Global Goods Software for the Immunization Cold Chain

Waylon Brunette, Clarice Larson, Shourya Jain, Aeron Langford, Yin Yin Low, Andrew Siew, Richard Anderson

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Abstract

This paper explores the challenge of taking Global Goods software to international scale. Global Goods software is non-commercial software designed to support global development goals. We argue that a fundamental challenge behind this type of software is the different roles of the global organizations that fund projects, the country leadership that controls implementation, and the actual users of the software. To address this, it necessary to have a design process that balances interests of stakeholders and a technical design that allows for modularity and extensibility. We present a case study of an application for country level management of the immunization cold chain that we have developed and contrast it with major Global Goods software systems such as DHIS2 and OpenMRS. The contributions of the work include the design of a pipeline for building a Global Goods application that is deployed across multiple countries, a collection of lessons learned during system design and implementation, and a comparison of extensibility strategies of different global goods applications.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCOMPASS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages208-218
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781450371292
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 15 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, COMPASS 2020 - Guayaquil, Ecuador
Duration: Jun 15 2020Jun 17 2020

Publication series

NameCOMPASS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies

Conference

Conference3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, COMPASS 2020
Country/TerritoryEcuador
CityGuayaquil
Period6/15/206/17/20

Keywords

  • Global Goods software
  • immunization cold chain
  • ODK-X
  • Open Data Kit

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science

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