 Hi everyone, welcome everyone. Are you ready for the interesting five days of the DHS2 annual conference in this beautiful weather? We just ordered it for you guys, not necessarily what we are used to, summer in Norway or Slovakia. So we are starting introducing this conference and of course the opening of this conference. I think there's something out. Not good stuff. Okay, but then I'm introducing Svain Stirlen, he's our rector, so he will do the opening speech for you all. Welcome Svain. What is this? No, cannot. You need it because we have zoom and stuff. So maybe using this one. Svain, you can hold on. That one is cool, but it's not so cool. Shall I use this one? That's better. So there, Christine, their friends, colleagues, welcome to Norway, welcome to Oslo and welcome to University of Oslo. It's a great pleasure to be here. And it's a great pleasure also to be allowed to open this conference because we are extremely proud of the work that is being done by Christine, all colleagues, and all network that you are representing here. So it's really a great pleasure to be here. Welcome to those of you that are here physically. Welcome to those that are present digitally. And again, it is great to be here. This is, I would say, academia at its best. And that is needed in these days because there are uncertain times. I think that the geopolitics chose shadow over society also over academia. Look to G7 and EU to an increasing degree. They try to work in partnership with what they call trusted partners. And I think it's quite dangerous to think like that because we still need to work on the sustainable development agenda, of course, and goal number 17 partnerships for sustainability is extremely important. We need is what Christine and the DHISP has managed to do over years. We need long term commitment. We need equitable partnerships, and we need to have sharing and partnering joint as how to say guiding principles for what we are doing. And I think Alfa Bar in the annual report had a very nice description of what is going on in in in his pen in the DHISP, because he says that he was asked to drive this process. He said we are here to participate with you. That was the response of the Oslo people. You tell us what you want to do. And I think this is so extremely important. It's a different way to collaborate than some of other type of international partnerships. Local ownership is important. It's about empowerment. It's about capacity building, of course, and I think that he's to some extent tick all the boxes, open science, citizen engagement and so on. And it is an example of how to do global North-South cooperation. We have been inspired by this at the University of Oslo also we are learning from what you are doing. Last six years, we have been working through an organization called the Guild of European Research Intensive Universities in order to develop a new model for collaboration with African institutions. So we have tried to do collaborations. And we have developed the collaboration there might be. And what we have tried to do is to commit to local equitable type of partnerships where at least universities in two different African countries collaborate with at least two universities in two different European countries. And we are really eager that these alliances are embedded. On Thursday, we decided the establishment of 20 long term centers of excellence. We are in that for 10 years and we put in the basis in order to have long term equitable type of partnerships. We try to build a partnership of long term and also institutions. But if I don't disturb, if it doesn't disturb you too much, I will continue anyway. I think that the annual report is both inspiring and impressing. And that is needed at a time where we have a government in Norway that seems not to understand really the value of international cooperation in research and higher education. It is important for the global us, but it's also important for Norway, for society, for our students. And that's extremely important that we continue to work together. William, in a time where we need to build trust, mutual understanding. We need more international cooperation, not less international cooperation. And you are guiding stars for the University of Oslo. We are very proud to have you here. We are very proud of the program. Welcome and enjoy the conference. I'm sure you're going to have both of them and do really good work for us. Thank you. Thank you so much. You are allowed to run. And bring your DHS to a coffee cup with you and the caps. See you later. So thank you so much, Svain, for reminding us of how important it is at the University to actually have all these legs to stand on, which is handling social challenges, doing capacity building and doing innovations. So for this annual conference topic for this year is sharing innovation across sectors. And we are last year, we had the global progress, no, innovations for global progress. But now we're taking it even further because what we have learned of handling, working hard, revamping all our resources to accelerate whatever we can do to support countries during the pandemic. We have learned that health information systems is not only about health. When it's come to handling a pandemic, we need to go across all the sectors to have immigration, citizen registries, schools, safely reopening of schools that they did in Uganda. So these are all many sectors that need to be involved. So that's why we wanted to have the topic of this conference to kind of a bit celebrating what we have achieved, but also looking a bit into the future to see that supporting government in the global south and it should be in the global north as well. We have the same problems here of lack of information, interoperability and governance of data. That's why we are calling this call for both abstract presentations, discussions, plans, future plans for sharing innovation across sectors. You will see there will be several events happening on that one. It will be a closing plenary on Thursday before the big event that we do here in annual conference always celebrating each other in a social event in the beautiful weather on the lake very close from here. So we will have parallel sessions throughout the conference. But still we shouldn't forget what we actually have been achieving during the pandemic that we have been able not only to mobilize resources but also to work together and more than ever being able to share the innovations that we have had in the past. So we have been able to help each other in order to support countries. So that's what it's all about is how can we develop capacity to support countries for digital public infrastructure. Then is denoting a bit on the SS to becoming a global good, a digital global public good that can be utilized if the capital capacity is in the country. It can be utilized for many things. So that is what we are working on and we will also have a session on digital global public good what does it take to be a global good. What does it take to build capacity so we can innovate, support countries, support ministries across not only health but education. Svain was talking about Alphaba that he's actually working in the MS team in the Ministry of Education in the Gambia. So education is also very vibrant now new community within the SS to umbrella his umbrella, and we will have also several sessions where we will discuss also how can we thinking about combining resources combining data and knowledge about the claim climate in order to see how that can have impact on health. How can we actually utilize the knowledge of data governance data analytics in order to be able to predict. Intervene do interventions on health issues as well. That's a new avenue that we will start we don't know how much activities there will be but we will definitely start it and that will also be a parallel session on Wednesday. If you if you don't know what's happening in this conference you download that but Max will tell more about that one. So there is so many, many things happening and we are breaking records every year. That's the that's the tradition, and we are have 400 registered this time. Last year was 300 so what it will be next year we don't know. We are starting new traditions. All the time as I mentioned we have last year we announced that we become a center he's become a center at the University of Oslo. Now we are also making an annual report, which a proper center need to do. So, if you if you look at the desk, there is a red thing over there you are, you can take it didn't put it into your bag because because we were afraid you will throw it away in garbage somewhere. But if you want it you are, we are very happy that you can take it and read it. And as a sign quoted, we have interviews with people that in a way showcase our way of working, however, how, why we are different. People are asking us you're a global public good you were able to mobilize all these resources during pandemic. So you were able to support 60 over countries. When it came to disease surveillance contract tracing and vaccine delivery. So what is the secret recipe or what do you have in that soup. This is what we are trying to to showcase in this annual report through this interviews of several different actors. And of course also bragging a bit about other stuff we are doing. So you're most welcome to to grab one. And there will also be an a PDF of course because we are thinking about the climate so we don't print if you don't people really want it and hold it in their hands. So it can be so it can be downloaded from our website to the PDF if you would like to to share with others. So this will be a new tradition that we will do all the years. So if you have any ideas during the year for what to be showcased in this report, please tell us. So this with these words, I really think we should go into a bit more logistics. We have many things happening from the plan we seen here. And then we will just go through a bit of who's here, what will happen this week. And then we will hear from all the product managers, what all the new features what all the things that we can share, implement, deploy in the coming year. And all these news will be presented by the team of project managers are sitting here in the front. But first we will go through. Who are we, who are we this year. And we know that we have all time high contingency from ministries and many, many countries actually coming with many ministries we have. We don't know whether everyone is here already, but for instance Malawi has are here with three ministries, agriculture, health, and gender and social welfare. We actually have a gender equity, not gender, but the equity session as well this year that that is actually the first time. Okay. Hola. Thank you. Is this working? Can you hear me? Perfect. Good morning and welcome everyone. As Kristen said, we'll move into some of the logistics, some of the information to guide you through this week together in Oslo. We'll, as you can see around you, there's a lot of people. So we want to have time for everyone to introduce themselves, but I'll try to help giving you some statistics on who is here and I'll start with that and then I'll pass it over to Max to go through some more logistics around the agenda. Yeah, we can do this. So as Kristen said, another record this year. 414. At least register confirmed and paid. I was counting the badges out there on the tables. I don't think we are 414 inside yet, but there may be people stuck in down at the central station. Unfortunately, I think also a few are stuck with VFS and our embassies dealing with visa applications, but it's great to have so many people here. We also have of course a big team from our own staff here in Oslo around Europe, but there are at least 342 guests from outside the UIO and the HISP Center, representing 72 different countries, which is actually the same as last year, as you can see on the left. But there are many more organizations this year. I counted 169 unique organizations represented at this conference. And of course we shouldn't forget the people online. There are more than 800 registered to follow the sessions on Zoom. So big numbers. If you look at the distribution by country of residence. I think throughout this, when I was working on the statistics, I think there are of course some challenges with the data quality here as well. I think it's up and not everyone are confirmed and I think they're a little bit of confusion of country residence versus where you were born, but but anyway, I think it's a, you