👋 Welcome to the DPG community!

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This GitHub repository and Discussions is primarily a place for the community of DPG Product Owners to discuss and share knowledge. If you're considering becoming a DPG, you're welcome too! Please feel free to ask questions you’re wondering about, engage with other community members, and share ideas, resources, opportunities, etc. To get started, kindly comment below with an introduction of yourself and tell us about your work on digital public goods.

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• 📣 Announcements —get the latest news and activities from the DPGA and its members.
• 💬 General Conversation —share any ideas, wins, updates from your DPG, or topics you would like to discuss.
• 🔥 Opportunites —get connected to events, funds, awards, contributions, and more.
• ☎️ Support Forum —ask the DPG community for help and find previously answered questions.

If you are not yet a recognized digital public good, you should consider applying! You can review the eligibility requirements and use the DPG Wiki as a guide to get started.

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📋 This is a community we build together, please be welcoming and open-minded. By participating in this space you agree to our Code of Conduct.

[askanter128]

Hello, everyone! I direct CIEL and produce an open source dictionary for health information systems in low and middle income countries. We are the basis of health data interoperability in many countries. We might not be considered very sexy or impactful, but it is foundational public goods like updated dictionaries mapped to standards that make health information systems work together and for the data collected to be understandable an useful to others, including patients!

The Columbia International eHealth Laboratory (CIEL) is based in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University in New York, USA. CIEL was initially formed as a collaboration between DBMI, the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health and the Earth Institute supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Directed by Andrew S. Kanter, MD MPH, CIEL helped develop and implement health information systems for the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in ten countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. With the completion of MVP, CIEL continued to support open source health initiatives globally via the OpenMRS community.

CIEL currently provides terminology services to OpenMRS and others via the CIEL concept dictionary. This dictionary source contains over 50,000 concepts mapped to standardized code systems including ICD-10-WHO, SNOMED CT and many others. CIEL is updated on a monthly basis and is primarily distributed via the Open Concept Lab.

[Mayaleeeee]

Hello Everyone 👋🏾 My name is Aishat Muibudeen (preferred - Maya).

I'm an Open-Source Product Designer and UX Researcher. I'm also a Technical Steering Committee (TSC) member, a Design Maintainer, and part of the Code of Conduct (CoC) lead Committee at AsyncAPI Initiative, an Open-Source Community. In these roles, I coordinate and manage the community of designers and oversee design and research activities related to user experience. I also uphold ethical guidelines and ensure adherence to our community's Code of Conduct, fostering a safe and inclusive environment for all members.

I recently discovered the Digital Public Goods Organization and am interested in contributing my skills to support the community in any way I can!

[BolajiAyodeji]

Hi everyone! 👋🏾

Bolaji here! I work with the Secretariat Team at the Digital Public Goods Alliance. As the DPG Evangelist and Technical Coordinator, I leverage my passion for open source and technical background to assess DPG applications, educate stakeholders about the DPG Standard and DPG application process, provide support and advocate for open source projects seeking recognition as digital public goods, participate in strategic planning to improve the application processes and manage relationships with the DPG community. Looking forward to interacting with all the amazing contributors to the DPG community!