey results.
- 86.3% feel their voice is heard within the community (rating ≥4 out of 5).
Which aspects of the community make you most excited: in your own words
Shared learning, collaborative development, solving challenges for users
The feeling that people within the community matter to one another and are willing to help, whether through formal volunteering or simple acts of kindness like holding doors or letting others into traffic. This mutual support system is a powerful element.
Identification of health issues at the grassroot and improving health literacy.
Community inclusion and openness.
Seeing CHT being used in the most remote regions of Africa such as Turkana county in Kenya. Connecting to and networking with health tech companies across Africa that are implementing CHT.
What should the community prioritize for 2026, the following themes were highlighted.
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Integrations and interoperability to solve real world problems
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Staying true to what is impactful for each deployment, figuring out the next generation of scalability
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Listening to CHWs and their needs, responsible AI introduction, eLearning opportunities, consider climate change impacts to rural healthcare, facility integrations, true TCO of implementing CHT (end to end, all of the costs - like a calculator)
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Consolidating goals and selection of projects to be worked on. Some projects get picked up and left midway.
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Improved documentation and learning resources.
Features, tools and resources community members would like to see
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Integrated dashboards.
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Form builder
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Dynamic forms
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Better way to calculate hosting costs and optimization of hosting resources
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Step by step implementation guides.
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Visual interface of workflow development.
Community open feedback - these are the candid reflections we received:
I see most emphasis and support is offered to organizational partnerships; wish more support was offered to individual contributors too, for example in terms of growth opportunities e.g. volunteering efforts (consultancy) to other projects/ deployments.
More demos from partners! fun to learn about their work
I have learned a lot from the CHT Community which has enabled me to participate in a Hedera Hackathon and also opened 3 job opportunities. Currently working on one(Open Data Ensemble). This shows the strength of Open Source Contributions embraced in the Community. Thanks to the CHT Community
Next steps
Over the coming months, we will:
- Use the insights to refine our 2026 priorities.
- Work with you to identify opportunities to improve contributor support, community coordination processes and CHT resources
- Continue fostering an inclusive, collaborative and impact driven community.
for your continued commitment and engagement with the CHT Community. As always, your voices are shaping what comes next. 