can see the spread from from west to east and south to north. Quite incredible. Africa again leading in terms of number of countries that are here. I'm very glad to see a lot of central African countries coming here to Oslo with big teams this year. Also, four countries from the Luciferna Africa here. Bang ring in the window, I will say. Great to have so many here. I think also we see that just like last year, the MENA Arab region is really picking up on details to there's a big team here from ministries in Jordan, Yemen, Iraq, and Pakistan. And a lot of double age of stuff from country offices and the regional office in MRO as well. And a small team from Latin America doesn't really reflect the big uptake in that region, but maybe reflecting the lack of aid budgets for travels and also it's a far. It's a long travel from from Latin America, but we have a team from Panama and colleagues from Columbia here. Welcome to you all. If you look at the how many people we have per team here, of course, the home team from from Norway leading again with a big team from the US. Great to see so many people from Malawi, UK, Pakistan, Uganda, Somalia, Switzerland, Ethiopia, you see there are big, big teams here. And if you look on the on the pie chart on the right, it's a good mix of of different types of groups and organizations represented with but one fourth representing country governments, mainly ministry of health. We have a few other ministries like Kristen said, education, agriculture and gender equality, and then about 20% from NGOs, another 20 something percent from international organizations. And then, of course, with with a big team from the his center, University of Oslo, we have quite a big group from academia universities, but also other universities coming here to Oslo. And then there's a fair share of private companies and consultants as well. So I think it's a good mix. It's great to have so many people with different backgrounds and also different kind of roles within the details implementation coming here and sharing experiences. Okay, so I think we'll take a little bit of extra time to introduce the ministry of health and other kind of government teams that are here. I did see some of these countries on the badges out there, unfortunately, but so some may be stuck in the application visa application process. But let's call. I'll call you out one team at a time and then you can stand up and we can welcome you together. So let's see. Do we have anyone from Angola here? Ministry of Health Angola. Can you stand up please? Welcome. A big team. Great. Okay, then Bangladesh. Do we have anyone from Bangladesh? Welcome. And Botswana. Yes, welcome. Burundi. Not yet. Chad. We have Chad. Despite unwelcoming VFS processes and embassies. You should believe that all of us here we welcome you with all our hearts. You are very much welcome to Norway. Unfortunately, it's a complicated visa process to get here. Welcome. Do you have any from Congo? This is the Democratic Republic. I believe Congo. I think we have a big team from WTO. We can do them later, but no one from ministry yet. Okay. East Timor. Yes, welcome. Should also be a team here from Ethiopia. Yes, welcome. Many. Welcome. Anyone from Ghana? Ghana Health Service. Did you make it? No, not yet. Okay. Guinea-Bissau. Not yet. Iraq. Yes, welcome. Jordan. Yes, welcome. And then I think for the first time, Minister of Health from Kyrgyzstan. Welcome. Great to have you here. I know the region where the crisis is really picking up. Madagascar. Anyone from Minister of Health, Madagascar? Yes. And as we heard, there are three ministries represented from Malawi. So if you can all stand up, welcome to Malawi. Anyone from Mali? Then Mozambique. We have a very exciting plenary session on Wednesday morning where the Mozambique team will share their story of DJI's implementation over more than 10 years. Anyone from Nigeria, Minister of Health? Or education, maybe? No. Particularly difficult visa process in Nigeria. Trust me. We've been on the call with Embassy Nakara for many weeks now. Pakistan. Anyone from Minister of Health in Pakistan? Yes. Welcome. And then we have a small team from Panama. Do we have Panama here? Welcome. I think that's also our first. We have Minister of Health from Panama here. Great. And then Rwanda? Yes. Welcome, Andrew. And then Sautomeya in principle. Anyone here? And then Somalia. I think about education and health from Somalia here. Yes, welcome. Sri Lanka? Yes, welcome. Tanzania? Yes, welcome. Minister of Health or education from Togo? Yes, welcome. And then we have a team from Uganda, Minister of Health as well. Yes, welcome. And Yemen. Yemen Minister. Welcome. And then someone is whispering in my ear that we have representatives from Ukraine as well. Is that true? Ukraine Minister? Yeah, welcome. Great to have you here. And then maybe other countries that didn't make it through my cleaning of statistics list. So if there are other countries and governments here, please. You can stand up and you can speak and tell us where you're from. Yes. Welcome. Welcome. Who else did we miss? Okay, we have of course other organizations here as well. This one is showing you kind of how many, these are the biggest teams. If we kind of remove the universe to Oslo and all the his groups. We have a big delegation from WHO here. They are emerged headquarter and country offices for some of these groups that of course come from different countries. But maybe we can start with WHO. Everyone representing WHO. Stand up please. It should be a big, big team. Welcome. I know we have regional teams from both Afro, Brazzaville and also from the MRA office and many country offices. And of course the Geneva headquarters are represented as well. And then let's go through this quickly. FHI 360. Are you here? Welcome. MSF. Yes, welcome. UNICEF. Welcome. CDC. Welcome. Simprints. Welcome. Mercy Corps. From Pakistan team. Welcome. ICS. Welcome. BEO. And then we have VAHO from ECUAS. Welcome. And JSI is also here. Not yet. There you are. Sitesavers. Welcome. Samaritan's Purse. Welcome. And then USAID. Welcome to the country offices. Welcome. Apps Associates. Back to Zimbabwe. Welcome. We have a small team from Gavi. Welcome. And then if you look at the map. Far bottom right. New Zealand. Opposite of Norway. Someone has traveled really far. There's a team from M-supply. In New Zealand here. Welcome. And then from our neighbors in Finland. Nuovo Nordic Healthcare Services. Are they here? Not yet. Maybe later this week. And then there's a team from Akkarede School of Public Health. In Kampala, Uganda. Are they here? Metz team. No. Not yet. Okay. And then Kristian pointed out to me that there should be a team from RTSL. Result to sell lives here. Yeah, Daniel. Welcome. And there were 169. So these were the ones with kind of three and more members. But you're all very, very welcome of course. Great to have you here. And then Maxwell, we changed the agenda. App this year. So Maxwell, try to guide you through. So that you can find your way to all the interesting sessions. So I'll hand it over to Max. Thank you. Thanks a lot. So as you might have seen, we have a new annual conference website this year. And here's the address at the top, dac2023.dhs2.org. So anytime you're wondering what's happening next in the conference, you can go there and look at the agenda tab. And you should be able to navigate per day and see what's coming up. Introduce myself, my name is Max. I run the training and communications group and I'm responsible for putting on this conference. So if you have. Thank you. Especially Alice, who I'm sure you all know. So if you have any questions about the conference, she's the real one to ask. I'm just the figurehead. Okay. So when you go to the website, one thing you can also do is look at who the participants are. So this is a mixture of in-person and online participants. And there's a good place to find out who's participating, maybe make contacts, get in touch with them. It's voluntary to add your contact information there. So if you'd like people to contact you, you can go in and update your profile to have your email address or LinkedIn or whatever you like your photo to if you want. And we will have a number of coffee breaks, tea breaks, lunch breaks throughout the event. And that's a good time to just mingle and connect with people. And also, like I said, you can connect with people online too. For the agenda, it's a four-day agenda. Here's what it looks like when you look at our website. So you can see we have time. You can also log in via Zoom. And that's where you access the live interpretation into French. That's indicated in the title. And when you open them, you'll find links to access them online if you're joining us virtually. If you're here in person and would prefer to listen to French rather than English, you can also log in via Zoom and that's where you access the live interpretation. We'll have a slide on that in just a few seconds. You can see here, typically, we're starting off with these large plenary sessions in the morning. Usually it's the whole morning. So we're going to get to the parallel sessions. And we'll show a map and a couple slides of where those are. But when we get to the parallel sessions, you'll have four different tracks to choose from, typically. So it's good to look at the schedule and see what's coming up, see what you're interested in. There will also be printed schedules available on the doors to the parallel session rooms. So if you're not sure, you can double check there. And it's important to also realize that each of those rooms does have a limited physical capacity. So if you get to a room and it's full, then you have the option of either going to check out a different session that's happening in a different room or joining that session online, because those will also be on Zoom. So if you really can't get into the physical meeting room, you can still participate in that meeting virtually or watch a recording of it later, because they all will be recorded and posted to our YouTube channel at the end of the conference. We did want to say thank you to everyone who sent in abstracts. We had 191 of them, which is a record this year. So thanks a lot, especially all of you here. And there are a total of 175 speakers who will be speaking at the conference across a total of 55 sessions. Again, a plug for getting up early to come join us in the plenaries. Those are some of the most exciting sessions. We're starting at 8.30 in the morning tomorrow. So hopefully we'll see you here bright and early. We will have plenty of coffee. So there's no excuse for being too tired to come in. And this is what the app looks like. So if you like to use your mobile phone to access websites, you can also download the conference app, which is hopefully linked to from the main page of our websites. If you go again to DAC2023.dhs2.org and scroll down, you'll see a banner that has information about that app. And you can download it directly from there onto Android or iPhone. In that session, you'll see a different display of the conference agenda. A lot of the same features as the website, just in a more mobile friendly format. And you can also customize your agenda. So if you know there are certain sessions you definitely want to go to, you can save those into your own sort of customized agenda so you don't need to look through the whole thing every time. And if you have any questions about this, again, let us know. And you do need to be a registered participant for the conference to get access to it and personalize it through this app. So if you have any issues logging in, again, just send us an email. You shall have the access to the DAC2023 email address to contact us. All right, so this afternoon we have a special event and Ola's going to explain to us how this is going to work. This is our use case bizarre. Can you stay here, May? Yes, but I'll try a little bit. So as always, we'll do a use case bizarre. We've had many, many abstract submissions. Some of them have been turned into a poster, a pull-up poster. We have 23 posters and teams presenting at the use case bizarre this afternoon. So you will I think it's better to start with. So you kind of get the idea. I think we will have just like we did last day for those that attended. When we walk over to the other building where we'll do the parallel breakout sessions. We'll have one set of posters inside the big lobby area there and then we'll have another group of posters outside between here and that building. So the trick is to read the information either