Papua New Guinea DHIS2 Community

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For new members supporting the introduction of DHIS2 in Papua New Guinea.
A place to connect, share and learn as we expand DHIS2 in PNG

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It’s great to have this country CoP setup.
My take to strengthen our push for DHIS2 presence in PNG and build capability is to;
1: Identify those who are willing to be Developers and Administrators.
2: These developers have to be in-country
3: Organise Developers/Administrators in-house training as a go-bye to set the pathway and once they have a fair idea about DHIS2, they can use the DHIS2 Academy…

Once we have these core technical expertise, they can be called upon to develop/provide administrator support whenever new modules/systems arise and especially within the Digital Health space.

Regards
Niwel Abel

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Great points Niwel. There is great interest and momentum in the PNG Digital Health community to build skills and knowledge of DHIS2 and great leadership from the national programs to adopt the platform for key initiatives and so we look forward to more of our the PNG community joining here and utilizing the platform to share and learn as we build the DHIS2 community to manage the platform and it’s introduction in PNG.

For those that are new here, we highly recommend this Online Course from the Academy as your first stop: Introduction to DHIS2

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This is fantastic Poruan. I think it is a good idea to make use of the existing CoP site. Hopefully the PNG community will continue to build. I have some people who have contacted us from the provinces (PHAs) who are interested in connecting too. I will link them in. Regards, Michael

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Hello and good morning Dr.Poruan and thank you for setting this up.

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Hello and good morning Michael, Is there a possibility for DHIS2 to give us a training URL so that we can be able to continue building our knowledge to customize and configure DHIS 2. This may only be for training purposes.

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There were some people in PNG trained on systems administrators. DHIS2 is also part of a global good and we need to find ways to get those who were trained to continue conversations on this platform in PNG.

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Hi Benjamin, Nice to hear from you. All of the information regarding both online and in-person training academies and resources are available via the main DHIS2 website

The schedule also gives you a link to all the free online courses. (scroll about halfway down)

Hope this helps. Or let me know if it doesn’t.
Kind regards,
Michael

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Great to see you here Ben!

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Thanks for sharing these links Michael!

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Thanks Dr.Poruan. I’m happy to be part of this great Community of Practice Group.

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Hi Michael, I have completed all the basic DHIS2 training and now able to customize and Configure forms onto the DHIS2 platform using the maintenance app. I only need access to a training platform where I can continue to harness my skills.

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Hi Benjamin, Sorry for the slow reply. I have been travelling.
I believe that you can go to DHIS2 play:
http://play.dhis2.org/
I have shared these links with others in PNG too.
It resets every 24 hours.
There are multiple copies of the play instances. So if you have any trouble, you can try an alternative instance and it should work ok.
Regards,
Michael

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Thanks Michael. I appreciate this.

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There were a good number of people certified as system admin, end users and some Managers trained on DHIS2 at Grand Papua Hotel. Are there some still around so that we can email them the link to join the DHIS2 CoP.

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Hi Benjamin and team.

I’ve only completed the online trainings for DHIS2 through the academy. If there are any in person training opportunities, please let me know. I’m interested in and following the implementer learning path. I’ve also gone ahead to guide a final year student at UOT last year 2024 to complete her final year project on DHIS2 which I’m happy to share with the team her final year project report.

I’m in talks with Mr. Rock Abulaka at UPNG to see if I can assist 5 more final year students at UPNG to utilize DHIS2 for their final year projects this year. All these efforts, of course goes towards building and strengthening DHIS2 CoP in PNG. The National STIs and HIV Program NDOH see the value that DHIS2 brings to public health disease surveillance.

Sylver

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Welcome aboard the DHIS2 CoP for PNG. Indeed its great to hear of some of your engagement with DHIS2. DHIS2 is a great platform. You are definitely on the right track. There are a lot of materials on the DHIS2 documentation that you can open and read from. The DHIS2 platform offers so much.

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Hello Michael, Is it possible to request for a Tracker Configuration Training in PNG. On the DHIS2 schedule calendar I can see that their is one that will be done in May in Jordan.

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Hi Sylver, This may be a site worth Investigating.Academy Schedule - DHIS2

Michael also posted this as well on top.

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Hi Benjamin, This is certainly something I have discussed before with you and others and I would love to see it happen. I think it would be good to open it up to other Pacific countries as well as I think there would be a lot of interest and opportunities for sharing experiences, especially from Vanuatu and the Solomons. However, to hold a specific one in PNG/Pacific that is in addition to what is listed in the academy schedule this year would require a donor to fund it. I have previously discussed this with several donors who were interested, but it has never got off the ground. If there is enough interest locally, I think you would get more momentum if it was pushed to donors from departments and agencies in-country. The other issue would be ensuring that trainers and facilitators are available to assist given they have quite a full schedule. But I would be happy to discuss ideas further with you. Hope you are well and apologies again for the slow response. Michael

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