Year: 2018

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An Opinionated Approach to OpenMRS Customization

This is my opinionated guide to OpenMRS (http://openmrs.org) customization for multiple sites, may work for a single site if developer resources are available. This guide is based on 3 years working with the UgandaEMR distribution (https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/UgandaEMR+Distribution) for the Ministry of Health of Uganda, currently in 650 sites across the country (December 2017). Background to OpenMRS  […]

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Crowdsourcing Validation Rules for Uganda National ID

I am curious about the ability to validate that the Uganda National Identification Number (NIN) is well formed. However this does not validate that the NIN actually belongs to the person presenting it or that it is correct. The rules that I have been able to gleam are: Must be 14 characters long First character is […]

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Harvest Money Expo – What Next for Agribusiness in Uganda?

Over the weekend, I took time to go to the Harvest Money Expo (https://www.newvision.co.ug/tag/harvest-money-expo/) with the aim of getting some ideas to stimulate my mind with agribusiness opportunities. I awas fortunate to also meet with Robert Kabushenga, Dr Kisamba Mugerwa and Hon. Rosemary Sseninde. I did some personal introspection on why agribusiness for a technology […]

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Boda boda registration – An approach for KCCA

There are job advertisements going all around social media for enumerators to support an exercise to register boda-boda drivers in Kampala city. These are thoughts on how the implementation can be done in a cost-effective manner, getting a reasonable return for the investment. Stakeholder engagement and management – outline the benefits of the registration to […]

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Software Delivery Skills Plan 2018

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail! ~Benjamin Franklin A new year is upon me, and looking over the horizon I am looking to do the following work streams to help better my development skills 1. Work with a new age Javascript framework – vue.js seems the rage, this is also working […]

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