in the app, agenda app or on this printed, I think there are many printed versions of this. You can see the numbers here all the different posters what they're about, who's presenting and then you can find their location. So we'll go on for about two and a half hours. The poor presenters will do it up to 15 times. They will do like 10 minutes pitches and then you'll have time to ask questions and have discussions in smaller groups and then we'll do a signal and then everyone will start again. So then you can move to another poster for those that have been with us many years you know that when we had a bit fewer sessions we tried to put you in groups and you walk around in a very systematic way. I think we've given up on that now and we'll let you choose where to go but we'll restart every 10-15 minutes so that you have a chance to listen to many of the presenters. I think it's a great way to hear what countries organizations are doing with DJS2. It's a good mix of both very technical and also more kind of implementation specific presentations and a lot of interoperability I saw this year. So Bob will be busy learning from you all. So I think this one you will figure out it's not much more to say. This bazaar will be followed by a social event that we'll talk about in a few minutes. Thank you. So as Oliver mentioned right after the use case bazaar we will transition into a social event there'll be pizza and drinks and that will be over in the same location where the use case bazaar is just right across the patio area outside of this conference hall. During that event a couple of colleagues and I will be standing around with a video camera looking for people to talk to us about your impressions of DJS2. We'll be covering stories from people and really we don't want to make this seem too complicated we have one question I want to ask you which is what does DJS2 mean to you and you can talk for as little or as long as you like it's really up to you what you say but if you're interested in that we'll be standing over along the wall across the courtyard with a video camera this is a picture of the three of us here so you know who to look for and really we're happy to talk to anyone who wants to come and share their story so if you go around and ask if we're not getting a lot of volunteers we're not afraid to try to recruit volunteers so hopefully some people will be excited to talk to us and actually one other comment if you have a longer story you want to tell us we're also interested in doing more in-depth interviews about implementations so if you've been working with DJS2 and you think your project is really exciting or interesting or might be useful for the community to know about you can send me an email you can find a time over the next few days and I'll sit down with you and either record it or just take notes but that would be really great to hear more about what you're doing so the next event after the conference sessions themselves is tomorrow afternoon and that's a expert's lounge this happens on Tuesday and Wednesday and this is an opportunity for you to sit down one-on-one and ask technical questions or raise issues with people who work in specific areas of the DJS2 project so a few examples here like tech or integration there's a list of people who have volunteered to do these expert's languages that's on the conference website so you can kind of know in advance who there is to talk to and when you get there they'll just be sitting at different desks around the same area where we're having the use case bizarre today so we really encourage you to take advantage of that this is a good opportunity for you to talk to people one-on-one and the core DJS2 team about how you're using the software or any issues or questions you might have come up with this is a slide especially for the people who are joining us remotely or anyone here who happens to want to turn into a presentation on Zoom you can find Zoom links to all sessions on the agenda on the website and we will be live streaming all of these plenary sessions also on our YouTube channel and on the community practice so people can ask questions there we're going to be using the same links for each of these tracks we have basically four parallel session rooms which equates to four digital tracks and we have the same link every day so just to make it easier for people to come back in or switch between them you only really have to have four links that you are keeping track of again like I said you can join from Oslo online if you'd like to if you either can't find a space in the room or if you want to use the French interpretation services and as you saw this morning we occasionally have tactical issues with that just be patient we always have some exciting bugs or equipment issues that happen every year and that's just part of running a hybrid event so hope we have patience with this as I mentioned the DHS2 community practice is our community website hopefully you've all seen this before and used it we really encourage everyone who's active in the DHS2 community to sign up because this is where we share a lot of news this is where countries share a lot of innovations this is where we announce our software releases it's really beneficial to be part of it and we also use it during the conference to keep a record of what people share and facilitate discussions during the conference and after the conference and you can find all the posts that are related to the annual conference by using the tag DAC2023 so there's a link to that in the banner on the homepage of the community practice it's easy to find that you just click on that button and it will automatically display a list of all the conference related topics but you can also just search for that if you want to and all the live streams the plenaries will be there and we are encouraging people who aren't here in person to leave comments to share them there on the COP so you're also welcome to do that here if you like, if you think of something after a plenary is over you can just go there and add a comment and the people responsible can go and answer it or share information on that platform and now my colleague Alice will join us and talk about French interpretation yep thank you so as Max mentioned all decisions will be available in Zoom and we will also provide for the French interpretation live interpretation of the sessions it's very easy to identify the sessions which are interpreted on the agenda because you can see the mention English to French so yes so you just need to click on the icon sorry you join Zoom, you click on the icon and you select French and then you will access the French interpretation room where you'll be able to hear speaking in French so I start again in French this time as for the previous years we take the live interpretation of all plenary sessions as well as some parallel sessions so if you are a French speaker and you want to listen to these sessions in French it's very simple so first you can identify them on the agenda they will have the English-French mention then when you join the session on Zoom you will see the interpretation icon you click on the icon you go to the French space and you will hear the interpreters so translate the sessions in French and of course for those who are on site don't hesitate to join if you are here but if you want to hear the sessions in French it's very important voilà so now here you have a plan of the different buildings that we are going to use for the annual conference you can see that the plenary sessions will be hosted in Sophice-Lies auditorium which is where we are while we will have the parallel sessions hosted in Villain-Byrknes-Hus so it's literally right in front of Sophice-Lies so it's a couple of meters not far at all you will see also on the map we will be having the lunch which is the Frédéric's building so it will be quite easy to find it's also really very close and you will have some signs to show you which direction to go to the lunch building the coffee breaks will be in the morning here in Sophice-Lies as we will have the plenaries here while the coffee breaks in the afternoon will be hosted in Villain-Byrknes building so do not hesitate to check really the agenda that you have on DAG2023.dhs2.org to find out the venue for your session and on top of that also you will have the list of the sessions for each venue in front of the conference room on the door so it's really easy if you want to double check in each room what sessions will be hosted every day so now here you have I guess you already had it but if it's not the case these are the Wi-Fi network as well as the password so we have also if you want to go to the toilets unfortunately for ladies the one in this building do not work so it means that you will have to go to Villain-Byrknes I'm sorry about that but yeah it means that you have to go to the other building the building that is used for the parallel sessions to go to the bathroom but it's not far once again and then for the men it will be on the ground floor you will have the look at the signs which indicates where are the toilets so it's just downstairs water yeah clean and fresh so don't hesitate to drink tap water and nice also you have your DHS 2 cups I hope each of you have some if not we have bags available in the lobby so you can grab your bag and your cups so today in this evening right after the use case bazaar we will have our pizza and drinks party in Villain-Byrknes starting from 7 between 6.30 and 7 actually yeah to 9pm so it will be in the lobby of Villain-Byrknes so the same building that we use for the parallel sessions so and also if you want to tell us a little bit about your story with DHS 2 what DHS 2 mean to mean to you don't hesitate to you will see that Max, Grant and Shikwado our colleagues from the communication team will be around with the camera ready to capture your testimony about what is DHS 2 and what it means to you and then finally the last day of the conference and first day afternoon we will have our traditional social events with outdoor excursions food drinks it will probably be in Songzvan which is a very nice area so don't hesitate to bring your swimsuit as well because I think it's going to be very warm around 28 I guess I see I saw yeah so yeah we'll have a lot of games, fun games, barbecue yeah traditional Norwegian party if I can say and then finally as usual we will have our group picture so please please if I know you will be like in very interesting sessions but really we will need to make sure that we take our group picture so it will be great if all of you could start heading outside it will be on Frederickeplassen which is like the square right in the middle of the buildings you can't miss it it will be great if you could be there on time because we are such a large crowd so I'm sure we will need to make sure that everybody appears like everybody is nice and beautiful and smiling for the picture and it will take time so don't be late quarter to four outside yeah and then also another tradition of ours don't hesitate to take like pictures during the annual conference to share them with us on social the media, Facebook, Twitter you just need to use the hashtag DAG2023 and we will select the best pictures and we will show them on the last day of the conference so yeah be creative oh yeah I was focused okay so if you have any questions any issue you have the team here the staff members are ready to help you you can identify them because we have a blue tag like this with the black lanyard and well and some have some blue hats, baseball hats so if you have any questions or issues you can just ask one of us or send us an email on oslo2023 at details2.org or obviously ask me as well so thank you everyone we wish you a very nice and beautiful week in Oslo and just a reminder that the plenaries will start every day at 8.30 and as we were saying for the parallelization please make sure you identify the correct venue for your session thank you Alice the only thing I wanted to remind was actually the thing there it's only today that the plenaries started at 9 so every other day it will every each day it will be 8.30 so please be here on time because we have many many things we want to showcase you guys and I know it's very difficult to get people from the coffee inside here but I think there is room for coffee now isn't it yeah we weren't sure how long Kristian would talk in the morning so we didn't put a coffee break at them in the agenda joking but there is a bonus coffee break now and we can use it as a little bit of an