OpenEMIS, or Open Education Management Information System (EMIS), is an Education Management Information System for the education sector. Its main purpose is to collect, analyze, and report data related to the management of educational activities. Initially conceived by

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

, OpenEMIS serves as a response to Member States’ need in the area of tools for educational strategic planning.

History

OpenEMIS is an initiative launched by

. The initiative is in line with UNESCO's effort to promote EMIS to address the issues of access, equity, quality, and relevance in education and subsequent gaps between Member States in providing an adequate decision support system since early 2000s, in keeping with the

Education for All The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

goals adopted in Dakar in 2000. OpenEMIS was conceived to be a royalty-free software that can be customized to meet the specific needs of implementing countries, without conditions or restrictions for use,"New, open source database helps track country progress in education".

. Retrieved 11 July 2016. with the purpose of encouraging country-level capacity development and helping countries upgrade their local skills for managing the tool."OpenEMIS: An Open-Sourced Education Management Information Systems (EMIS)".
Retrieved 11 July 2016. The initiative is coordinated by UNESCO in partnership with a

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(NPO), Community Systems Foundation (CSF) for the implementation and technical support since 2012.

Architecture

OpenEMIS is a suite of interrelated software that supports data collection (Survey; Classroom; Staffroom), management (Core; School; Integrator), and analysis (Visualizer; Monitoring; Dashboard; Analyzer; DataManager; Profiles). Each application is designed to provide unique standalone features to support different information management requirements at different levels. These features could be customized and integrated with existing systems.

Implementation

OpenEMIS is being implemented in the following countries. In nearly all cases, the Ministry of Education is central to implementation, with support and engagement with a wide range of stakeholders: * Malaysia (

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, 2012–present) * Grenada ( OECS, 2013–present) * St. Vincent and the Grenadines ( OECS, 2013–present) * Belize (Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports & Culture of

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, 2014–present) * Jordan (

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

, 2014–present) * Maldives (Ministry of Education of

Maldives Maldives (, ; dv, ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ, translit=Dhivehi Raajje, ), officially the Republic of Maldives ( dv, ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާ, translit=Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa, label=none, ), is an archipelag ...

, 2015–present) * Turks and Caicos Islands (Ministry of Education of

, 2016–present) * Kyrgyz Republic (Ministry of Education

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, 2019–present)

Support

Support is available to implementing countries with all aspects of country implementation from the technical support team. Support activities include services for: Policy and Planning; Analysis; Implementation; Custom Software Development; Training; and others as needed. System set up may involve cost for additional technical support for setup, configuration, migration, and capacity building."What is the cost of OpenEMIS?"
OpenEMIS. Retrieved 11 July 2016.

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