✏️ CHT Community Meetup Notes

Community Community Calls
4

25 March 2025 Call

:globe_with_meridians: French interpretation available

  • Discussion about how to get started with the CHT. What is the experience for the first time contributors?
  • CHT Governance
    • Looking to learn what would be the best practices to incorporate in the community - how we nurture the community
    • How do encourage people to share? How do we give direction without being controlling?
    • There are many more use cases out there and the potential of the CHT is huge and the governance can help us to nurture that.
    • The CHT is a big tool and it can be challenging to navigate it. The documentation for the first time contributors is well structured, but it’s not easy to get it started. What skillsets are of advantage for the different squad? The description of issues are not clear what the issues are about.
    • Who should be in the governance? How many orgs should be in the governance?
    • What needs governed?
    • How are decisions made about what goes in the CHT Roadmap?
    • Examples: OpenHIE use working group for technical decisions. They also use steering committees to give direction to the working groups.
    • When we talk about governance, I think of three elements: vision, decision-making processes, and the impact of initiatives. Am I on the right track, or are there other dimensions to consider?
  • Discussion with a government who had a question about ownership. They don’t have the skills to keep the CHT deployment running at this point. How should we be positioning the CHT? Ease of manipulation by developers (as the CHT requires a bit of a challenge, compared to tools like DHIS2) What are the challenges of adoption?
    • The CHT is customizable, but not LCNC. It is easy to customize, but more challenging to contribute.
    • We are still far from LC. We are closer to LC than other technologies, but still not there.
  • Mobile Device Management
    • Many advantages to using MDM
    • Fundamental problem and barrier for deploying eCHIS at scale
    • Big problem within global digital health
    • Challenging to find affordable options
    • Tried to deploy https://h-mdm.com/ for a national deployment and face some challenges. The phones are not very powerful, not powerful CPU, just enough RAM, users noticed slowness on the devices.
    • Older forum discussion
    • Deployment using SureMDM
    • The discussion will continue on the Forum to identify more community members who are interested to participate in this conversation.
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