exercise to see how quickly we can empty this room and fill it up again because at 10.30 they will start at sharp all the product managers to present what's new in the HS2 so please be back at 10.30 and take the opportunity now to meet new friends and old friends thank you so people we are starting now so all the chit chat and chatting is over coffee break is over I will give an announcement it has actually been remember when we had them the calling out for countries to raise sorry sorry it has started hello it's an important announcement because what we were not aware we were aware but we forgot it's a big fire in the city not dangerous it's only a warehouse but they have been fighting with the fire since yesterday and that's the reason why many of us of you guys were not here in the morning in the tram so don't take the tram it will have maybe be a couple of days without the tram but the tube the metro will work fine so it's not a problem I just wanted to say that remember we were asking for Ghana Health Service and Ministry of Health in Ghana and they were not here they were stuck in the tram so please Ghana Health Service raise welcome so now we all know that we are not going to the tram only the metro so over to Osip thank you Kristen welcome everybody I think Urno wanted me to mention that if you can move a little bit in so that people that are coming in late don't have to climb over the top of you to get into their seats that would be helpful so move a little bit away from the inside edge at least that would be great so alright so who wants to talk about DHS2 anybody interested I like the enthusiasm we're going to talk about the latest features and releases in DHS2 versions 39 and 40 those came out in November and May respectively and there's a lot that we're going to have to go over so we're going to have to move pretty quickly we're going to try something a little bit different this time with some role play and theater so if we mess that up please apologize I apologize in advance so for those of you who don't know me my name is Austin McGee I'm the technical lead for DHS2 relatively new position for me but excited to be here and share with you a bit about what we've been working on this past year I'm not going to talk that much because I'm going to turn it over to many of my colleagues who are going to dive into the details and share more about what's new in DHS2 in the last year okay so first off what have we done what has happened since the annual conference in 2022 we've had two major releases as I mentioned version 39 and 40 alright that's the kind of enthusiasm I like thank you along with that we also had two releases of the android capture application so that was version 27 and 28 and in addition to that we kind of highlight the new features that come out with the major releases of DHS2 but we've also been doing a lot of other work behind the scenes so probably many of you have seen the patch releases that are to all the supported versions of DHS2 to add a few minor features and mostly fix bugs and issues and make sure that it's as stable and as reliable as possible we've also had a number of hot fixes to address critical issues in a very timely manner so we have hot fixes for supported releases about every two months but if there's something that needs to come out quicker than that or needs to come out across all the versions at the same time we release a hot fix so that might be a security issue it might be a critical performance issue something like that so this is again trying to address and get out there as quickly as possible the most stable reliable version of DHS2 that we can I also wanted to talk a little bit about some of the things we've been doing behind the scenes so we'll talk a little bit about or a lot about the different features that are in DHS2 but there's a lot that's going on to make that happen and to make DHS2 better in more subtle ways so this is an effort that we have ongoing for improving the design and usability of DHS2 so we have a new team that joined us at the beginning of last year in 2022 doing functional analysis and functional design and we're expanding the design team as well and working with some partners to really improve the usability of DHS2 as a product which in the end leads to better data and better use of data in programs that actually matter so there's a lot of steps that go into design right so we've got talking to users we've got exploring how they actually interact with DHS2 testing how they use the software and how they understand it from a training perspective as well and then using that to inform how we build DHS2 software. We've started as you saw previously focused primarily on the android capture application which is typically the last mile user of DHS2 which is going to spill over into all areas of the product so that includes the data entry on the web it includes the way you manage and configure DHS2 as well as how you analyze data another important thing that's going on kind of behind the scenes in the last year is the move to continuous release and this is something that's been ongoing for a little while but what it means is that there are two major releases so those two major releases we came out with in the last year are just a small piece of the puzzle because those are now decoupled from each of the applications that we have this means that every application in DHS2 can be independently released by the core team at UIO also can be custom applications built by anyone in the community that can be deployed through the app hub and we can release those independently from DHS2 core with a version of that application this avoids the risk of needing to upgrade your entire server just to address a small issue or a small improvement to the user interface because you can update an application independently and very quickly roll that back without a lot of risk it allows us to release features and bug fixes more quickly so we don't need to wait until the next we can do some of those improvements get those into the wild and it allows for us to have also shorter iterations and user feedback which feeds into that design process to better improve the software overall so you can already find a lot of these applications that the team at UIO develops as well as those that are built by the community on the app hub on DHS2 and many of the features that we are going to talk about here today that are in 39 or 40 are also available for 38 or if they were introduced in 40 are already available in version 39 because they're just updates the application and that application happens to support 38, 39 and 40 for example some things are only in the latest version because they have requirements on the database but for any feature that doesn't have that requirement we're able to quickly introduce that in a way that works across different released versions and supported versions of DHS2 so this is a pretty exciting kind of step change and it's been a long time coming but we're getting to the point where the majority of our applications are actually on this new mechanism for delivery continuous release and that means that going forward even though we're being very stable and pushing for quality and even slowing down the core releases we can continue to push the envelope in terms of features and functionality for end users thank you I I'll buy you lunch later thanks Ben yeah I did mention also that that is available for not only the applications that are released by the UIO team but also the applications that are released from the community so we've had the ability to install and extend DHS2 with web applications for quite some time and all of the basically we're eating our own dog food as they say which means that we are using the tools that we build for the community for our own releases I also wanted to highlight one last thing about the version 40 release and this is our beta testing program so this is something that was introduced in 2014 I believe but it really took off in the 40 release cycle we worked with seven I think it was more than seven in the end different organizations to do extensive testing of version 40 before it was even released so more than 11,000 tests were performed by these organizations on realistic databases that they're actually using in production so they were upgrading to version 40 we had a pretty impressive pass rate and 96% is not 100% but that means that the other issues so that 4% of issues that might have had something that wasn't exactly as it was expected to be were followed up and the critical issues were fixed and those that weren't as critical are fixed in the future patch releases of those that version 40 so really excited to see this takeoff in version 40 and hopefully it will manifest in a very stable and smooth upgrade process for everyone once you upgrade to version 40 and we're hoping to continue and expand this in the future as well so I wanted to thank a few people who were involved with this there were quite a number of people first of all the QA team at UIO so the DHS2 QA team and Phil in particular has really been the champion of this so huge thank you to Phil for putting this all together and the rest of the team as well for really making that possible Phil's right there so everybody can look at him and then we also of course want to thank our beta testing partners who were involved in this and spent their time to make sure that we're testing each of the features and functionalities within DHS2 very rigorously with production databases and real use cases and a special thanks to a couple contributors from Sri Lanka who in addition to doing tests and being part of the beta testing process helped us to improve it and really had some good feedback and input on how we can improve that process and make sure that it's fully covering all of the functionality in DHS2 so with that that's all the behind the scenes stuff now we get to the pretty pictures and we're going to go through the different product streams within DHS2 one at a time and we're going to introduce the product managers are each going to introduce the features that are in version 39 and version 40 we're not necessarily going to split them out and say this is in 39 and this is in 40 you can go to the release notes to figure that out but you'll see what's new in the last year of DHS2 development and I hope that you enjoy what you see we'll finish with as I said a little bit of that theater to show how these features kind of work together in a pseudo realistic situation to make a DHS2 system serve the needs of a real implementation or real use case so with that I'll turn it over to Marta Vila my colleague from the Android team to talk about the functionality that's in the Android capture app versions 2.7 and 2.8 Hello Salute this one here if you prefer Thank you Aston Hello everyone good morning I'm Marta Vila the android or mobile product manager I'm pleased and honored to present one year more the work that the Android team has been doing so this with the demo means that we are going to go through our features without demo now so we hope it's not very heavy we have kept it light but if there are doubts or things that are not clear please join us in the in the what's the name expert launches that we have tomorrow and Wednesday at 5pm if you have questions about this it's not only for doubts or anything but also to discuss the products so let's start with Android in these last two versions we have mainly focused in user experience and implementation support but we have also done some functional parity we have new Android web apps and we have an exciting use case data flow that I will explain later the first one is the real time stock management module which is for LMIS the last two versions have had a real big change so what the I mean the layout seems different but the main functionality that we have been requested for so long is to resize the columns so you can do that now easily with a drag and drop the tables also render the color that you select when you configure the data set you can use legends and the scrolling when the table is big up and down it has been improved as well and the data entry do I have a mouse? so the data entry form keeps the context for the user this little field is new from 2.7 so moving on to the sync process was also one of the processes or parts of the app that we got more requests so we have improved the sync process mainly the first one most of you using the app know that the first sync is the one when we download all the metadata and all the data so it's a bit slow sometimes the time that it