@maciej shared a funding opportunity with the Wehubit programme that looks like a great fit for OpenMRS:
“The target group of this call for Proposals are non-profit or public organisations that want to diffuse and scale-up or replicate their own digital innovations linked to the subject of this call for Proposals. Innovation can be found in the proposed digital services or products (smart devices, remote sensing, etc.), as well as in the project design (combining tools in an innovative way, intelligent use of data, etc.)”
The funding available is between 50,000-350,000 Euros. Deadline for the first round concept note is July 5.
There are a couple of key requirements in the proposal guidelines related to applicants and geographic locations that we need to be aware of up front:
“The applicant(s) need to be from one of the countries of the Belgian bilateral development cooperation: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Palestine, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda.”
In order for us to pursue this, we would need to partner with an organization with a registered office in one of these countries. OpenMRS, Inc could not be an applicant or co-applicant, however, we could be listed as a contractor. So one option could be to form a consortium of organizations that work in several of these countries, rather than target a single country.
Some initial ideas about how we can use this funding:
- scale up the microfrontends, specific modules, or distributions that target countries may want to adopt and scale
- use a fellowship/mentorship model where the community identifies and engages fellows who mentor local developers/designers on the relevant technologies being scaled up
Other ideas around what we can scale up?
Suggestions about countries we might want to target as well as organizations who could serve as applicants and be a part of a consortium?
I’ve started a Google document with the concept note template that we can populate as we discuss.
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