Open data for mobile health services

=Open data for mobile health services=

=Problem statement=

Primary Health Care workers collect data from the communities they work in using mobile health applications. In addition they understand the needs of the people in the communities they visit. Currently there is no aggregation of both open data and user needs. By aggregating these two inputs an empirical open development process can be established using open data to deliver mobile services.

=Overview=

''Mobile services are primarily about linking – connecting people to information, services, and people who can help. If there are not adequate services, systems, or trained people to connect to, then mobile services are weak.''

Peter Benjamin - MD of Cell Life. http://www.healthunbound.org/content/%E2%80%9Cwe-have-real-chance-revolutionise%E2%80%9D

Through these mobile services the project will establish a business case.

The project focuses on the following Millennium Development Goals: MDG 3 on empowering women, MDG 4 on reducing child mortality, MDG 5 on improving maternal health MDG 6 combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.

A project site has been established here:

http://www.konekta.info/

= Immediate tasks =

http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/open-development-okfest2012?

=Goal and Objectives=

Goal (s)
Explore open development techniques and document success and failure.

Establish a social business process.

Objectives
Build relationships with organisations delivering health care on the ground Establish User Experience design assets describing users and needs Establish a dedicated open data repository linked to mobile data collection tools

Identification of useful open data

Publication of valuable timely open data

Engage open source developers using Github

Engage data journalists

Establish a business model that powers the development of open data

=Scope=

Project context diagram


Mhealth users - Health NGO

CHW's - Health NGO

Health NGO - Open data repo

Company A - Open data repo

Government Department - Open data repo

Open data repo - Open data platform

Site management - Open Platform

Open platform - Data journalist

Governance team - Open platform

Inforepeneurs - Open Platform

Developers - Open platform

Open platform - web services - Mhealth users

Project Scope
Develop an open data business model that supports organisations with a mandate to address:

MDG 3 on empowering women MDG 4 on reducing child mortality MDG 5 on improving maternal health MDG 6 combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Assumptions
Millennium Development Goals will improved through open development

Organisations working within communities will share open data collected through mobile devices

Video interviews describing user needs will be published

Open source developers will develop applications that consume open data and collaborate

The project will establish a sustainable business model based on open development

Data journalists will engage the project and use the data

=High-level requirements=

Management of the project by a core team
Mark Herringer (konekta.info) @markherringer

Sarah Johns (plan-international.org) @GeoGrr

Sreekanth S Rameshaiah (Mahiti.org) @mukruthi

Tim Davies (practicalparticipation.co.uk) @timdavies

Governance of the project by a selected board
A board will manage the vision and a guiding set of project assumptions.(see above) These assumptions will form the basis of an experimentation system used to track progress. The goal of the board will be to establish an open development culture where teams can move and innovate at the speed of the experimentation system. The experimentation system will break the project into it's component parts and test each part empirically. This testing process is designed to create validated learning and validate the product.

=Suggested approach=

Community health care organisations
The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) http://healthunbound.org/mama/

Cell Life http://www.cell-life.org/

Philani Nutrition centers http://www.philani.org.za/

The White Ribbon Alliance http://www.whiteribbonalliance.org/

Potential Open development organisations
AKVO http://www.akvo.org/

MySME News http://www.internews.eu/projects/my-sme-news-india

mapkibera.org http://www.mapkibera.org/blog/2010/04/09/map-kibera-how-do-you-represent-health-services-in-informal-settlements/ http://youtu.be/lEwuaDCVJoI

Bongohive http://bongohive.com/

iHub http://ihub.co.ke/pages/home.php

= Identification of technology to work with =

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Akj5_3vVWZ8tdGk4czI4eHcycGo2Y1NnWmhsUjdBTXc#gid=0

http://geodjango.org/

http://pybossa.com/

http://www.freedomfone.org

Project infrastructure
A web site that drives the project and communicates progress to stakeholders

A mobile application that delivers the service

An open API A multivariate testing environment

Open development assets
Defined accounting statistics that validate product assumptions or not

An open source Github repository of the web site and mobile applications.

http://thedatahub.org/dataset/mdg-opendevelopment

Youtube user story channel

Product backlog of user stories

Daily blog/tweets of open development activities

= Project budget =

= Timing Constraints =

The outputs of the project and members of the project team will present their findings and knowledge to the open development stream at: http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/open-development-okfest2012

September
=other links=

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Table_of_Contents

http://www.ted.com/talks/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_economics.html

http://www.slideshare.net/mangamonk/os-processes-forsocialentrepreneurs

http://www.slideshare.net/timdavies/open-data-engagement-using-open-data-w3c-workshop

http://www.slideshare.net/smit1678/opensource-mapping-of-global-health-data?ref=http://mapbox.com/blog/open-source-to-map-health-data/

http://openforchange.info/content/towards-open-development-data

http://openforchange.info/sites/pelle.drupalgardens.com/files/TNO%20whitepaper%20-%20Towards%20open%20development%20data.pdf