uses now is the same but we have tried to make it more dynamic by opening the home screen right after the app knows the metadata and then when the data is loading we are informing the user what's happening which program is actually being downloaded it's downloading the data and the full sync will happen only the first time so not every time you open the app that's a big improvement for Brian as a community health worker the other thing that we have improved here and we hope it really helps this is very new is the contextual sync error feedback which is this little dialogue here so now we had already messages for errors that were adapted to the context but what is new now is that the user can navigate from whatever screen in the app it is to the actual error in the form to fix it by only tapping on top of the error when it's on the screen so you can go from the home screen or the program screen down to the form and you have the field highlighted like this is the field that is wrong so we really hope this helps so moving on we have new renderings for tracker and data entry first one the digital signature you can now collect a signature for consent or however your configuration needs it using the mobile phone this is stored as an image so it's the value type image and it has a specific rendering type and then we have added a few actionable buttons for three value types so the email the phone number and the URL value types will now be actionable so if the user taps in the phone for example it will go to the phone app in the device and let you call that patient for example same for the email and same for the if you have URLs thank you another rendering improvements is that we have extended the rendering types for the option sets the option sets I don't know if this is widely used but you can decide the rendering of your option sets it can be radio button it can be a checkbox in horizontal or in vertical and if you assign icons to your options it can also be visual data entry and your icons will be rendered there so this worked only for text before option sets with value type text you can use them now for any value type that you are using on your options and so we hope this helps making data entry a bit more intuitive for the users there are many other fixes that we have been doing we have increased the tapable areas in the icons and in buttons we have added loading banners in the process that were reported that were taking some time so that the user doesn't feel that the app is frozen we have improved the offline user experience by either removing the options or informing the user that this option doesn't work because you don't have internet we have improved the display of long texts in some places of the app and then the navigation of the sections that now have this next button here because the accordion was not really intuitive we are looking at this as part of the design project so hopefully we'll improve it even more but for now we hope this next button helps the user know what to do when they reach the last element so that's all about user experience moving now on about functional parity mainly with tracker we have two main aspects that were we were a bit behind well one that we were behind which is the file value type the file value type was not supported in the app it is supported now in the app for tracker and for data sets and yeah there is a maximum that you can configure for download you will make sure we don't download very heavy files from the server when you sync you can set that up in the Android settings so that and then the working list with data elements this were not we were not behind it's been released together in Android and and tracker so Mike will present this later just to say it will go together where the working list already were and the Android user the community health worker last mile user is not supposed to create the working list for now they will be configured on the server and then the app will download them and offer them as a filter so now about the web apps there are two new web apps and one of them is APK distribution I'm going to explain you this one right away the other one is use case configuration I will explain that one at the end of the presentation and this is part of what Austin was presenting you just have to go to the app management app and then app app and find them and install them on your server so the APK distribution web app we are very excited to see how this is adopted because this has been highly requested we are trying to offer functionalities that normally will be provided by an MDM software but we know that most implementations don't have it but what we are trying to do with this is obviously part of the effort for supporting implementation from an admin perspective so what the APK what this app is doing is to let the admin control the update of versions of the apps in their own instance so you choose which version you want your users to have and they will have auto update but from the version say here you decide when to update a version here and not google play so if you YAY and thank you that was really spontaneous so yeah we are very excited to see how this takes into the field and how can we expand this MDM-ish functionalities more on implementation support we removed the limit of offline accounts we had a limit of 3 before there is no limit now we are worried about memories in the devices but that's on you now so we hope that helps it was really requested from the community and then there was another request that is not fancy but it was apparently a bit painful which is that the Android settings were required on all authority but it has its own authority now so those of you that requested it I hope you are happy we think this is going to make a difference as well and then moving on because I'm taking a bit long this is the second web app is the use case configuration web app we are also very excited about this one let's see if I manage to explain it properly what this web app is letting you have a specific app module for your use case something that lets you configure your program and parameters to have a different data entry flow and user experience so for example if you have configured your program this is not a real example but if you have configured your logistics program to use the specific UI developed for it and I will show you a real example right now it's totally integrated in the app it opens that program that you have set in the server this uses the this specific data entry flow and user experience it will open a different screen like this one here this is real but you don't lose the rest of the functionality of the app for the other programs so if you have data sets if you have programs that use the regular user interface that we all know they are all here it's integrated as well as the analytics so we think this is the extensibility right now is really tied into the application but we hope in the next versions this can be more dynamic and more open to external use cases that are developed in the community so this is the real example is the real time stock management module developed together with the LMIS team and his south digitus and what it does is that it allows for real time stock management at that facility level it has there is a lot of work in this module I have to say so it has the barcode scanner up there so the functionalities that it uses from the histore are the same but the way the data entry flow works and the UI is designed is totally different for the use case of stock control so it allows for barcode scanner and it also allows for transactions at distribution, discard and correction of workflow it has the offline capability because it's on top of the app so it uses the SDK and everything that was built in and it allows for possible real time integration with the LMIS so this is not going to be demoed today so I really invite you to join the LMIS session later today at 1pm in auditorium 4 is it correct the app there will be also a stand in the bazaar later I'm sure if you visit them for that you will get very good cookies George they're delicious and then there will be also in the expert launch both the days so please if you are thinking or are interested in logistics at the facility level join our sessions for a proper demo and a proper explanation of the use case that's my last slide Mike over to you to present Tracker I think I'll try out this microphone is this one okay and based on all the chatter it sounded to me like Brenno and George you'll see a lot of participation from the logistics side so I'm Mike for us the product manager for we always say Tracker but actually it's all the individual level data that this team works on whether it's the events or the educational data and Tracker and actually where most of this is functionality is now is within the capture app and so I'll talk to you a bit about that just to say that during this time period 39 and 40 we've had dramatically increased scale for the the implementations for individual data this is showing a slide I think that we've shared before but this has become more and more than 100 countries so not only are there 75 plus government own systems but they are hitting this very large national scale with millions and millions of people being registered 40 50,000 users and what we've had to focus on a lot is making sure that the database can handle it and that the performance is something that will encourage use and would not lead to all of the kind of offline data collection so just I know there's always more to go but we have been doing a lot to try to get the system to be able to handle this kind of load there's been huge improvements to program indicators for example in terms of performance particularly in 240 you'll continue to see more and more of these kind of performance improvements which we hope is a good motivation for upgrading and for moving on to the more recent versions of the capture app and of DHS2 so talking a little bit about this those of you that have been around for a while know that the tracker capture app is quite old and has been something that's with us in our hearts for a long time but we have rebuilt it entirely in the capture app we have almost full parity between the two at this point and this will be the first time that I'm really going to move on let it go so just to give you one sense of a reason why we've been able to redesign the capture app from the ground up meaning that we have to have a lot of time focusing on usability the way that we've been talking about before I'm not going to go into every detail of that but I wanted to show you just from the very simple enrollment screen here on first glance but there's actually so many changes in this to improve for the user who is doesn't have to be a DHS2 expert they're probably somebody very busy we know that they're entering a lot of data trying to make it as easy as possible so adding in little tool tips that tell them the context of what they're doing they're saving a person in a child program in Gelahun or putting a loading button to show that the system actually is doing something when they hit save person we're adding removing all of that context on the left and being able to put the full trail up on the top adding more contextual information that gets pulled from your labels, your configuration that would tell them it's a person it's a new person in program child pulling from your attract entity type so there's really quite a lot of effort that's going into usability trying to make it a much more intuitive product actually many of you in this room contribute to that we have weekly meetings where we go through use cases we talk through user scenarios we present back designs these designs are being taken to the countries where we work often and being tested out so a lot more effort going into this and we hope that that means that it will end up being something that you're really happy to switch to from the tracker capture app giving you a sense of some of the things that are in there that aren't just feature parity but actually completely new having something like an enrollment dashboard where you could see the different stages all at a glance the previous events be able to interact with them individually but maintaining context over on the side that would give information about this person or this track density with the appropriate indicators their profile so a lot kind of a landing page that gives a lot more of the context and overview improving the enrollment widget giving the information not only of where they were enrolled but where