BEANISH

Contact Info

Project Manager
Jørn Braa
Commission Contact
Jacques Babot

Documentation

Project Documents
(Formal project documents: plans, deliverables and reports)

Conference Material
(Reports from events and promotional material used for dissemination of BEANISH activites)

Project Profile
(A short description of the project's aims)

Resources on core topics:
Information use
Describes how routinely collected information can be used to improve health care provision

Application of ISTs in developing countries
Discusses the challenges encountered when introducing IST technologies in developing countries

Global open source software development
Presents challenges and learnings around conducting software development in a globally distributed team

Teaching materials
Offers various teaching resources and materials for downloading and adaptation

Events

Upcoming events:
The project has now been finalised with a successful evaluation in Gaborone March 2008.

Recent events:

BEANISH Inter-Country Workshop
Gaborone, Botswana
March 13-14, 2008.

WITFOR 2007
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
August 22-24

IST-Africa
Maputo, Mozambique
May 9-11, 2007

Euro-Africa IST
Bruxelles, Belgium
March 9, 2007
BEANISH workshop: programme and presentations

Building Europe Africa collaborative Network for applying IST in Health care sector

The BEANISH initiative which is formally a WITFOR (World Information Technology Forum) project, proposed by EU-African partners and IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) builds upon an existing global RandD network called HISP (Health Information Systems Program). This initiative seeks to involve various institutional actors (government, universities, private sector and NGOs) to strengthen and extend an existing Europe-Africa collaborative network to support the application and sharing of IST application development so as to support cooperation, learning and innovation in mutually beneficial ways.

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Full project description

Participants

Department of informatics, University of Oslo, Norway (UOSLO)
http://www.ifi.uio.no

Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology (MCST), Botswana
http://www.gov.bw

University of the Western Cape, South Africa (UWC)
http://www.uwc.ac.za/comhealth/index.htm

Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (AAU)
http://www.aau.edu.et/

Medical College, Malawi (COM)
http://www.medcol.mw/commhealth/index.html

Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique (UEM)
http://www.uem.mz/

University of Dar Es Salaam (UDSM)
http://www.udsm.ac.tz/

The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
http://www.ifip.org/

More Information

General Information
www.hisp.info - the portal for many BEANISH activities

Software development
DHIS version 1.4
DHIS version 2.0

Other
WITFOR

External Resources

WHO Country Profiles - Connecting for Health: Global Vision, Local Insight