DCI - Interoperability in Action #1: Social Protection Information System - Interacting with CRVS

About the Digital Convergence Initiative The Digital Convergence Initiative (DCI)1 is a joint effort by USP2030 members, governments, development partners, civil society, and the private sector to support national social protection systems to advance meaningful data exchange via standards-based interoperability. Interoperability in Action Interoperability in Action is a DCI workshop series for the development and consensus building on standards for integrated social protection information systems. This series brings together social protection practitioners and information technology experts from government agencies, private sector, open-source software solution providers and international organisations. These workshops are a forum to exchange use cases, interfaces (API & data standards), and experiences regarding the interoperability of systems through the use case scenarios and technical demonstration in a controlled environment. The workshops will be conducted virtually, with each session highlighting a specific system (e.g., ID, CRVS, Payment) interoperability capability scenario with Social Protection beneficiary Management Information System (SP-MIS). Each session is designed to facilitate a deep dive into process, functional and technical aspects of interoperability between the systems. Structure of the session The first workshop will discuss some use cases of interoperability between Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System (CRVS) and SP-MIS systems, as well as demonstrate the Integration of SP-MIS with OpenCRVS. The demonstration will highlight the value of interoperability for delivering social protection programs. The workshop will encourage open discussion and feedback on various aspects including use cases, data fields and technical interfaces (API). We also encourage inputs regarding availability of different vendors of open-source solutions, which can be used for interoperability of SP-MIS and CRVS domains, thus enabling consensus building on standards.