they started this program who currently owns the program when it was last updated so a lot of information that can be contextually very useful improvements in scheduling and how that works we've had for quite some time request to make it again much more of a dedicated service to be able to go into schedule an event and not bury that in some kind of menu so we pulled that out it has its own specific landing page so I'll leave aside the usability stuff just to say we also invite you to continue to participate with us on usability there's many times that will ask if we can bring and test out new functionality with you with your users if that's something that's of interest to your programs let us know because we're always looking for new scenarios so then moving on to talk a little bit about working lists the first thing I want to do is back up a little bit about what the working list is this is meant not as analytics this is a tool for the person using capture to have a list of what things they want how do they need to group these things based on what scenarios that matches their work processes so this is a commonly used term in various clinical management systems they want to find the specific people or the specific items they need to follow up with and being able to give them these kinds of tools is going to really improve their experience for the data capture data use so just to show you some of the examples of these features you can for example make a specific list and assign tasks they can be assigned to yourself as a user perhaps you're a manager and you want to see which tasks are assigned to which user so being able to allow the the assignation of these tasks of course it's flexible in terms of what you decide to include in list picking from the the various columns which ones you actually want to show what information to provide and then crucially in the latest release being able to add in data so having not just the attributes in that contextual information but actually data from specific program stages and so you can see for example a working list here where the clinical user wanted to see all of the the children of low birth weight because they have a specific action that they're trying to follow up with these groups you can pull up the data element for low birth weight put in the range that is accepted for that and have generated from your data the list of infants to be able to follow up with these of course can be saved as a specific view and that's what we are encouraging you as the program owner or configuror to do set up some specific working lists for the tasks that that user is going to have saving it so that it's then available for them to easily click a button and get the specific list of tract entities or people that they need so I'll move on from working with us. Ownership analytics is something that has been troubling us I think for a long time especially those of us working on the HIV side of things very challenging I know there's a lot going on here don't worry too much this is really just to show you a single person of course can be enrolled at one clinic and receive services elsewhere and that can happen as just a referral where kind of the ownership of that person remains at the original ord unit but it can also be a transfer and it can be that from then on they start to receive services at a new site a new clinic that's opened or that they've moved etc and so what we've worked with is to be able to include the ability and program indicators to capture this kind of dynamic change so you make the choices based on the indicators you're trying to calculate what level of context you needed did you need to know where they were enrolled where they were registered what currently is the owning ord unit or what was the owning ord unit back in the past in the time period that you are doing the analytics so this is a big step forward for us we hope actually to do even a bit more with this when it comes to the analytics but as of now you can be doing this in your program indicators directly and you'll have a very easy just drop down menu showing you how to choose the analytics context that you want one more word about continuously released I put this up here so that you could get a glance at what we mean when we say continuous release this is the versions that have come out since June 1st of the capture app meaning that we in the app are able to constantly be adding and required features required changes updates fix and in the app hub it would tell you for example update to latest version and it will tell you which version that is it has very easily that you can uninstall the version that you have and again crucially for us we know upgrade processes are very challenging they can be technically very difficult politically very difficult and you don't need to update the back end to in order to upgrade this app and in fact we've done everything we can to make the newest features compatible backwards to 238 which is when the capture app was really coming out meaning that right now if you're not able to get up to 240 in order to take advantage of it most of the new features you can get through the capture app through an update pressing that button is kind of instantaneous it's a very quick and easy painless process I mean you don't ever upgrade again in fact there are a number of things that won't be able to work if you're installing and hoping to get for example the program indicator changes for ownership analytics you would need to upgrade the whole thing but a lot of the kind of user experience usability features things that can change the look and feel of the app those are available backwards compatible so you can have the latest version of capture even if you're on several versions of the app in a second the last thing I want to throw up here was a big thanks to our implementation team that's been working on the design guide for the the individual data for tracker this is something we haven't had for years and years you've all been just making your own approaches to this which is great but we finally have some very detailed information about what considerations there are when you're setting up your program and giving you recommendations about that I will finish up good morning everyone I'll try to use this mic my name is David Kennedy I've just come on board as the new platform product manager I'd like to introduce all of the features that have come onto platform for last year I haven't been here for the whole year so if we go into a little bit more detail so if you want a little bit more detail please come and find me and I'll point you to someone that can explain it a bit better we're diving into a big one here we have a brand new data entry app for aggregate data this has been released now on a brand new technology stack the old app was about 10 years old so it was time for an upgrade we're currently running both the existing old data entry app and the new one at the moment and what we will do is we'll be adding more and more features to the new app and then slowly hopefully people will move across before we can retire the old app so don't panic if you're very at data entry the old one will be around for a while there's some great new features into the new person as you can see similar to the new capture app the top bar has the full context which will stay with you as you scroll down so that you can see which org unit, which period, which data set you're doing so you can maintain the context this one's also been very well received we've got an org unit data filter so if you're browsing the org units and the data set has not been assigned to that specific org unit it will show up with a little cross there so you can't select an org unit that doesn't have the data set attached to it we've added some extra details on the side you can see the minimax limits the history and the audit log without having to change or go into a different screen so you can scroll through and see that extra information as you go and you can also see the validation also on the sidebar there without having to switch context alright there's also a lot of improvements to the offline data sync this was something that we had a lot of requests for there's a lot behind the scenes here that I will not try to explain how it works if you do want a more detailed explanation I'll find someone that can explain it better alright a little bit of a shift we've got now multiple org unit geometries what this means is that for each org unit you can have not just the point location for say where that facility is but also the capture area so you can have an area and a point location or multiple capture areas for different uses to be displayed in the maps and then there's also a crosscut app which will allow you to generate those capture areas so if you don't have the geojson files you can go and generate them with crosscut and upload them to the org unit we also have a cool feature that is integrated with the google earth engine now this allows you to automatically load an org unit geography to the google earth engine and bring in bring in the population data so if you don't have good population data already in the system you can use this service to actually bring that in use it as a denominator for indicators and analytics so here's a little screenshot of how that works you can select the org units link it up and bring in that population data here's a preview you can preview before you load it so you can sense check make sure it looks correct before learning it in there's a new multi select for the text box in the data entry so so this is a very very requested feature happy to say that it's available now one screenshot here as you can see rather than just one choice you can have multiple colors red blue green just red just blue you can clear a filter there's lots and lots of ways that I'm sure that people will love to use this moving to a little bit more superficial not so technical new app icons everyone everyone might be used to the old ones but the new ones there's references to the old ones you'll be able to see some familiarity but now there's some consistency it looks a bit easier hopefully aid the navigation flicking through all of the different apps the apps haven't changed so if you upgrade and you see that the icons have changed don't stress that all the apps have changed with just changing the icons here's another big one the aggregate data exchange service and app we'll have a look at it this is really really powerful new feature this allows you to either transfer aggregate data from one instance to another or within the same instance so this allows you to take tracker data and put it into an aggregate form or actually upgrade upload data to a different instance so if you for example wanted to take tracker data for COVID vaccinations delivered for a certain age group and put that into one aggregate value to upload to an HMIS you can do that through this service it runs at the moment as a service and through the API there is a web app that we are also will be in continuous improvement so at the moment it's there but we'll be adding a lot more features very soon here's a couple of screenshots of how that works in the web app and this will the configuration will be improved a lot over the next coming years we also have improved data integrity checks lots of these these are really powerful to help the data instance managers find out what the data quality issues might be within their instance there's 25 at the moment we are going to keep adding more and more so this allows them to run really quick checks to see where there might be issues with the data and go and find them and fix them so you can see here the interface lots of different choices and again the more and more choices will come to help people clean up the data moving along to job sequencing so this is again a bit more backend but it will allow people to bunch jobs into either parallel or sequential sections so that you can run a whole series of jobs if you need to run analytics before you do something else you can now sequence it set it all off and not have to run each job and wait for it to finish before starting the next one this is a big exciting one for a lot of people the api for dhs2 has gotten very very big very very extensive and that means that it can be hard to find the right place in the api for what you're looking for open api 3 specifications are available which means that you can download the entire api and use a browser like stoplight to go through and see what all the functions are be able to navigate certain