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Celebrating Women in Tech: Simona Dobre
This series of portraits celebrates young women working with the openIMIS Initiative from across the world in diverse technical roles. Women make up less than a third of the global tech workforce, with even fewer women at senior levels. In line with BMZ’s Feminist Development Policy, openIMIS actively seeks to address this…

openIMIS Newsletter May/June 2025
Welcome to our May/June 2025 newsletter! Many exciting things have happened that we want to call your attention to:
Upcoming Highlights
Upcoming Bhela Call on Women in Tech
Recent openIMIS Events
Recap: Community Connect
Recap: Stakeholder Committee Meeting
Recent Bhela Discussions on Communication and Dashboards…

Celebrando Mulheres na Tecnologia: Karolliny Nayra dos Santos Lima
Esta série de relatos celebra jovens mulheres que atuam na Iniciativa openIMIS ao redor do mundo em funções técnicas diversas. As mulheres representam menos de um terço da força de trabalho global em tecnologia, com ainda menor presença em cargos mais altos. Em conformidade com a Política de Desenvolvimento Feminista…

Community Connect 2025 - Summary
Day 1, Wednesday 14 May
The latest implementation updates
The openIMIS Community Connect meeting started with implementation updates from around the world. Andrea Martin of the World Bank and consultant Anthony Benoit presented on the implementation of CORE-MIS powered by openIMIS, which supports the operation of cash transfer…

Celebrating Women in Tech: Kristin Chloe Pascual
This series of portraits celebrates young women working with the openIMIS Initiative from across the world in diverse technical roles. Women make up less than a third of the global tech workforce, with even fewer women at senior levels. In line with BMZ’s Feminist Development Policy, openIMIS actively seeks to address this…

April Release 2025 of openIMIS
The developers’ committee proudly announces that the new release of openIMIS for April 2025 is ready for download and installation.
After adding a lot of functionality in the past releases, the current release is primarily a bug-fixing release. The developers have worked on issues that were reported from early adopters. They…

Defining common business processes for formal sector insurance schemes
We have seen a growing demand among social protection and health insurance organisations to use openIMIS for different programmes,” says Julia Niklewski, Digital Health Adviser at openIMIS. “And although openIMIS offers basic functionality for formal sector schemes,” she continues, “the software still needs to be…

Newsletter April 2025
Welcome to our April 2025 newsletter! Many exciting things have happened that we want to call your attention to:
Upcoming Events
Community Connect Event in May
Latest News
South-South Cooperation at its Best
Celebrating Women in Tech Profiles
openIMIS and Private Software Developers
¿Qué es openIMIS? – An Introduction…

High-level delegations from three African countries visit Nepal to observe openIMIS in operation: South-south cooperation at its best
The aim of the study tour was to observe and understand how openIMIS supports the management of health financing and social protection programmes at different levels of Nepal’s health system.
We travelled to Nepal because we are considering replacing our costly commercial information management system with openIMIS. What we…