Monthly Updates

Monthly Report for May 2008

• Functional Requirements and Software Development

The LMI Wiki has been developed and is fully functional. The code and the document for that application are available on http://wiki.ihris.org/wiki/index.php/Last_Mile_Initiative. Drafts for the voice prompt system requirements and the menu driven system requirements have been posted on the Wiki.

Discussions on equipment and software platform specifications with Qualcomm have been ongoing during the month of May. Partner Updates

Dave and Vanessa attended the Global Health Council in DC during the week of 27 May. Dave gave a talk on Open Source and Community Building and mentioned LMI at a roundtable while Qualcomm announced our partnership for the LMI project. It was at that same event that Vanessa and Dave had the opportunity to meet with Kim.

We are glad to report that our press plan has been approved by Qualcomm and look forward to SRA’s review and feedback.

We have scheduled bi-weekly update calls with Qualcomm every other week on Thursday at 11am EST. If you are available for the call on 19 June, it would be wonderful for everyone to touch base. You are of course invited to all future calls as well.

We are preparing to post all project documents (including weekly updates) on the Wiki. This is a process we have already used in Uganda and which turned out to be successful there.

• Operations

Internally, we have submitted paper timesheets for all work done prior to 05.2008 and IntraHealth’s contracts unit has submitted them to SRA along with monthly invoices. We thank you for your feedback on the submitted monthly invoice and timesheets for all work done prior to 05.2008 and will make sure to follow your comments/requests.

Now that we have the sets of functional requirements posted on the Wiki, we look forward to discussing with you how we can get SRA’s approval so that we can shift both sets to “final” status per the requirements of the payment schedule. Please note the use cases will inevitably change in small ways during the development process.

Scopes of work for travel for August and September are currently under development.

Monthly Report for June 2008

• Work Performed

Following discussions on equipment and software platform specifications with Qualcomm, we have officially notified Qualcomm of our decision to use Java rather than Brew.

We are glad that our press plan has been approved both by SRA and Qualcomm.

It was great to have you on our bi-weekly update calls with Qualcomm and to speak directly with you in the third week of June. If you are available for further calls with Qualcomm, you are of course invited as well.

Dave has been working on redoing the women’s contraceptive and children’s registry screens.

Our hardware list has been sent to and reviewed by Qualcomm which expressed its interest in supporting this equipment selection.

The LMI Wiki has been developed and is now fully functional. Drafts for the voice prompt system requirements and the menu driven system requirements have been posted on the Wiki. All further project documents will also be posted there. Upcoming Work

Vanessa is finalizing her scope of work and activity plan for her upcoming travel to Rwanda in late July, early August and is working on the draft and final Pilot Test Plans which will be developed during the aforementioned trip.

We are submitting a complete report which includes the use cases and the original forms so that we can shift both sets to “final” status per the requirements of the payment schedule. Please note the use cases will inevitably change in small ways during the development process.

• Issues

We are currently uncertain of the specific hardware that Rwandatel currently has and/or will have available to meet our equipment selection but are planning on clarifying this issue in the next month.

• Percentage of Work Done

In order to provide you with an accurate representation of the percentage of work completed versus percentage of schedule expended versus percentage of budget expended, we kindly ask for your understanding if we submit it in an upcoming weekly update so that, in the meantime, we hope you will have approved the revised activity plan sent to you by Vanessa on 6/19/2008.