sections so if you want to just look at one part of the api not the whole thing you can look at focusing on that one section so hopefully this allows developers to browse the api faster find out more information make more extensible apps this is another one that's quite technical but will be very very exciting for people that have been waiting for it this is event hooks which means that you can set something up to listen for a change in the system without having to go back and check frequently whether that that item has changed at the moment it's available for the metadata and schedule features but this will be coming more and more we'll be moving this to meta users and data itself so this means you can set up an event hook to listen for example when the analytics has finished running and then have an activity either in the console, web hook, Artemis or Kafka and there might be more targets coming soon as well so this is a preview in 40 so that means it is fully featured but only for a couple of metadata elements and we'll be expanding that soon this is another kind of more technical one that might be very exciting for people that have been waiting for it this root API means that you can now access external services that through the DHS2 server where you store the credentials on the server and you don't have to have that external service exposed to the public internet anymore so this allows you to be a little bit more secure allows you to access more external services without worrying about exposing them to the internet and has a lot of expandability options so I think that's me done, I'd like to pass over to Scott Ok, best for last I'm Scott I'm the analyst product manager I'll also respond to Mike or by Austin as well everybody gets us confused David shaved his beard off so I think that's probably clear who David is Before I get into it I just want to say that I am not going to talk about maps and the reason I'm not talking about maps is because there is a mountain of new incredible functionality in the maps app and it deserves its own planetary session which will be tomorrow morning so tomorrow morning we're going to do all maps and you're going to be able to see a lot of the incredible things that have come but don't worry we have lots of other fantastic analytics apps and I'll go through those now so just jumping straight into it a very long requested functionality is now the ability to add custom calculations in the data visualizer application so what does this mean this means that you're a district health officer and your system admin never answers their emails or they don't listen to you and you need a new indicator right so instead of just doing it in Excel now you can just make it make it yourself in DHIs too and you can actually see that once you make the new calculation it's tied to the data dimension so that means it shows up just like other indicators with data elements it can be applied to any different chart type that you have in the data visualizer application and it will be saved to this particular chart but even better it actually can be saved and you can reuse it in other chart types so a few important things to remember here it does not create a new indicator so for all of you CIS admins out there who are kind of like oh crap now they're going to make a ton of new indicators it doesn't make a new indicator don't worry you still have control over that but what it allows them to do is create what we call a calculation that is saved in DHIs too and also able to be pulled in to other charts other analytics that are made in the data visualizer application so you still have your key population or key impact indicators and those are run by CIS admins but you can as a user now make your own calculations that you can use in multiple charts maps well not maps but multiple charts as well it can be applied to any chart type so not just pivot tables but bar, column, pie, whatever you want and of course it will show up on your dashboard once you put it in okay I'm very happy to announce that all of the analytics apps are on the app hub so just as the others have mentioned we'll be able to make continuous improvements and releases to these apps so some bug fixes some small new functionality of course if there's something that requires a back end change then we'll have to wait until the next release but if it's a front end issue we can hopefully continuously release that and make it available to you we have also in the line listing app added legends so you're able to now to your line list so it looks something like this and one fun fact about this ticket is or this functionality is this was actually the oldest ticket or oldest functionality request that we had still in DHIS2 it was made back in 2016 by Lars if you're familiar with our ticketing system it was DHIS-75 and for context we are now at DHIS 15,000 something so the moral of the story is don't give up we will don't be discouraged of course we had to build a whole new application to add this functionality to it but we did eventually get there so keep hanging in okay you're also able to add the schedule date to the line list app so what does this mean this means that you can look at persons who were scheduled for appointments last week but didn't show up and look at persons who are scheduled for appointments next week or next month and you can show those in the line listing app and I'm also very happy to announce that the line listing is available now on dashboards in version 38, 39 and 40 pause for a while I know a lot of folks were getting a little impatient I appreciate your patience and I'm happy to say that now it's time to line this on your dashboards an additional functionality is the ability to add a legend and an icon to the single value chart types so you can see an example here and just like all the other products we're constantly going through a process of improving the user experience making the data come more alive make it more available more easily interpretable and so we understand that then just changing the entire background color hopefully makes it pretty obvious in terms of performance and exactly what the indicator is measuring the icon of course is selected through the icon library in the maintenance app configuring the data element or the indicator we have to talk a little bit about performance we are continuously making performance improvements and investigating performance issues and I want to sincerely thank all of those who come to us with performance issues although we are doing much more rigorous testing you all are using dhis2 in many different ways that we can never test for in different context scenarios scales whatever and there will be performance issues that you might run into that there's just no way for us to necessarily know about giving our test environments or our testing team and over the last year you've been communicating these to us at least quite a few of you have been and we've been trying to make continuous improvements to the analytics performance we've been trying to say that analytics queries are about 25 to 40% faster over 2.35 and we're able to now generate our analytics tables about 40% faster but continue to please communicate to us and number one rule is don't suffer in silence if you run into analytics problems do reach out and I think that is it from me so now thank you Scott all right now we get to do the fun part of the evening morning whatever we do together these days okay so we've just heard a lot of very cool features can we have one more round of applause for all of everybody that went into everything that went into making those I think that was also record time for how quickly we got through all of those features that were released in the last year I think we skipped quite a few as well so definitely look at the release notes and the webinars which go into a bit more detail about what we have introduced in each of the releases so this next section is going to be going to be a little bit interesting because we're actually going to have a little bit of role play we have a few make sure I'm here we have a few actors in this little scenario for you Brian my colleague from the implementation support team at UIO is going to be playing an outreach nurse we have Vittoria who's going to be playing a district health officer and I will be the omniscient narrator slash DHS2 system administrator I will do my best to stay in character but I might contextualize things a little bit for you as well so what we're going to do now is we're going to just weave together a few of the features that you saw here introduced in DHS2 version 39 and version 40 and we're going to show you how those work together in a pseudo-realistic situation or scenario so in order to do that I got to switch the screen here I believe I'm doing this correctly yes it's a little bit blurry perhaps but you should be able to see my screen here now so as your omniscient administrator I am going to be doing a little bit of configuration to get us set up I'm not actually going to be configuring the system but I'll do some apps to install some applications to get the latest versions of the software and then we'll go to our correspondent in the field who is the outreach nurse Brian and that'll be in just a couple minutes but to start us off I'm going to go ahead and install a couple of applications that have been continuously released in DHS2 so to do that I'm going to go to the app management application as we saw earlier this is where you can see a lot of different apps and the new versions that are available so as soon as they're published or released it shows up on my screen okay there we go as soon as a version of an application is released it'll show up here in the app management application you can update your applications independently we'll get back to core apps here in a minute to do some updates there but first I'm going to start with what Scott just introduced which is this line listing application so you'll see I actually already have this installed but you can see the list here all of the versions that have been released of the line listing application and you can go ahead and install it into your system to get that functionality and as Scott mentioned this is available from 238, 239 and 240 so this same version of the application with all the latest features maybe some that are turned on based on the version of the server you're talking to are available there so I've already installed this one I would click a button here to do that I'm actually going to demo that so I just uninstalled it now you can see that I don't have a version installed here and I'm going to click the install button to install the latest version it takes just a couple seconds and there we go we have the line listing application installed into our DHS-2 instance there's one more application that I'd like to install here as well I actually already have this one installed as well but you can see that this is the APK distribution application so I'll do that one in just a moment and the last thing is a very cool feature that Scott just mentioned which is putting line lists onto the dashboard app in order to have this functionality we need to have the latest version of the dashboard app so here in the core app section of the app management app you can see the applications that are built into DHS-2 that have updates available so there's obviously a dashboard application already in this DHS-2 version 40 instance but I can actually go here and we'll see that this one just was released on continuous release last week June 6th with this version so this is after the 40.0.0 release and there is a new version available that I can go ahead and install so if I click install here I'll get the latest version of the dashboard application which allows me to include line listing line lists on my dashboard and with that I think we're all set up I did want to show here also quickly we're not going to use this for the demo but I could also update the version of the Android capture application so you'll see that I already have a version here in my system that is version 100.32.8 the version numbers are continually increasing and each application has different version numbers so usually you just want to go to the latest one but you can go ahead and install that latest one if you wanted to you can keep it on a slightly older version if you wanted to keep some of the if something changed that you didn't like in the interface for some reason you can stay on an older version as well I'm going to show that in the capture app which is also on