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BROWSING: December 2008

Supporting Health-Related Open Source 29 December 2008

In a recent post about Linux distributions and Open Source projects, Celeste Lyn Paul writes:
The open source operating system experience exists in pieces, scattered across a world of projects and technologies. Distributions exist because they attempt to create a unified experience from the bits and pieces of open source functionality out in that world, while [...]

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iHRIS Plan Pilot in Namibia 17 December 2008

As many low-resource countries make strides in adoption of computerized human resource information systems (HRIS), their demands on the data increase. With greater detail available on the existing health workforce, clients now wish to use historical data to project their workforce needs into the next year, five years, twenty years and beyond. Successful workforce projections [...]

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Data Technical Briefs Now Available in Spanish 9 December 2008

Our two technical briefs, Building the Bridge from Human Resources Data to Effective Decisions and Data Quality Considerations in Human Resource Information System Strengthening, are now available in Spanish-language versions, as well as French and English. All technical briefs can be downloaded from the Publications page on the Capacity Project’s website.

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