How Open Source Software and Digital Public Goods Enabled Quick Pandemic Responses in Sri Lanka...
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A COVID tracker is built on DHIS2 in under 24 hours, using an existing open-source health information platform to give aggregated case, contact and vaccine data; analytics inform where to send limited health workers and how to prioritize vaccination within a month. The tracker scales: deployed in 38+ low and middle income countries and copied to 14 others quickly. The UN-backed Digital Public Goods Alliance (formed 2019) certifies projects against a nine‑point DPG standard.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 3:33Road Map for Digital Cooperation
- 6:19How Did a Digital Public Good Really Manage a Pandemic in Sri Lanka
- 12:46What Is the Digital Public Good Standard
- 13:09Relevance to Sdgs
- 14:06Osi Approved Licenses
- 15:01Platform Independence
- 15:52Documentation
- 16:51Mechanism for Extracting Data
- 17:13Adherence to Privacy and Applicable Laws
- 18:31Eighth Is Adherence to Standards and Best Practices
- 18:48Do no Harm by Design
- 20:25How Is the Standard Deployed
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