continuous release and has been for quite some time okay so with that I think I'm going to switch over to my colleague Brian who's actually not in the call here today so I'm going to see if I can get him on the phone see if we can call him in here let's see go ahead and give him a ring Brian are you there can you hear me now it's Brian outreach nerd and I'm going to install my DHIS2 application this is actually my not my first time putting it on but I'm just going to log in here really quickly and while I'm logging in I'm just going to be waiting for the authentication to happen and yes I actually do want to help improve this app this is something that everyone should be doing send some notifications about it configuration and while I'm doing that just thinking about what I have to do today some other things this is a big part of being an outreach nurse is just waiting but as I sync my configuration I can also plan out my route for the day and where I'm going to be going so this will be first my configuration is ready but I also see that I have a software update right now so I'm going to download the software update and I will say yes please please allow from this source and then I will go back will in the background of the application it will be yes I will problem parsing this one that's fine so I'm just going to open up the child program here and then I'm going to see who I have to find today so I'm going to open up my filter here and I'm going to go to my visits today and I'm going to see here that I have Joelle and Martin that I need to go visit so when I go back to my list here I can see that there's also a maps icon at the bottom so I'm going to just quickly check out this map and yes I will allow location while using this app and I can see as I zoom in here that actually they're both pretty close by to me so who do I have here I have Joelle and I have Maria and Martin so first I'm just going to select Martin here and then I'm going to say oh I want to go find how to find Martin so I'm going to open up the maps application here and while it finds Martin it's also going to give me directions for how to find where this house is located so I'm going to ask it to give me directions in Google Maps for how to get there and turns out they're pretty close by because they're just in the auditorium over here so we're just going to walk over here usually I have my bicycle for this part but not today hey Martin here you look like Martin okay well I'm going to ask you some questions about your baby now I hope you don't mind with this live studio audience and everything so I'm just going to click on Martin's name in the card here and now we'll go through the baby postnatal visits so I'll enter in the report date how fat is your baby in grams like 785 yeah metric system stuff breastfeeding no breastfeeding replacement measles no measles but you've received a dose for it yes okay no anti-vaxxers here we're good with that yellow fever dose also good I'm going to give you a vitamin A supplement shouted ARVs nope not for us right now I'm actually really happy to tell you Martin that we have your HIV test results for your child yeah it comes from the PCR and they are negative hey yeah so I'm just going to ask you to add your signature right there if you could yeah beautiful right you're an artist so we're just going to save that up there and now just save the event and that's the last visit I had today so thank you Martin slash Vlad okay now that's not the last thing I had to do today that was my last outreach visit because now I'm going to plan my subsequent day and the next work that I have to do so I'm going to swap over to the capture app can you see the screen here yep so in the capture app I'm actually going to already have this child program and my registration unit up here and you can see the list of all of the different registered patients here in the child program that I have to follow up and see but I have a custom working list here for just children who are low birth weight and have a mental feeding program so that could not be loaded for right now so I will also maybe it's because there we are it's always clear cash or not logged in so I'm just going to go back to the capture app oops capture and then again child program cfc and click low birth weight so now we can see that it's pre-selected for me the date of enrollment is in the last three months or last 90 days the program stage was at birth and the weight was less than 2500 and it had mixed replacement feeding in the child health program so now I can see these are individuals children that I should be following up with tomorrow but it's not the last job that I have to do my work is not complete until it's all documented so part of my job as well is that I have to find my facility tally sheet for mortality and statistics so I'm just going to enter into the data entry app here fortunately these are all the children under 5 languages and say month that occurred so in one case a cute classic process no rabies no cholera some malaria measles, meningitis no plague thankfully and some no rabies typhus etc etc so once I enter in all of these here yellow fever one once I enter this then I can run validation and see what the alerts are that there's a high number of yellow fever and meningitis cases here but then I will also mark it complete and that's my day for today so hopefully someone will give me good feedback on the data that I have collected and I will be back we're back at the system administration level so I'm pulling that up now hopefully we can get it on the screen ok great so we were just here I forgot to demonstrate the actual upload of the application to install the version so I am omniscient but I do get impatient and skip something sometimes so we'll demonstrate just here quickly that you have of the Android capture application that you can upload in this APK distribution app, and so this will allow you to specify the versions of the Android application that the users in your system will get notified about, which is a very useful feature, I think. We saw the update notification that Brian got when he was out in the field. So the last thing I'm going to demonstrate here as well is the data exchange application. So we just saw some data come in through a tracker program, which is individual level data, but sometimes you want to aggregate that and put it into the aggregate data model, either within this DHS2 instance itself, so moving it from a program indicator or a program data in the program to a number in the aggregate data model, or potentially to send it to an external system. Maybe you have a tracker system and you want to aggregate your tracker data and send it to the HMIS. This is something that can now be done using the data exchange service and the data exchange application. So I actually have already configured one of these exchanges, and here I can see what data will be sent or will be aggregated. This is taking tracker data and it's sending it to an aggregate data element. I have the number of OQV-3 doses given in each of the chiefdoms in Sierra Leone, in this case, so you can actually go through and review all of this data manually. You can also schedule this so that I could schedule this so that it would run nightly, for example, or run after maybe once a month. I want to send my tracker data to HMIS or to another repository somewhere. Once I've reviewed this and made sure that it's okay, I'm going to click submit, so it asks me to confirm what data I'm submitting. Again, in this case, we're doing an internal data exchange, so we're actually aggregating the tracker data within this DHS2 system and putting it into the data elements in the aggregate model within the same system. So I'm going to go ahead and do that, and it's going to submit, and it will show that in this case, this data was already created, but I've updated all of those data values for the aggregation of the individual level data over the last 12 months, and that's now in the aggregate data model, and I can use all of my visualization tools. I can correlate that with other data in my HMIS without needing to query the individual level data directly using a program indicator, for example. Now we're going to go back to someone who's doing a little bit of analytics on this system, so with that I would like to introduce our district health officer, Vito, to come up on to her office and demonstrate a little bit how to use the data that we've collected in the field and how to use that at the district or the national level. Vito. Yeah, not Brian, no, fantastic job, but I heard you, what are you doing in surgery? What do you mean they lost the register? No, no, no, no, it's okay, it's okay, just try to find it. Yeah, no, no, is it there? No, don't pass it, no, Brian, Brian, Brian, no, don't pass him, Brian, no, no, Brian, Brian, you're fine, yay, hi, no, it's fantastic, fantastic to hear from you, no, lovely. Yeah, no, every day I check, yes, yes, they enter weekly, yes, I check every day to check that they don't enter more often, actually, yes, yes, beautiful, yeah, yeah, no, we're doing great, actually, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll keep you updated, thank you, thank you, cheers. I have not entered or checked a time, months probably, sure, okay, so thankfully I actually like follow a little bit when my admin dials me, but let check a little bit, yeah, that's actually, let's follow what admin says, okay, so I have here my data that I had done a while ago, it's not found, that's fantastic, okay, so I had to check some, some immunization data, because that's supposed to be my job normally, I've got my glasses, but it's okay, actually I've got my glasses, actually my glasses are there because the demo is gone, okay, so I have my OPV because we're doing great, apparently, so I had some deaths here and I've heard that they were doing already some calculations, so I might add it there, but unfortunately they told me that I don't have anything on coverage, so just very quickly, oh, the pressure, how do you do it? I think I have to have OPV data, so that one, I know, but wait, and of course for coverage you need a population under five, there you go, there you go, that's a good one, and then times a hundred, and then I call it, let me check the formula because you never know, all right, and then OPV3 coverage, okay, then I save it, and then I update it as well, so yeah, I should have everything there, so how do we even have high coverage that we have children, we need to find out, but doing great, doing great, not doing amazing, yeah, okay, just let me quickly check what's going on here, so let me remove that, let me remove that, and I think we should go down there, let's do a quarter since it's been a while, I haven't actually not finished, okay, and let me check if I can do something like that because I've heard that I can actually, I can actually change it, yeah, no, no, it doesn't work like that, there you go, there you go, and I heard that I can actually change and do it properly, all right, we're not doing amazing, but we can get there, better the last year though, nonetheless, okay, we might have a problem here, okay, just let me save it a little second, okay, let me go here, got to love when they change all the icons, okay, so we're doing great here, okay, so actually something that I have to thank Admin again, remind me later, the line list, because I knew that something was dodgy here, there you go, there you go, and then the OPV3 coverage, oh, do you want me, there you go, I can't find it as usual, oh, whatever, I'm going to tell Brian to add it, okay, so actually going to call Brian just a second because it looks like there's some work to do, Brian, so yeah, yeah, I already told you to get out of there, what do you mean they lost the surgeon now, no, not get out, we need to like schedule some more visits, just get out of there already, we need to talk. Thank you very much to Vito and Brian, our two actors today, big round of applause, we had a volunteer from the audience as well who was a very proud father, I don't want to say thank you also to Marta Vila and Grant who did a great job putting all of this together, it was a little bit last minute, but we're excited to try something, try something a little bit different to weave the different features together, so thank you to Marta and Grant and with that, I think we are done for the morning and we are moving on to lunch, so is there an announcement before we move to lunch? Thank you everyone for your attention and for joining us on this journey through DHS too.