This year has been an amazing year for EyeSeeTea. We have been working on more than 20 impactful projects which contribute to make the world a better place. We attended the annual DHIS2 conference in Oslo and brough back three awards and so much feedback and ideas. One of the projects we support won a so deserved Trifermed award. And we have consolidated our amazing team and improved the ways we can learn from each other.
And the DAC2024 app competition winner is…
Metadata Sync, our metadata & data synchronization solution for DHIS2, has been the winner of the 2024 DHIS App Competition. You can download the app from the DHIS2 App Hub and check the video tutorials and the text documentation on Metadata Sync website. Code source available on the repo.
We also presented three posters, spoke in two sessions and received two awards for the most active on social media and CoP activity winner. And the best of all: we had the opportunity to learn from the community and meet amazing people!
You can read more about our DAC2024 participation in our blog post.
An award to fight Chagas
The Trifermed awards recognize outstanding contributions to healthcare, driving social responsibility and ethical practices within the sector. One of this year awardees is Dr. Albajar, a researcher we have worked with and admired for a long time. He is a Spanish-Brazilian physician and researcher specializing in Neglected Tropical Diseases at WHO and responsible for the control of Chagas disease at WHO. For more than two decades he has been fighting against Chagas, one of the great neglected diseases.
From the very beginning, the Chagas Disease Control Program has been committed to cooperation and interoperability. One of the tools to achieve this has been the Unified Data Platform (WIDP), which is now used by a variety of departments at the WHO and, as Dr. Albajar points out, “is the result of a pioneering open source big data project, which since 2011 has been progressively developed with he invaluable collaboration of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, EyeSeeTea and several other institutions and organizations”.
You can read more in our blog post.
Our DHIS2 Suite
We have developed our own DHIS2 tools for more than 10 years, sharing them with the community so make DHIS2 even easier and quicker to use.
We think some of these tools, such as Metadata Sync, Bulk Load or Training app can be very useful to the community. For that reason, we are increasing our efforts to improve them and to communicate to the community how they can be of use to them.
This year we have grouped all of these tools under what we called our “EyeSeeTea DHIS2 Suite”, so it is easier to access all the apps we have developed.
Want to know more? Keep reading!
New projects with a major impact
We are so proud of the more than 20 impactful projects we work with our amazing partners! We’d very happily explain all of them, but as we don’t want to make this post so long, we will select just some of the newest ones. However, we’d like to thank all of our partners for tha incredible work they do: WHO, Simprints, Resolve to Save Lives, MSF, Samaritan’s Purse, CNB, NRC, PSI and Path.
ZEBRA
Zebra is a state of the art outbreak surveillance system designed to seamlessly integrate with the Zambia National Public Health Institute. In partnership with Resolve to Save Lives, we have developed an online DHIS2 platform that provides visibility into outbreaks across the country allowing for a faster and better response.
SIMPRINTS
Simprints and EyeSeeTea are working together to track the new vaccination against malaria, in partnership with Ghana Health Service, with support from Gavi, Arm, and The Steele Foundation for Hope. Integrating our applications, we’re strengthening the data tracking systems to optimise the rollout of the malaria vaccine in two regions of Ghana using a state-of-the-art biometrics mobile solution. You can read more in our blog post
UHC Watch
Universal Health Coverage means that all people have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship. To achieve this, information on the current status of UHC around the world is key. This is the aim of the Universal Health Coverage Policy Watch (UHCPW), a public platform providing up-to-date information on coverage policy in Europe and central Asia. It has been designed by the WHO Barcelona Office, a centre of excellence in health financing for universal health coverage (UHC). EyeSeeTea and Lushomo have implemented it. You can read more in our blog post
New blog, youtube channels and socials!
This year we have increased our communications efforts. We are being more active in the amazing CoP, with a brand new EyeSeeTea account. We also participated in the amazing End of The Year Event and a developers meetup to discuss our DHIS2 Suite.
We also have new social media accounts, both in Mastodon and BlueSky, and launched a LinkedIn newsletter.
We are redesigning our website with new and updated content and launched a blog to share news and valuable resources for the community.
We are also improving the documentation of our EyeSeeTea DHIS2 Suite, with new landing sites, Github wikis and videos. During 2025 we will be uploading much more content to our new Youtube Channel.
Our team around the world
We will finish 2024 with 24 team members, and will start 2025 being 25! We’re more than ever a multinational team. We are from 10 countries, in 4 different continents and 6 timezones. We are also so happy that this year 8 people have been promoted so we have a seniority increase. We still need to grow a little because we are working on new projects, so we’re hiring 2 people: a sysadmin and an Android developer!
We are also very satisfied with our senior-junior mentorships, coding and metadata dojos, we are learning a lot from each other!
And we have improved our internal communication so that everyone knows more about what is going on, including absolute transparency about our budget an accounts. And last, but not least, we are improving our onboarding and offboarding processes thanks to our new HR team.
If you want to know more about our culture and values, read this blog post.
Hoping 2025 is at least such an amazing year for us and for you. Happy 2025!
