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[Lars Kristian Roland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

there will be two parallel mobile clients, one mobile browser solution 
and one J2ME based solution. The J2ME solution has an offline function 
so you don't have to be online all the time, while the mobile browsing 
version will require you to be online when you're using it. The J2ME 
version needs to either be online or on SMS while reporting. Because the 
J2ME caches the forms, in some ways it's more but also less flexible 
than the mobile browser version.

LIke Knut is saying first mobile browser version is planned to be 
limited to Aggregate Facility data, but Name Based Activity will follow 
it quickly (and be dependent on requirements from the various 
countries). Your input is there very valuable to us.

The J2ME version available at the same time supports both.

Will the mobile coverage in the usage area be good enough to support a 
browser based solution? Would a fallback to SMS be useful at all? (the 
prefered solution is that GPRS is always used, as it's simpler to deploy)

Are you planning a solution for aggregate facility data only, or do you 
want to use the name based activity (program) features also?

Best regards,
Lars Roland (I'm working with Knut as part of the mobile team).


On 14.09.2011 19:16, Knut Staring wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Muhire Andrew <muhireandrew@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:muhireandrew@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Dear team,
>                       In Dar es salaam workshop some of the countries
>     were doing pilot on using Mobile  reporting and Benificiary and
>     programs features  in dhis2 [how is it running in the countries
>     that has started using it] ? Tanzania how is it? I think  this
>     will be our next step in Rwanda!
>     How can i link with the team that is working on mobile part?
>
>
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> The existing mobile solutions are based on J2ME clients, and are 
> already quite useful. The field introduction has so far mostly been 
> SMS based, but we feel that mobile internet (GPRS, 3G) will be a 
> better option in most cases. It is still early days, and I am involved 
> in the planning of future solutions. We hope to have a first version 
> of a WAP or Opera Mini type solution for simple facility reporting 
> (aggregate date) as part of the 2.5 release in October. Quite a bit 
> more development is planned for the next 6 months, which will also 
> touch on name based solutions (DHIS Tracker).
>
> You should probably await these new developments, becasue they will 
> hopefully be both more stable and flexible than the current solution. 
> Also, before introducing any mobile solutions, it is quite important 
> to implement a solid DHIS2 back bone, and make sure the roll out works 
> well. So I think this should wait until after the switch to DHIS2 as 
> the new HMIS.
>
> Knut


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