Global Goods Guidebook

With the Global Goods Guidebook, Digital Square is showcasing some of the emergent and established global goods that have been invested or deployed as a result of our unique, open approach. The Digital Investment Principles have described the need for donors to align around scalable, sustainable, accessible, interoperable, and evidence-based digital health global goods that meet country priorities. Digital health global public goods have an important role to play in moving the needle from a past era of digital health donor funding characterized by pilots and other proof-of-concept demonstrations to a future guided by investments in country-led and country-managed digital health strategies and systems that can be independently operated, expanded, and sustained by host governments and local partners over time.

The global health community needs to move away from the current practice of single application solutions to a more strategic approach that acts holistically with both current country priorities and long-term goals for health system strengthening. By better coordinating the development of digital health global goods, such as those presented in this guidebook, stakeholders involved in digital health can reduce duplication and ensure that platforms are not only more aligned with priorities but that they strengthen national systems

This Global Goods guidebook focuses a living document with regular revisions. The information in this guidebook has been provided by the global goods themselves and has not been validated by Digital Square for accuracy.

Endorsements

The Guidebook has been endorsed by:

• BMGF
• Bayer Foundation
• DIAL
• DPGA
• GIZ
• NORAD
• The ELMA Philanthropies
• UNICEF
• USAID

Version 4.0

The Global Goods Guidebook Version 4.0 is a compendium of Digital Square-approved software tools and technologies from the Notice G0 cycle. Produced by Digital Square, the guidebook is a living document which catalogs existing Digital Square–approved global goods, defines the product attributes of each global good, and provides personas to explain how to best leverage the guidebook to provide direction in making decisions on selecting global goods to support a health project. Version 4.0 includes several new sections which reflect the current and evolving needs of the digital health ecosystem: standards and interoperability, security and data-privacy, and the benefits of using global goods.

Download Global Goods Guidebook V4.0 here.

Release Date: May 25, 2023

Version 3.0

The Global Goods Guidebook showcases 35 emergent and established global goods that are approved for investment through Digital Square and additional information on public goods| digital public goods. By better coordinating the development of digital health global goods, such as those presented in the guidebook, stakeholders involved in digital health can reduce duplication and ensure that platforms are not only more aligned with national priorities but that they strengthen health systems.

Download Global Goods Guidebook V3.0 here.

Release Date: June 10, 2022

Version 2.0

This edition focuses on software global goods that are approved for investments through Digital Square and introduces the concept of “shelfreadiness” as well as highlights some of the global goods adaptations to COVID-19.

Download Global Goods Guidebook V2.0 here.

Release Date: March 15, 2021

Version 1.0

In this inaugural edition (version 1.0), we have limited consideration to global goods that are approved for investments through Digital Square. Future iterations will be more comprehensive in scope, and the eligibility criteria for inclusion in the guidebook will be developed in consultation with the Digital Health & Interoperability Working Group (DH&I WG) of the Health Data Collaborative. With this guidebook, Digital Square is showcasing some of the emergent and established global goods that have been invested or deployed as a result of our unique, open approach.

Table Of Contents

The guidebook's table of contents is arranged by the World Health Organization’s Classification of Digital Health Interventions v1.0 system categories.

This is a high level list of the WHO classifications included in the TOC of the Global Goods Guidebook v1

• Civil Registration and Vital Statistics • B (Page 16)

    *Resource : OpenCRVS

• Clinical Terminology and Classifications • E (Page 18)

    *Resource : Open Concept Lab 

• Community-Based Information System • F (Pages 20 - 22)

    *Resource : CommCare
                Community Health Toolkit

• Data Interchange Interoperability and Accessibility • G (Page 24)

    *Resource : OpenHIM

• Electronic Medical Records • H (Page 26 - 30)

    *Resource : Bahmni
                OpenMRS
                OpenSRP

• Knowledge Management System • Q (Page 32)

    *Resource : Digital Health Atlas

• Health Finance And Insurance Information System Core Role . M (Page 34)

    *Resource : openIMIS

• Health Management Information System • N (Page 36)

    *Resource : DHIS2

• Human Resource Information System • O (Page 38)

    *Resource : iHRIS

• Laboratory and Diagnostics Information System • R (Pages 40 - 42)

    *Resource : Child Growth Monitor
                OpenLabConnect

• Logistics Management Information System • T (Page 44)

    *Resource : OpenLMIS

• Public Health and Disease Surveillance • V (Pages 46 - 48)

    *Resource : Reveal
                SORMAS

• Shared Health Record and Health Information Repositories • X (Page 50)

    *Resource : Hearth

• Appendix: <i>Global Good Maturity Model</i> (Page 52)
• Appendix: OpenHIE (Page 53)

Download Global Goods Guidebook V1.0 here.

Release Date: May 28, 2019